Territoriality, enterprise and réglementation in industry governance

Abstract

The term ‘governance’ is used differently in different literatures. This paper relates the uses of the term and the theoretical concepts to which it is attached in three bodies of literature – the new institutional economics, a geographic literature exploring spatial embeddedness, and the regulation approach. Each adopts a different theoretical point of entry and highlights a particular sphere of governance, centred on the enterprise, people in place and the state respectively. We argue that they can be related, along with the myriad mechanisms of governance that operate within them, to provide a meaningful understanding of the industry and its governance. Doing so generates an approach to sectoral analysis that highlights ‘the industry’ as an object of government and reveals industry governance and the constitution of the industry to be mutually constitutive processes. The work is inspired by our current research on the New Zealand and European wine filières.

Playing the scales: Regional transformations and the differentiation of rural space in the Chilean wine industry

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Global Circulation and Territorial Development: South-east Brabant from a Relational Perspective

“…Territorial conditions further include those aspects of multi-level governance that define the scope for collective regulatory and strategic action at the local level (Lewis et al, 2002). The significance of these factors should be assessed in the light of possible alternative forms of industrial organisation.…”

Entre Anciens Mondes et Nouveau Monde ? Transcender le lieu et l’espace dans la géographie contemporaine du vin

“…On trouvera un exemple de ces influences internationales dans le conflit entre cépage et formes de protection du lieu de production (« appellation d'origine contrôlée » : en France, voir Barham, 2003;Kelly, 2007, ou pour le « Nouveau Monde » voir Banks & Sharpe, 2006 ;Overton & Heitger, 2008). Cette bataille est souvent ramenée à un conflit entre l'Ancien et le Nouveau Monde du vin, mais elle se produit en fait également au sein même de ces deux « mondes » (voir Banks & Overton, 2010 ;Barker, 2004 ;Lewis et al, 2002 ;et Moran, 1993 pour des études comparatives entre les deux « mondes »).…”