In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes,… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them. — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income. — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real'… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond the most… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States, which is,… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts may be… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe. — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
