Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and
well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an …

This book synthesizes a vast body of theory and research on production in capitalist
societies. Ray Hudson considers both the specific sites in which production occurs, such as …

This book argues that beneath the Irish trade and foreign investment boom lies a more
interesting story of regional innovation promoted by an alliance between the state and local …

During the 1990s, I worked intermittently on a book focused on geographies of production,
eventually published in 2001 as Producing Places. As I did so, I was increasingly aware of …

Aquesta obra retrata la situació actual del desenvolupament territorial i els models
imperants. Se centra en els aspectes fonamentals sobre els tipus i destinataris del …

This paper examines the importance of industrial clusters, and the relevance of Porter's
diamond model, in the context of the small open economy of Ireland. It analyses the …

The development of information and communications technologies (ICT) has facilitated the
emergence of a complex global urban system in which many formerly lower-order cities …

The economy of the Republic of Ireland has experienced continuously high growth rates in
the 1990s, after a period of severe difficulty in the previous decade. As a result, Ireland is …

Since the mid-1980s, the software industry has been one of the fastest growing sectors of
the Irish economy. This article examines the causes of the degree of success which the Irish …

The dramatic GDP and export growth of Ireland over the last decade forms a marked
contrast with that of its nearest neighbour Northern Ireland. In Ireland, export volume growth …