The unique Handbook examines the impacts on, and responses to, economic geography explicitly from the perspective of the behaviour, mechanics, systems and experiences of different firms in various types of industries. The industry studies approach allows the authors to explain why the economic geography of these different industries exhibits such particular and diverse characteristics. The sectors and industries covered include: Traditional heavy industry and engineering creative and cultural industries knowledge sectors natural resource-based and environmental sectors knowledge, networks and communications issues. Handbook of Industry Studies and Economic Geography will strongly appeal to students, scholars and researchers interested in all aspects of industrial location and economic geography.
Contents: Introduction to the Relationships between Economic Geography and Industries: Theory, Empirics and Modes of Analysis Frank Giarattani, Geoffrey J.G. Hewings and Philip McCann PART I: HEAVY INDUSTRIES 1. Steel Industry Restructuring and Location Frank Giarratani, Ravi Madhavan and Gene Gruver 2. The Evolving Geography of the U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry[1] Thomas Klier and James M. Rubenstein 3. The Changing Geography of the European Auto Industry David Bailey, Gill Bentley and Stewart MacNeill 4. Supply-Chain Restructuring in US Mid-West Motor Industry Geoffrey Hewings PART II: CREATIVE AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES 5. Project-Based Industries and Craft-Like Production: Structure, Location, and Performance Peter B. Doeringer, Pacey Foster, Stephan Manning and David Terkla 6. Innovation, Industry Evolution, and Cross-Sectoral Skill Transfer in the Video Game Industry: A Three Country Study Yuko Aoyama and Hiro Izushi 7. Spatial Divisions of Labor: How Key Worker Profiles Vary for the Same Industry in Different Regions Ann Markusen and Ann Gadwa Nicodemus 8. Museums in the Neighbourhood: The Local Economic Impact of Museums Stephen Sheppard PART III: HIGH TECHNOLOGY SECTORS 9. Spinoff Regions: Entrepreneurial Emergence and Regional Development in Second Tier High-Technology Regions: Observations from the Oregon and Idaho Electronics Sectors Heike Mayer 10. Location, Control and Firm Innovation: The Case of the Mobile Handset Industry Ram Mudambi 11. How Has Information Technology Use Shaped the Geography of Economic Activity? Chris Forman 12. R&D, Knowledge, Economic Growth and the Transatlantic Productivity Gap Raquel Ortega-Argiles PART IV: RESOURCE-BASED SECTORS 13. The Changing Structure of the Global Agribusiness Sector Ruth Rama and Catalina Martinez 14. Social Capital and the Development of Industrial Clusters: The Northwest Ohio Greenhouse Cluster Michael C. Carroll and Neil Reid 15. Computational Structure for Linking Life Cycle Assessment and Input-Output Modeling: A Case Study on Urban Recycling and Remanufacturing Joyce Cooper, Randall Jackson and Nancey Green Leigh 16. The Importance of the Water Management Sector in Dutch Agriculture and the Wider Economy Frank Bruinsma and Mark Bokhorst PART V: KNOWLEDGE-BASED AND NETWORK-BASED ACTIVITIES 17. The Geography of Research and Development Activity in the US Kristy Buzard and Gerald Carlino 18. Offshore Assembly and Service Industries in Latin America Elsie Echeverri-Carroll 19. The Global Air Transport Industry: A Comparative Analysis of Network Structures in Major Continental Regions Aisling Reynolds-Feighan 20. Innovation in New Zealand: Issues of Firm Size, Local Market Size and Economic Geography Hong Shangqin, Philip McCann and Les Oxley 21. They are Industrial Districts, but Not As We Know Them! Fiorenza Belussi and Lisa De Propris Index
