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Irrational or Rational? Time to Rethink Our Understanding of Financially Responsible Behavior Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ariane Agunsoye, Hayley James
Models of finance rationality expect individuals to actively prepare for retirement by consistently investing and building a diversified asset portfolio, with any behavior deviating from these expe...
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Finding Work in the Age of LGBTQ + Equalities: Labor Market Experiences of Queer and Trans Workers in Deindustrializing Cities Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Suzanne Mills, Natalie Oswin
Despite legal protections and growing acceptance in many industrialized countries, LGBTQ + workers continue to face considerable employment disadvantage. We explain this contradiction by detailing ...
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Beating the Casino: Conceptualizing an Anchoring-based Third Route to Regional Development Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Huiwen Gong, Zhen Yu, Christian Binz, Bernhard Truffer
The development of new industries in peripheral regions has gained renewed attention recently. Yet, the processes through which peripheral regions can mobilize external resources and capabilities, ...
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Geopolitical Decoupling in Global Production Networks Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Petr Pavlínek
This article introduces the concept of geopolitical decoupling in global production networks (GPNs). Geopolitical decoupling is imposed on coupling participants by geopolitical forces that pressure...
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Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Simon Curtis
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 100, No. 1, 2024)
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Understanding Regional Branching: Knowledge Diversification via Inventor and Firm Collaboration Networks Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Dieter F. Kogler, Adam Whittle, Keungoui Kim, Balázs Lengyel
The diversification of regions into new technologies is driven by the degree of relatedness to existing capabilities already present in the region. In cases where opportunities for diversification ...
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The Place-based Work of Global Circulation: Maritime Workers, Collaboration, and Labor Agency at the Seaport Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Andrew Warren, Chris Gibson
How does place influence the work of global circulation, and how might that work enroll hitherto overlooked modes of collaboration, power, and agency? Geographers recentering labor in analyses of g...
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Agile Against Lean: An Inquiry into the Production System of Hyundai Motor Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Petr Pavlínek
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 100, No. 1, 2024)
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Spatial Heterogeneity in the Effect of Regional Trust on Innovation Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Thore Sören Bischoff, Petrik Runst, Kilian Bizer
Generalized trust positively affects innovation at the regional level by reducing transaction costs and supporting collaboration. We develop theoretical reasons for why the trust–innovation relatio...
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Evolving Market Infrastructures: The Case of Assetization in UK Social Housing Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Thomas Wainwright, Graham Manville
Researchers in economic geography have recently turned to examine the rental sector, particularly how institutional investors have begun to reshape the provision of housing. Following the politics ...
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Related Variety and Regional Development: A Critique Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Harald Bathelt, Michael Storper
Evolutionary approaches in economic geography have contributed substantially to the growing body of knowledge of regional development processes and their underlying mechanisms. One key concept in t...
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The Changing Shape of Spatial Income Disparities in the United States Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Tom Kemeny, Michael Storper
Spatial income disparities have increased in the US since 1980, a pattern linked to major social, economic, and political challenges. Yet, today’s spatial inequality, and how it relates to the past...
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Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Sören Scholvin
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 5, 2023)
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Correction Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-06-12
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 5, 2023)
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Urban Geographies of Financial Convergence: Situating Indian Financial Centers across Global Production and Financial Networks Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Julien Migozzi, Michael Urban, Dariusz Wójcik
Recent advancements in the global production networks (GPNs) literature seek to better emphasize the role of finance by identifying where and how global financial networks (GFNs) intersect with GPN...
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New Path Development in a Semi-peripheral Auto Region: The Case of Ontario Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Elena Gorachinova, David A. Wolfe
The automotive industry is facing disruptive trends and great uncertainty. The path forward for automotive jurisdictions is uncertain in terms of how automakers will allocate the production of new ...
