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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gertler, Meric S. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Collection:Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.