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Understanding Innovation in Emerging Economic Spaces
A small number of countries, regions, cities, and localities are powerful gatekeepers and generate the bulk of creative and innovative ideas, while the majority is largely excluded. This book looks at neglected, but emerging innovation centres analysed from various spatial and organizational perspectives; ranging from entire countries and regions to individual firms and small neighbourhoods. Bringing together leading scholars from various disciplines, it examines a variety of economic sectors including biotechnology, agrotourism, and the food retail industry. The authors employ various, often contradictory, concepts, ranging from local buzz and the global pipeline, through an analysis of collective learning processes to geographical embeddedness, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The purpose of the book is twofold: investigating changes occurring in the regions and cities under transformation and attempting to find common and unique mechanisms behind these changes. Consequently, the authors shed light on the scale and scope of the innovativeness of selected economic and social processes.
Bangladesh's Leather Industry
This study provides an overview of how the Bangladeshi leather value chain is organised and governed. It analyses how the leather processing and leather goods/footwear subsectors are integrated into the global market and to what extent informal arrangements including illicit practices are conducive to global market entry. Power relations are dissected along the value chain, in order to analyse how local producers adapt to upholding competitiveness. The results of the work show the need to devise upgrading strategies which pay heed to the reality of informal dynamics in a global value chain (GVC) to improve the local producers’ competitiveness. The GVC perspective was combined with considerations on upgrading, subcontracting, middlemen and informality to adequately analyse the complexity of the transactions in the chain. The data of this study are drawn from empirical field studies in Dhaka, Bangladesh and other sections of the international leather value chain during the time period of 2010 to 2014. A qualitative research approach was complemented with quantitative methods.
Universities, Cities and Regions
Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product. Regions are territories where, under certain socio-economic conditions, a strong sense of belonging and mutual trust develops the ability to transform information and inventions into innovation and productivity increases, through cooperative or market interaction. Especially in contexts characterised by a plurality of agents — such as cities or industrial districts — knowledge is the result of cooperative learning processes, nourished by spatial proximity, network relations, interaction, creativity and recombination capability. This book explains the logic behi...
A Research Agenda for Family Business
This exciting Research Agenda expertly addresses the question: What will be important within the family business field and for family businesses in practice over the next decade? Top international contributors explore farsighted theories, methods and topics, often taking a multi-disciplinary approach in order to outline the potential routes for further advancing family business research. Chapters cover the significance of new family trends, entrepreneurial legacy, board diversity, spatial-familiness, corruption, innovation and digital business transformation, challenging core assumptions surrounding the family business phenomenon and mapping the future of the discipline.
Kreativität, Kultur und Raum
„Kreativität“ gilt als die strategische Ressource der Zukunft. Lech Suwala betrachtet das Wesen, die Entstehung und die Bedeutungszuweisung von (kultureller) Kreativität. Denn trotz des „Kreativitätshypes“ und zahlreicher Veröffentlichungen gibt es gravierende Mängel beim Verständnis von kultureller Kreativität, die das Fundament der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft bildet. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird das Verhältnis von (kultureller) Kreativität und dem Raum als Standort, Ort und Landschaft untersucht. Der Autor entwickelt anhand einer Zusammenführung von interdisziplinären Erkenntnissen ein systemisches Modell des Kreativitätsprozesses an der Schnittstelle von Kreativität, Kultur und Raum, in dem der Raum eine strukturierende und/oder koordinierende Funktion übernimmt.
Internationalisierung europäischer Wirtschaftskanzleien
Wolfdietrich Peiker untersucht in diesem Buch Expansionsstrategien von europäischen Wirtschaftskanzleien. Er stellt dabei den großen britischen „law firms“ Kanzleien aus kontinentaleuropäischen Ländern gegenüber, welche bisher kaum wissenschaftlich betrachtet wurden. Deren Marktauswahl ist dabei vor allem durch die proaktive oder reaktive Nutzung von Netzwerken geprägt, die sowohl Beziehungen zu Kunden als auch soziale Beziehungen umfassen können. Welche ausländischen Märkte Wirtschaftskanzleien überhaupt erschließen können, hängt wesentlich von den dortigen institutionellen Kontexten ab, welche die Offenheit der Märkte und deren Entwicklungsstände beschreiben.