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Market Making and the Contested Performation of Value in the Global (Bulk) Wine Industry Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Gerhard Rainer, Christian Steiner, Robert Pütz
Abstract Recent economic geography scholarship has emphasized (1) the performative work of market making (i.e., the geographies of marketization perspective) and (2) value-creation practices in markets (particularly the geographies of association and dissociation perspectives). In this article, we propose making stronger connections between these bodies of literature to gain a better understanding
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Hydroponic Capital: Socionatural Innovation and the Intensification of Glasshouse Agrifood Production Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Adrian Smith
Abstract This article develops the concept of hydroponic capital in order to explain the emergence of socionatural innovations aiming to enhance food security and production efficiencies in glasshouse agrifood production clusters. It does so through an archaeology of the knowledge regimes involved in technology innovations and examines the regionalized and transnational networks of crop scientists
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Regulation Theory, Space, and Uneven Development: Conversations and Challenges Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Aleksandra Piletić
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 5, 2023)
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Actually Existing Neoliberalism and Enterprise Formation in the Informal Economy: Interrogating the Role of Mediating Social Enterprises in India and South Africa Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Vrinda Chopra
Abstract Scholarship on social entrepreneurship primarily reduces social enterprises in the Global South to geographic variations of an idealized concept of combining commercial imperatives with social missions. In the article, I see social enterprise practice in economies of the Global South, namely India and South Africa, as channels to engage in the ongoing theorization of the field. The article
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Relatedness, Cross-relatedness and Regional Innovation Specializations: An Analysis of Technology, Design, and Market Activities in Europe and the US Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Carolina Castaldi, Kyriakos Drivas
Abstract This article examines how regions develop new innovation specializations, covering different activities in the whole process from technological invention to commercialization. We develop a conceptual framework anchored in two building blocks: first, the conceptualization of innovation as a process spanning technology, design, and market activities; second, the application and extension of
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Taylorism Comes to the Fields: Labor Control, Labor Supply, Labor Process, and the Twilight of Fordism in California Agribusiness Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Don Mitchell
Abstract When the Bracero (guest worker) Program ended in 1964, California agribusiness seemed to be facing a labor crisis. Growers had lost access to a large pool of essentially unfree labor, and (consequently) unionization in the fields was on the rise. As a result, researchers in the various agricultural divisions of the University of California embarked on a broad effort to reengineer the farm
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Industrial Embeddedness and Regional Economic Resistance in Europe Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Tasos Kitsos, Simone Maria Grabner, Andre Carrascal-Incera
Abstract We study the role of local industrial embeddedness (the share of regional interindustry economic activity that is anchored to a region) on regional resistance (the difference between pre- and postcrisis employment) to the 2008 Great Recession (GR) in EU and UK NUTS-2 regions. The recession had profound effects in regional economies, which showed diverse performance based on their capacity
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For a New Geography Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Denise Braz, Caroline Faria
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 4, 2023)
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2021—2022 Reviewers (August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022) Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-02-03
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 1, 2023)
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Volume 98 Annual Contents Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-02-03
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 1, 2023)
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Sustainable Futures—An Agenda for Action Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Christian Schulz
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 3, 2023)
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The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Robert Huggins
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 4, 2023)
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In Real Estate Investment We Trust: State De-risking and the Ownership of Listed US and German Residential Real Estate Investment Trusts Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Manuel B. Aalbers, Zac J. Taylor, Tobias J. Klinge, Rodrigo Fernandez
Abstract Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been around since 1960 but have only become major players in housing markets in the last twenty years. The current and ongoing wave of residential REIT (R-REIT) expansion has attracted significant scholarly and broader public interest. This article examines how real estate, finance, and the state are configured in relation to each other through R-REITs
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The Financial Industry Sets Sights on Institutional Investors: A Relational Approach to Property Investment Outsourcing Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Maira Magnani, Daniel Sanfelici
Abstract Over the past few decades, pension funds have emerged as major players in global financial markets as the reserves they manage have grown steadily. In this context, trustees are confronted with acute dilemmas regarding how best to generate investment returns to beneficiaries. This involves crucial decisions regarding the diversification of investment portfolios as well as decisions on whether
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Splitting Up or Dancing Together? Local Institutional Structure and the Performance of Urban Areas Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Marco Di Cataldo, Licia Ferranna, Margherita Gerolimetto, Stefano Magrini
Abstract This article analyzes institutional changes in local governance structures as determinants of wage premium and innovation capacity of urban areas. By combining individual and metropolitan area data for the US, we study the role of institutional fragmentation, related to the number of local governments operating in an area, and institutional coordination, stemming from the creation of authorities
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The Techno-politics of Rental Housing Financialization: Real Estate Service Companies and Technocratic Expertise in Australia’s Build to Rent Market Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Megan Nethercote
