The European automotive industry has once again entered a period of uproar. The crisis of 2008/2009 is far from over but probably marks the start of a new era that some observers are starting to refer to as the second automobile revolution. In this article, we will be trying to emphasize three...

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

The paper investigates the spatial patterns of industrial location and environmental pollution in a new-economic-geography model. Factors of production and their owners are mobile, but factor owners are not required to live in the region in which their factors are employed. Under laisser-faire,...

Despite the increasing and newly inspired interests in geographical economics and industry location theory, the majority of existing New Economic Geography models ignores the interdependence between spatial concentration, knowledge diffusion, invention and growth. For this reason, the paper...

Using an analytically solvable equilibrium model, we study how the distribution of economic activities is affected by the trade-off between pecuniary externalities, as dependent on transportation costs, and localized technological externalities, as dependent on inter-regional spillovers. We...

At a time when the market economy has never been stronger, occupying new geographical zones and new spheres of activity, the idea of culture is undeniably an inescapable dimension in economy and territories. Present in the way products are manufactured, exchanged, consumed, as in the products...

The paper analyses the strategies of internationalization pursued by first tier automotive suppliers (FTS). The advent of modular production in this sector implies many changes in vertical relationships, which can in turn be used to explain the causes and forms of suppliers’...

Territory, Specialization and Globalization in European Manufacturing Francisco Puig and Helena Marques Q Routledge jj^ Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK Contents List of figures xi List of tables ...

The research presented in this dissertation explores the spatial distribution of producer service establishments in the Washington DC area for 1997. Producer services are a distinct and important segment of the US industrial economy. These businesses provide the intermediary goods and services...

Evolutionary Economic Geography Location of production and the European Union Miroslav N. Jovanovic O Routledge fi » Taylor 6 Francis Group LONDON A ND NEW YORK Contents List of illustrations xii Foreword ...