Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts may be ….

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process..

It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist politic….

the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of….

In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very r….

Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them..

A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the '….

Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periph….

One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufactu….

The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income..

Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe..

More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreeme….

It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desi….

In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes pos….

One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States, which is, once again….

Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond the mo….