Manufacturing Culture The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice [Hardcover]

This book presents a new conception of industrial practice and firm behavior. It explains how the cultures that shape the practices of firms and the trajectories of regional and national economies are actually produced. The analysis shows how the internal and inter-firm organization of production, use of technologies, and the industrial knowledge underpinning these practices are strongly influenced by their social and institutional context.

1. Institutions, Agency, and Industrial Practices
2. Capital, Technology, and Economic Performance
3. Proximity, Organization, and Culture
4. Regional Cultures of Production
5. Crisis in Machinery Building: The Roots of Germany's Economic Malaise?
6. Tacit Knowledge in Geographical Context
7. Geography, Learning, and Convergence
Bibliography
Index

Manufacturing Cultureis a provocative book that is full of ideas, evidence, and critical thinking. The book also demonstrates the value of an institutional approach to economic geography, notably from a behavioral slant. Researchers in economic geography and social scientists who are interested in regional and local development will find the book a stimulating read and source for discussion.