Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts may be growing rapidly, others may be stagnating, others may be in steep decline. — 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
