Existing perspectives on the social and institutional underpinnings of regional economic performance lack an account of how regions in post-socialist or developing countries lacking embedded, cohesive, trust-based networks could organize to transform themselves. This paper shows how provisional,...

CUMBERS A. (2000) Globalization, local economic development and the branch plant region: the case of the Aberdeen oil complex, Reg. Studies 34, 371-382. In recent years, there has been considerable debate over the consequences of globalization for local economic development. For some,...