In this article we contribute to a growing body of literature concerned with the socio-cultural dynamics of learning and adaptation inside firms. Specifically, we apply a ‘competence-based’ view of the firm to a newly emerging breed of retail-industry transnational corporations (TNCs). We...

Written prior to the financial crisis of the world’s third largest retailer following its announcement of accounting irregularities on February 24 2003, this paper uses a case study of Ahold’s struggles to manage significant investment in the unpredictable business environments of Latin...

During the past decade, the Hollywood studios have broadly sought to subdue, rather than explore, the technological possibilities of the Internet. Specifically, the studios have used their ownership of creative works to control the speed and direction of innovation in an emerging digitally...

The behaviour of oligopolistic firms is a source of considerable debate and concern, given their market power and ability to shape the development of new markets. A key area of debate concerns the scope for strategic adaptation in oligopolies; and in particular, the extent to which such large...

H UDSON R. (1997) Regional futures: industrial restructuring, new high volume production concepts and spatial development strategies in the new Europe, Reg. Studies 31, 467-478. The last two decades have seen an increasing concern to reorganize production processes and experiment with a variety...

H UDSON R. (2003) Fuzzy concepts and sloppy thinking: reflections on recent developments in critical regional studies, Reg. Studies 37 , 741-746. There have been considerable changes in approaches to the study of regions and regional uneven development in recent years. Much of this has been...

H<sc>adjimichalis</sc> C. and H<sc>udson</sc> R. Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper explores the prima facie puzzling issue of why so much contemporary theory in economic geography and regional planning - specifically New Economic...