Abstract This article argues private expertise is a driving force behind the global expansion of rental housing financialization and, particularly, the making of build to rent (BTR) assets and markets. It develops this argument by investigating Australia’s underexamined BTR market and global real estate service companies (RESCs) as ubiquitous yet unscrutinized intermediaries in this new financialization
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Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Marc Doussard
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 2, 2023)
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Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Seamus Grimes
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 2, 2023)
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The Role of Relatedness and Unrelatedness for the Geography of Technological Breakthroughs in Europe Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Ron Boschma, Ernest Miguelez, Rosina Moreno, Diego B. Ocampo-Corrales
Abstract This article proposes a framework to study how the existing knowledge portfolio of regional economies affects the emergence and occurrence of breakthrough technologies. The study discusses the relevance of cognitive distance between the technology of a breakthrough invention and the existing technological base in their geographic vicinity. Theoretically, it introduces the idea that both relatedness
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On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Joseph Pierce
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 3, 2023)
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Injected Urbanism? Exploring India’s Urbanizing Periphery Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Robbin Jan van Duijne, Jan Nijman, Chetan Choithani
Abstract Engaging with different literatures in economic geography, postcolonial urbanism, and planetary urbanization, this article seeks to develop a theoretical understanding of remote urban formations taking shape in India’s countryside. The analysis draws on extensive primary data collected at two study sites in Bihar and West Bengal, which rendered an uncommonly rich data set for such remote areas
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Exploring Regional Innovation Policies and Regional Industrial Transformation from a Coevolutionary Perspective: The Case of Małopolska, Poland Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Marta Gancarczyk, Marta Najda-Janoszka, Jacek Gancarczyk, Robert Hassink
Abstract This article aims to explain the role of regional innovation policies in regional industrial transformation (RIT) from a coevolutionary perspective. The empirical basis is the case study of Małopolska, a Polish region undergoing an industrial transformation in parallel with the launch and development of its innovation policies after the EU accession in 2004. To accomplish its purpose, our
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Handbook of Proximity Relations Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Ward Ooms
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 99, No. 1, 2023)
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The Globalization of Regional Clusters: Between Localization and Internationalization Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Fiorenza Belussi
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 98, No. 5, 2022)
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Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Trina Hamilton
Published in Economic Geography (Vol. 98, No. 5, 2022)
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Environmental Upgrading and Downgrading in Global Value Chains: A Framework for Analysis Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Aarti Krishnan, Valentina De Marchi, Stefano Ponte
Abstract A key concern of the global value chain (GVC) and global production network (GPN) literature relates to whether and how actors, especially in the Global South, upgrade by generating and capturing more value. To date, such research has predominantly focused on the economic and social aspects of upgrading. In this article, we leverage selected insights from economic geography to advance our
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Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Diana Gutierrez-Posada, Tasos Kitsos, Max Nathan, Massimiliano Nuccio
Abstract Economic geographers have paid much attention to the cultural and creative industries, both for their propensity to cluster in urban settings, and their potential to drive urban economic development. However, evidence on the latter is surprisingly sparse. In this article, we explore the long-term, causal impacts of the cultural and creative industries on surrounding urban economies. Adapting
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The Regional Development Trap in Europe Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Andreas Diemer, Simona Iammarino, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Michael Storper
Abstract The concept of regional development trap refers to regions that face significant structural challenges in retrieving past dynamism or improving prosperity for their residents. This article introduces and measures the concept of the regional development trap for regions in Europe. The concept draws inspiration from the middle-income trap in international development theory but widens it to
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Continuous vs. Discrete Urban Ranks: Explaining the Evolution in the Italian Urban Hierarchy over Five Decades Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Roberta Capello, Andrea Caragliu, Michiel Gerritse
Abstract The reasons for changes in ranking within urban systems are a matter of a wide and long debate. Some focus on a continuous and smooth ordering of cities by their size within the urban system, in the tradition of Zipf’s law. Others focus on discrete, discontinuous ordering, as cities take on functions at different levels, such as specialized market places or high-level education, in the tradition
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Business Services, Income Inequality, and Income Segregation in Metropolitan Areas: Direct and Indirect Links Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Terje Wessel
Abstract This article investigates business services employment as a driver of income segregation. Theory and intuition suggest that two pathways operate simultaneously. First, business services are marked by huge internal differentiation, low union density, and individualized pay schemes, all of which raise income inequality, and, in turn, income segregation. Second, business services are subject
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Psychological Openness and the Emergence of Breakthrough vs. Incremental Innovations: A Regional Perspective Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Lars Mewes, Tobias Ebert, Martin Obschonka, P. Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling
Abstract Breakthrough innovations are expected to have a bigger impact on local economies than incremental innovations do. Yet past research has largely neglected the regional drivers of breakthrough innovations. Building on theories that highlight the role of personality psychology and human agency in shaping regional innovation cultures, we focus on psychological openness as a potential explanation
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Refractive Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Warren Max Bernauer
(2022). Refractive Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North. Economic Geography: Vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 299-301.
