Business organization, segmentation and location

Taylor, Michael; Thrift, Nigel

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“…Business organisations, therefore, organise production systems ... but are themselves produced through a complex historical process of embedding'' (page 287). Taylor and Thrift (1983) elaborate a typology of business enterprise types and the nature of the positions they might occupy within a generalized network structure. What is suggested is that position within power networks endows enterprises (and thus the places within which they are embedded) with distinctive operational characteristics and growth potentials.…”

Section: Enterprise Segmentation and Unequal Power Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theories of Local Economic Growth (Part 1): Concepts, Models, and Measurement

Plummer

Taylor

2001

Environ Plan A

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IntroductionUnderstanding the processes and patterns of economic development is at the heart of economic geography. Explanations of these processes have become increasingly elaborate as the processes of internationalization and globalization have intensified the complexity of economic and social interrelationships and the arenas within which these interrelationships are played out (Dicken, 1998; Lee and Wills, 1997; Thrift, 1998; Yeung, 1998). The crisis in capitalism that became apparent in the late 1960s highlighted the limitations of Fordism and the weaknesses of the branch-plant economies it created. Those economies suffered from a lack of locally autonomous decisionmaking, increasingly narrowed occupational opportunities, and corporate sector enterprises that no longer provided industrial environments conducive to indigenous economic growth (Gillespie, 1983;Scott and Storper, 1992). Analytical attention has now shifted towards indigenous development and local capacities to generate self-sustaining economic growth.In the past twenty years, a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses has emerged in economic geography. They combine, in different ways at the local scale, processes associated with technology and knowledge, markets and competition, transaction structures, networks and interenterprise relations, labour markets, and culture and embeddedness to explain differences in local economic dynamics and in the

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Section: Enterprise Segmentation and Unequal Power Relationsmentioning

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Theories of Local Economic Growth (Part 1): Concepts, Models, and Measurement

Plummer

Taylor

2001

Environ Plan A

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“…The firms in Schwaebisch-Hall had a much higher strategic growth orientation and set up more professional business structures. In general, when firms grow, they reach certain thresholds that require reorganisation of business structures, such as human resources, sales management or marketing, that in turn reinforce their growth (Lloyd and Dicken, 1972;Taylor and Thrift, 1983). This has rarely been achieved in Mittelhessen.…”

Section: Results: the Firm Levelmentioning

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Driving forces of cluster evolution – Growth and lock-in of two German packaging machinery clusters

Moßig

Schieber

2016

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This paper explores the driving forces for divergent trajectories of cluster evolution within the same branch of industry using the example of two packaging machinery clusters located in the German regions of Schwaebisch-Hall and Mittelhessen. Between 1998 and 2010 the Schwaebisch-Hall cluster recorded an increase in employment of almost two thirds. On the other hand, employment in the Mittelhessen cluster declined by about 15% and the cluster is characterised by negative functional and cognitive lock-in. This study tackles the existing lack of comparative in-depth longitudinal case studies with regard to cluster evolution. In doing so, the driving forces from recent conceptual approaches to cluster dynamics are exemplified empirically, which has rarely been done before. It is pointed out that dynamics at individual firm level (e.g. routines, spin-offs) are equally important -albeit highly interdependent -as those dynamics of relations (e.g. learning, rivalry, policy) and those operating at a systemic level (e.g. cluster heterogeneity, markets). Therefore we consider conceptual approaches to cluster evolution, which combine several driving forces to really understand changes, as necessary.

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“…Keeble et al (1992) considered two possible explanations for the size structure of the industries they considered. The first was that the industries were examples of the dual-economy model put forward by Taylor and Thrift (1983), where the existence of a small number of large organizations alongside a large number of small businesses is part of the process of evolution in modern industrial economies. Howells and Green (1988) argue that 'the importance of small firms in services may continue despite, or paradoxically because of, increasing concentration ratios within such industrial sectors'.…”

Section: Size Structure Of the Industrymentioning

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The Changing International Scope of Executive Search and Selection

Britton

Doherty²,

Ball³

1997

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

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2004),"Perceptions of executive search and advertised recruitment attributes and service quality", Personnel Review, Vol. 33 Iss 1 pp. 30-54 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.

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Business organization, segmentation and location

Cited by 89 publications

References 85 publications

Theories of Local Economic Growth (Part 1): Concepts, Models, and Measurement

Theories of Local Economic Growth (Part 1): Concepts, Models, and Measurement

Driving forces of cluster evolution – Growth and lock-in of two German packaging machinery clusters

The Changing International Scope of Executive Search and Selection

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