Placing and spacing services: Towards a balanced economic geography of firms, clusters, social networks, contracts and the geographies of enterprise

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 248-261

  Rusten, Grete ^a   Bryson, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business services; Clusters; Collective entrepreneurship; Networks and contracts; Production systems; Relational economic geography; Theory of the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249091960     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2009.00584.x     Document Type: Article

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