Manufacturing culture : the institutional geography of industrial practice /

Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process? Moreove...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gertler, Meric S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
Subjects:
Industrial organization > Social aspects.
Industrial organization > Regional disparities.
Organizational behavior > Social aspects.
Organizational behavior > Regional disparities.
Industries > Technological innovations.
Economic geography.
Industrie > Organisation, contrôle, etc. > Aspect social.
Industrie > Organisation, contrôle, etc. > Disparités régionales.
Comportement organisationnel > Aspect social.
Comportement organisationnel > Disparités régionales.
Industrie > Innovations.
Géographie économique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Negotiating.
Economic geography
Industrial organization > Regional disparities
Industrial organization > Social aspects
Industries > Technological innovations
Organizational behavior > Social aspects
Industriële bedrijven.
Technische vernieuwing.
Organisatiegedrag.
Regionale verschillen.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Institutions, agency, and industrial practices
  • Capital, technology, and economic performance
  • Proximity, organization, and culture
  • Regional cultures of production
  • Crisis in machinery building : the roots of Germany's economic malaise?
  • Tacit knowledge in geographical context
  • Geography, learning, and convergence.

Similar Items