ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01350.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn this article, we present a comparative analysis of the competitiveness and performance of business service companies in Scotland and Ireland. Several dimensions of performance are investigated for five industries: market research, management consultancy, product design, graphic design and advertising. Value‐added per person is almost identical in the two areas, but Irish offices achieved a much greater degree of export orientation (16% of sales) than the Scottish firms (4%). Possible demand and supply side causes of such differences are reviewed and potential policy responses considere

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01351.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractConsiderable efforts have been made by the Chinese government to achieve a spatially balanced pattern of industrial development. However, regional inequality has persisted after four decades of socialism in China. This article attempts to analyze spatially and temporally the relationship between industrial output and state investment, the major vehicle to implement regional development policies. Regression analysis shows that the relationship between investment and output was poor in 1953 and extremely poor in 1965 when large amounts of investment were channeled into interior development. It became stronger in 1978 and was the best in 1990. The expansion method suggests that the relationship weakens with increasing distance from the coast, and investment efficiency was poorer in the interior. This article has found that state investment did not bring in the expected industrial development, which significantly contributed to the persistence of regional inequality. The changing relationship between state investment and industrial output in China is a result of historical, political, economic, and geographical factors.

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01352.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractSince 1980, when public housing tenants in England and Wales were given the right to buy their homes, sales activity has been strongest in Conservative councils and weakest in Labour ones. In recent years, however, this pattern has changed, with Conservative councils recording the lowest sales levels. It is suggested that this owes much to the boom and bust character of local housing markets in the late 1980s, along with growing fears over unemployment. Using a statistical model to control for underlying influences on purchases, this article examines sales rates for every year from 1977/78–1989/90 for all 333 district councils in England and Wale

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01353.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe current export‐led development strategies of Third World nations rely largely on the capacity of agrarian world markets which, however, are characterized by unfavourable conditions. This situation enhances the pressure on the performance of local institutions related to product marketing. It is shown that coffee marketing within the traditional market system of an Indonesian highland area turns out to be an increasing disadvantage for the rural poor since it involves high transaction costs. New practices will have to be institutionalized in order to facilitate more transparency and to strengthen the peasants' capacity to compete with large plantations as well as with other production areas. Methodologically, the article attempts to demonstrate the value of an analysis which studies the dynamic interrelationships between structures and processes of different spatial dimension

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01354.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractRecent corporate restructuring in externally‐owned production units is examined in the case of Devon and Cornwall. Evidence is presented on the extent and nature of corporate restructuring in the areas of products and markets, production processes and labour use, and assessment is made of the degree to which restructuring has involved shifts towards flexible specialisation. Evidence of widespread restructuring based around achievement of increased production flexibility points to a broader applicability of concepts of flexible specialisation to regions dominated by external ownership. There is, however, significant unevenness in the movement towards flexible specialisation, between large and small firms, foreign‐owned and British‐owned plants, and between industrial sectors. Findings also have important implications for the role ascribed to branch plants in regional econ

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01355.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractRural change in developed market economies is no longer strictly synonymous only with agricultural restructuring. In the current economic climate, many rural areas may be seen to consist of a number of different competing factions, comprising traditional agricultural, ‘new’ agricultural and non‐agricultural interests. In the past, geographers have tended to study farm diversification and rural industrialization as separate, isolated fields of research. Whilst these foci are of merit, a more holistic conceptualization of rural change is now required. This paper defines the concept of ‘rural diversification’ and offers an agency‐structure conceptualization as a framework for analysis. It is suggested that such structured conceptualization is required for a more informed understanding of the process of rural change in the Uni

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01356.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01357.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01358.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:The Power of Maps.DENNIS WOODThe Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia.A. CHOWDHURY&I. ISLAMThe New Housing Shortage. Housing Affordability in Europe and the USA.GRAHAM HALLETTThe Geography of the European Community.J. COLE&F. COLERussian Refuge. Religion, Migration, and Settlement on the North American Rim.SUSAN WILEY HARD WICKUrban and Rural Geography. Papers from 6th Italian‐Polish Geographical Seminar.FABIO LANDOCrisis and Change in Rural Europe. Agricultural Development in the Portuguese Mountains.RICHARD BLACKThe New Geography of Consumer Spending, a Political Economy Approach.ALAN G. HALLSWORTHThe Global Economy, Resource Use, Locational Choice, and International Trade.BRIAN J.L. BERRY, EDGAR C. CONKLING&D. MICHAEL RAYRegional Networks, Border Regions and European Integration.R. CAPPELIN&W.J. BAT

ISSN:0040-747X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01359.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY