Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements
of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as …

Over the last decade or so there has been an identifiable shift in the interests of many
economic geographers towards a concern with practices: stabilized, routinized, or …

This article contributes to the converging literatures on global production networks and new
regionalism, which show that these two entities and their respective geographic scales are …

This research analyzes how foreign organizational practices diffuse among indigenous
enterprises in a developing economy. It highlights the collective knowledge-building process …

The article presents the methodological position of the French approach of the" économie
des conventions"(economics of convention, in short: EC). EC is introduced as a new form of …

Agri-food products are more and more considered and treated as valuable local assets. The
valorisation of such local assets is an issue of great importance, especially in disadvantaged …

This introduction and the contributions of the HSR issue intend to develop and to
demonstrate the potentialities of the economics of convention (EC) for a transdisciplinary …

Este artigo descreve um modelo para a análise da integração econômica e sua relação com
as assimetrias do desenvolvimento econômico e social. Conscientemente rompendo com …

Parallel verändert sich der gesellschaftliche Blick auf soziale Ungleichheiten. Noch immer
bilden die Nationalstaaten einen wichtigen Referenzrahmen für die Wahrnehmung sozialer …

What makes one face a highly valued commodity amid an enormous pool of relatively
“worthless” competition in the fashion modeling industry? Consider the case of a young …