Transnational corporations, global production networks, and urban and regional development: A geographer's perspective on Multinational enterprises and the global …

HWC Yeung - Growth and Change, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper offers an economic‐geographical interpretation of the role of transnational
corporations (TNCs) in urban and regional development that is grounded in Dunning and …

The social order of markets

J Beckert - Theory and society, 2009 - Springer
In this article I develop a proposal for the theoretical vantage point of the sociology of
markets, focusing on the problem of the social order of markets. The initial premise is that …

Place, networks, space: theorising the geographies of social movements

W Nicholls - Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This essay examines how geography affects the different types of networks underlying social
movements. The principal argument of the paper is that networks forged in particular places …

Governing through quality: conventions and supply relations in the value chain for South African wine

S Ponte - Sociologia ruralis, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Global value chain (GVC) analysis examines the dynamics of economic globalisation and
international trade. The concept of GVC governance illustrates how 'lead firms' achieve …

Choosing a food future: Differentiating among alternative food options

JR Follett - Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics, 2009 - Springer
This article examines the diversity of food networks that fit within the alternative food system
of the United States. While farmers' markets, community supported agriculture schemes, and …

Beyond bifurcation: Examining the conventions of organic agriculture in New Zealand

C Rosin, H Campbell - Journal of rural studies, 2009 - Elsevier
The last 10 years have witnessed numerous attempts to evaluate the merits of new
theoretical approaches–ranging from Actor Network Theory to 'post-structural'Political …

Transnationalizing entrepreneurship: a critical agenda for economic geography

HW Yeung - Progress in Human Geography, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper is concerned with entrepreneurship that takes place across borders, known as
transnationalizing entrepreneurship, and its implication for economic-geographical …

Roepke lecture in economic geography—Regional context and global trade

M Storper - Economic geography, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
abstract How should we think of the role of regions in relation to the global economy?
Theory has surprising gaps when it comes to building a unified vision of these two scales of …

Evolving economic landscapes: why new institutional economics matters for economic geography

PS Rafiqui - Journal of Economic Geography, 2009 - academic.oup.com
As institutional change is an integral part of economic development, institutionalism ought
not to be left behind in favour of an evolutionary economic geography despite the attention …

Konvention, Organisation und Institution. Der institutionentheoretische Beitrag der „Économie des conventions “

R Diaz-Bone - Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 2009 - JSTOR
The article presents the French approach of Economics of convention (économie des
conventions, in short: EC). The EC are the most important part of the new social sciences in …