Globalising Worlds and New Economic Configurations

Christine Tamasy

Contents: Researching new economic configurations: theory and context, Christine Tamásy and Mike Taylor; Impeding industrial development? Regional trade arrangements as response to quota abolition in the textile and garment industry, Hege Merete Knutsen; Crossing juridical borders: relational governance in international package tourism from Germany to Jordan, Sabine Dörry; Global distribution and cluster development: Hollywood and the German connection, Ivo Mossig; Foreign direct investments in development strategies: Norwegian FDI and the tendency for agglomeration, Arnt Fløysand and Håvard Haarstad; Multinational investment in UK regions, Dimitra Dimitropoulou, Simon Burke and Philip McCann; Globalising commercial property markets: the development and evolution of the listed property trust sector in New Zealand, Laurence Murphy; The new international division of labour and the changing role of the periphery: the case of the Polish automotive industry, Boleslaw Domanski, Robert Guzik and Krzysztof Gwosdz; Toyotaism travels to Poland: a case study of a hybrid factory, Tomasz Majek and Roger Hayter; Spatial division of competencies and local upgrading in the automotive industry: conceptual considerations and empirical findings from Poland, Johannes Winter; Analysis of the automobile cluster in a multi-dimensional spatial framework: the case of Ulsan, Jeong Hyop Lee; The identification of potential cluster areas using local indexes of spatial autocorrelation, Michael C. Carroll, Bruce W. Smith and Joseph P. Frizado; The role of an antecedent cluster, academic R&D and entrepreneurship in the development of Toledo's solar energy cluster, Frank J. Calzonetti; The restructuring of metal manufacturing in the West Midlands region of the UK: an emerging new geography, Michael Taylor and John Bryson; Labour market intermediation, James W. Harrington and Nicholas Velluzzi; Globalisation, skilled migration and the mobility of knowledge, Christine Tamásy; Rural development