Region and place: devolved regional government and regional economic success?

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Regional development in the global economy: A dynamic perspective of strategic coupling in global production networks

“…In many ways, a self‐contained and endogenous view of regions and regional development can no longer hold water in this world economy characterized by increasingly interdependent economic activities that are organized through cross‐border value chains and production networks spearheaded and governed by global lead firms. Echoing Hudson's (, p. 620) relational view (see also Yeung , ), I believe that regions should be “seen as constituted from spatialized social relations, stretched out over space and materialized in various forms, and representational narratives about them”. These value chains and production networks are organizational platforms through which actors in different regional and national economies compete and co‐operate for a greater share of the creation, transformation, and capture of value through transnational economic activity.…”

Implementing Pillar II of the Common Agricultural Policy in England: Geographies of the Rural Enterprise Scheme and Processing and Marketing Grant

“…It could also feed into the debate on devolution and regional development in England, where the uneasy relationship between 'territorialised' economic policy instruments and regional economic development is already receiving attention (e.g. Hudson, 2005).…”

Conceptualizing the Region – In What Sense Relational?

“…HUDSON, 2007;JONES and MACLEOD, 2004;MACLEOD and JONES, 2007). Also, HUDSON (2005) seems to echo the above-mentioned point made by Amin concerning local (regional) politics as a field of agonistic engagement when he notes that we should rethink regions as the products of agonistic politics.…”