Understanding the Firm Spatial and Organizational Dimensions 1st Edition by Michael Taylor, Päivi Oinas 0199260796 9780199260799

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ISBN 10: 0199260796 

ISBN 13: 9780199260799

Author: Michael Taylor; Päivi Oinas

Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. They come in a seemingly infinite variety – from transnationals to small firm, from corporations to branch plants, to subsidiaries and joint ventures, from subcontractors to franchisees, from sole proprietorships to partnerships, from manufacturers to service providers and retailers. For the most part we view them as the creators, destroyers, and repositories of jobs – the creators and destroyers of people’s livelihoods, lives, and dreams. But, deciding just what a firm is is neither a simple nor a straightforward task. Against a background of the dynamic complexity and plurality that business forms (and firms) can assume, there is a constant search within academic research for the processes that create and maintain both enterprise and enterprises in capitalist societies: a search for a theory of the firm. 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.

Table of contents:

Part I. Theorizing the Firm—Introduction

1. Fragments and Gaps: Exploring the Theory of the Firm

Part II. The Boundaries of the Firm

2. The Many Boundaries of the Firm

3. Guns, Firms, and Contracts: The Evolution of Gun-Making in Birmingham

Part III. Collective Agency and Narratives on Performance

4. The Firm: Coalitions, Communities, and Collective Agency

5. The Corporation, Shareholder Value Added, and the Power of Financial Management Narratives

Part IV. The ‘Political’ Firm and the State

6. Distortions in Industrial Geography: Triangulating Among Industrial Firms, Financial Firms, and t

7. Firms as Political Actors in Processes of Capital Accumulation and Regional Development

Part V. The Firm in Place

8. Studying the New Economy: An Activity Specific Approach to the High-Tech Firm

9. Learning Firms in Learning Regions: Innovation, Cooperation, and Social Capital

Part VI. Theorizing the Firm—Afterword

10. Theorizing the Firm in Economic Geography

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