Enterprising Worlds A Geographic Perspective on Economics, Environments & Ethics /

Enterprising World represents the culmination of several years of work by geographers, planners, and economists. The chapters included in this volume represent the collective efforts of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces. This collection is the resul...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gatrell, Jay D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Reid, Neil. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:GeoJournal Library, 86
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5226-X
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Table of Contents:
  • Economics, Environments & Ethics
  • Industrial and Technology Clusters: An Everyday Topic of Popular Conversation
  • Which Mode of (CLUSTER) Promotion for which aspect of Entrepreneurship? A differentiating view on institutional support of automotive clusters
  • The Dynamics of FDI of the TFT-LCD Cluster: A Study of Japanese Firms in Taiwan
  • Collaborating to Compete: The Case of Northwest Ohio’s Greenhouse Industry
  • Specialized Agriculture: Local Markets & Global Competitors in Ohio’s Greenhouse Industry
  • High Technology and Urban Development in Bangalore, India
  • An Evolutional Model of U.S. Manufacturing and Services Industries
  • Clusters and Local Economic Growth: Unpacking the Cluster Model
  • Towards Reconceptualising Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Processes for Sustainable Futures: Contributions from Economic Geography
  • Attitudes, Behaviours and Outcomes of Different Types of Entrepreneurs: Toward a Better Understanding of the Multiple Entrepreneurship Phenomenon
  • The Business and Sustainability of Water Supply in Singapore: The Case of Hyflux
  • Entrepreneurship: New Means of Support for Community Colleges
  • Globalization, Social Protest and the Militarized Landscape of Okinawa
  • Paternalism and Struggle at Weirton Steel Corporation
  • Ethics in Economic Geography
  • Whose Development? The Tribal Involuntary Dislocation in the Sardar Sarovar
  • Geographies of Informalization: Conceptual Dilemmas over Social Standards and Informalization of Labor
  • Building or Repairing Institutions: Microcredits in Argentina
  • Bread or Circus? The Economics of Mega-Sporting Events
  • Social Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development: A Conceptual Framework.