Corporatism and ‘Political Context’ in the Federal Republic of Germany

Fuchs, Gerhard; Koch, Andrew

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“…This occurs as the sub-national units become more active in the area of industrial policies and as they develop new policy measures (see Fuchs & Koch 1991). In the field of industrial policy the sub-national units are directly confronted with the effects of globalization.…”

Section: Baden-württemberg: From Success To Economic Stagnationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As the nation state loses capacities to guarantee full employment and stable economic growth, and even considers these aims no longer to be among its main interest, the sub-national units try to fill the void. This occurs as the sub-national units become more active in the area of industrial policies and as they develop new policy measures (see Fuchs & Koch 1991). In the field of industrial policy the sub-national units are directly confronted with the effects of globalization.…”

Section: Baden-württemberg: From Success To Economic Stagnationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Economic globalization and regional penetration: The failure of networks in Baden‐Württemberg

Koch

Fuchs²

2000

European J Political Res

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This paper explores the emergence of direct linkages between the international economy and the state government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the early 1990s Baden-Württemberg embarked on a plan in which the laender government took the lead in organizing a large-scale, high technology project for the development of interactive television. Creating a 'network' between itself and major economic actors the laender government sought to enhance the economic development of the region. However, as the economic actors involved in the project questioned the economic viability of interactive television, they began to withdraw from the project. The project's failure demonstrates the incompatibility of political objectives with the economic goals of actors in a globalized economy. We conclude that as attractive as the network approach may be for regional and national governments, it is likely to be successful only where both sets of actors see the outcome as enhancing their respective priorities (political legitimacy and economic gains).

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Section: Baden-württemberg: From Success To Economic Stagnationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Baden-württemberg: From Success To Economic Stagnationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic globalization and regional penetration: The failure of networks in Baden‐Württemberg

Koch

Fuchs²

2000

European J Political Res

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Canadian economic geography at the millennium

Barnes¹,

Britton²,

Coffey³

et al. 2000

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Over the last quarter of a century the Canadian economy experienced a series of profound changes which have affected every level of society. They include new forms of flexible production, fundamental changes in regulation at all spatial scales, structural shifts away from manufacturing towards service sector activities, the rise of information technology (IT) and computerization at the workplace, the feminization of the labour market, and, what has become the leitmotif of the age, globalization. Such changes are intimately connected with geography. By that we mean not merely that they take on a geographical form, but that geography is pan of their very constitution. In this sense Canadian economic geographers are exactly in the right time and the right place to make use of their skills. Indeed, over the last five years there has been an explosion of literature by Canadian economic geographers on precisely these kinds of changes that are simultaneously both economic and geographical. In reviewing that literature the paper begins by situating Canada within its wider global setting, which we then follow by surveying the diverse writing around the three broad sectors that make‐up the Canadian economy: the resource sector, the manufacturing sector, and the service sector. We conclude by highlighting two particular research themes within Canadian economic geography that have become especially germane over the late 1990s. The first is on new labour markets and forms of work both of which have been transformed during the last decade; and the second is on new forms of industrial innovation, which are clearly pivotal to the future well‐being of the country for the next millennium. Au cours des vingt‐cinq dernières années, l'économie canadienne a connu une série, de changements profonds qui ont affecté toutes les couches de la société. Ces changements comprennent les nouvelles formes de production flexible, les changements fondamentaux dans la réglementation à toutes les échelles spatiales, la mutation structurelle du secteur industriel au secteur tertiaire, la montée de la technologie de l'information (Tl) et l'informatisation sur le lieu de travail, la présence plus importante des femmes sur le marché du travail, et, ce qui est devenu le leitmotiv de notre époque, la mondialisation. De tels changements sont intimement liés à la geographie. Par la, nous ne disons pas simplement qu'ils prennent une forme géographique, mais que la géographie fait partie intégrante de leur constitution. Dans ce sens, les géographes‐économistes canadiens arrivent, si l'on peut dire, au bon endroit au bon moment pour mettre leurs connaissances à profit. En effet, on assiste depuis les cinq dernières années à une recrudescence impressionnante des travaux de géographes‐économistes canadiens portant, précisément, sur ces types de changements qui sont à la fois économiques et géographiques. En faisant le compte‐rendu de cette littérature scientifique, cet article situe d'abord le Canada dans son contexte mondial plus large, passe ensuite en revue c...

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Corporatism and ‘Political Context’ in the Federal Republic of Germany

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Economic globalization and regional penetration: The failure of networks in Baden‐Württemberg

Economic globalization and regional penetration: The failure of networks in Baden‐Württemberg

Canadian economic geography at the millennium

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