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Innovation Catalysts: How Multinationals Reshape the Global Geography of Innovation Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Riccardo Crescenzi, Arnaud Dyèvre, Frank Neffke
abstract We study whether and when research and development (R&D) activities by foreign multinationals facilitate the formation and growth of new innovation clusters. Combining information on nearly four decades’ worth of patents with socioeconomic data for regions that cover virtually the entire globe, we use matched difference-in-differences estimation to show that R&D activities by foreign multinationals
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Innovative Finance for Development? Vaccine Bonds and the Hidden Costs of Financialization Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Sarah Hughes-McLure, Emma Mawdsley
Abstract Innovative finance is now considered essential to mobilize the trillions projected as required to meet the sustainable development goals. The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), which issues vaccine bonds, is an emblematic example of innovative finance in global health and development. Since its launch in 2006, IFFIm has played a leading role in developing social bonds
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Sequined Styles, Intersectional Moves: Economic Geography, Let’s Dress Up! Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Caroline Faria, Dominica Whitesell, Kasfah Birungi, Annie Elledge, Jovah Katushabe, Catherine Kyotowadde
abstract In this article, we build on the vital insights of feminist thought in economic geography, extending this body of work via a global Black feminist geographic lens. To do so, we center two moments of the Ugandan bridal industry: the international trade of imported dresses and their design and refashioning there. Via the journeys of these dresses, we make visible how connected racial-gendered
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Smart Specialization in Australia: Between Policy Mobility and Regional Experimentalism? Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Caroline Veldhuizen, Lars Coenen
abstract This article describes and analyzes the transfer of smart specialization (S3) from Europe, where it originated, to Gippsland, Australia. It identifies factors that are likely to enhance and, on the other hand, diminish the contribution of S3 to development in this region, and, more generally, to peripheral regions around the world. The policy mobility literature provides the analytical framework
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“Expropriation of Capitalist by State Capitalist:” Organizational Change and the Centralization of Capital as State Property Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Ilias Alami, Adam D. Dixon
Abstract State enterprises, sovereign funds, and other state–capital hybrids have become major engines of global capitalism. How can we explain their global rise and organizational transformation into increasingly sophisticated and globally competitive forms? Why do they increasingly emulate the practices and organizational goals of comparable private-sector entities, adopt the techniques of modern
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Explaining Geographic Shifts of Chip Making toward East Asia and Market Dynamics in Semiconductor Global Production Networks Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Abstract Few recent geographic studies have focused on how market dynamics might explain macroregional shifts in industrial production. This article examines the pivoting of semiconductor manufacturing toward East Asia during the 2010s, drawing upon proprietary data sets and interviews with leading semiconductor firms. Building on the existing conceptions of user-producer collaborations in economic
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Relocation Decisions in Uncertain Times: Brexit and Financial Services Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Robert Panitz, Johannes Glückler
abstract This article examines the impact of uncertainty and profound political, economic, and regulatory changes on the process of geographic reorganization of the financial industry in the course of Brexit. It draws on historic lessons of massive relocations within the financial industry in Europe to conjecture three scenarios: (1) concentrated relocation to build a new European lead financial center
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Technology Network Structure Conditions the Economic Resilience of Regions Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Gergő Tóth, Zoltán Elekes, Adam Whittle, Changjun Lee, Dieter F. Kogler
abstract This article assesses the network robustness of the technological capability base of 269 European metropolitan areas against the potential elimination of some of their capabilities. By doing so, it provides systematic evidence on how network robustness conditioned the economic resilience of these regions in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. The analysis concerns calls in the relevant
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Landlord Elites on the Dutch Housing Market: Private Landlordism, Class, and Social Inequality Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Cody Hochstenbach
Abstract The past decade has seen a revival of private renting across a wide range of countries and housing regimes. Economic and housing restructuring has enhanced rental housing’s appeal as an investment class. Apart from an increase in investment from firms, institutions, and trusts, this has triggered a revival of private landlordism among individuals and households. Yet, few detailed studies on
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Resilience, Skill Endowment, and Diversity: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Fabrizio Fusillo, Davide Consoli, Francesco Quatraro
Abstract This article investigates the role of technological, industrial, and human capital composition in shaping short-term regional resilience in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008. Using data on 295 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas over the period 2008–14, we find that the most resilient regions feature a very diversified industrial structure. At the same time, an excess of technological
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Farming as Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 John Overton
(2022). Farming as Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes. Economic Geography: Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 197-198.
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Conceptualizing Labor Regimes in Global Production Networks: Uneven Outcomes across the Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan Apparel Industries Econ. Geogr. (IF 14.921) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Shyamain Wickramasingha, Neil M. Coe
abstract This article seeks to develop the concept of labor regimes as a tool for understanding the uneven labor outcomes of global production networks (GPNs). Existing work on labor regimes tends to give primacy to the control of labor, thereby analyzing labor regimes largely from a governance perspective. The agency of labor, however, is deeply embedded in the workings of labor regimes in GPNs, and