Results for 'michael taylor'

1. P. J. McDermott
2. Michael Taylor

Industrial Organisation and Location

This book attempts to advance locational explanation in industrial geography by more fully exploring relationships between organizations and the environments within which they operate. The volume is in two parts, the first developing a theoretical framework and the second testing this framework with data for firms in the electronics industry in the UK. To produce the theoretical framework, ideas derived from geographers' studies of linkages and information flows are reviewed and amalgamated with ideas embodied in organization theorists' contingency models of organisational structure. These two sets of studies are complementary. The geographical studies are empirically strong but conceptually weak, and are cast in an explicitly spatial framework. The structural contingency models, however, are empirically weak, conceptually strong and almost entirely aspatial. The amalgamation of these two sets of ideas yields an a priori model of organization environment interactions, which is tested in the second half of the volume.

1. Eirik Vatne
2. Michael Taylor

The Networked Firm in a Global World

'There is much to be recommended in this book, particularly the genersal approach in which empirical insights are drawn upon to advance theoretical debates on the nature of interfirm relationships, agglomeration and innovation...' Progress in Human Geography

1. Simon Leonard

Embedded Enterprise and Social Capital

This title was first published in 2002. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from the developed and developing world, this volume is the first to examine the complex processes of embedding in an international context. It not only questions the universality of the current model and the policy initiatives it has spawned but also provides a much wider understanding of embeddedness .

Understanding the Firm

Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. This book addresses some of the gaps in the current state of the theory of the firm from an economic geography perspective: issues around the boundaries of the firm; the collective agency of the firm; the political firm, financial markets, and the state; and the firm in place.

1. Michael Taylor

Eat, Drink and Be Merry, for Tomorrow We Live

A Baptist Minister, Michael Taylor was previously Director of Christian Aid, President of the Jubilee 2000 UK Debt Campaign, and Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Social Theology in the University of Birmingham.