Learning, proximity and industrial performance: an introduction

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Recent research has produced valuable new information about learning processes within companies. It is clear that learning processes must be distinguished from effective learning and adaptation within companies. Adaptation is not the same as learning, but can be regarded as being as significant an influence on organizational innovation and survival. Areas of focus within research into learning processes within companies have included the challenges faced by transnational companies in mobilizing tacit and codified knowledge and relationships between proximity and learning.

Analysis, Management, Organizational change, Organizational research

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The new 'geographical turn' in economics: some critical reflections

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Many economists are showing an increasing interest in geography. An improved dialogue between economists and geographers is to be welcomed, but geographers have so far shown little enthusiasm for the new focus on geography within economics. It is possible to argue that the 'new geographical economics' is neither new nor geography. Economists have become involved in a revamped regional science and regional economics, rather than in economic geography. The 'new geographical economics' involves too much mathematics and too little region.

Social aspects

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Labour markets, social justice and economic efficiency

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The importance of power relations in economic institutions is examined, as is the impact of neoliberal economics on removing barriers to unequal power being exercised.

Economics, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Economic aspects, Political aspects, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social justice, Institutional economics

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