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Polycentric Development to Combat Regional Disparities? the Relation Between Polycentricity and Regional Disparities in European Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Trends in regional disparities have been a major issue in regional science for many decades and knowledge of ways to overcome such disparities has great importance for regional policy-making. Strong initial differences between regions affect the capacity
Meijers, Evert, Sandberg, Krister
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City regions, polycentricity and the construction of peripheralities through governance [PDF]

open access: yes
City regions have become a key paradigm in current academic debates, and with them the notion of network-based, polycentric spaces. They have moved to the foreground of national (and EU) policies of creating economic 'champions' for successful national ...
Herrschel, T., Herrschel, T.
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The governance of global supply chains: empirical insights from the ready‐made garment industry in Bangladesh a decade after Rana Plaza

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The regulation of activities in global supply chains presents significant challenges, particularly in establishing corporate accountability for human rights violations and addressing extraterritorial oversight. Due to the unwillingness or limited capacity of governments to regulate the social externalities of global business activities, the ...
TASKIN IQBAL
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in the participation of Russia in the global financial architecture driven by geopolitical challenges and prospective evolution vectors of world finance

open access: yesВестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета
Introduction. The current development of the global financial system is undergoing changes under the influence of a number of factors: changes in the monetary policy of countries, the aggravation of the political situation in developed countries, crisis ...
V. P. Akinina   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accessibility impacts of tod experiences in European metropolitan areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The study investigates how Transit Oriented Development - TOD structure affect accessibility in cities with the aim of establishing whether TOD patterns of urban expansion, in terms of network connectivity and inhabitants and job density, could be ...
Papa, Enrica, Bertolini, Luca
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Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract When common‐pool resources such as freshwater, clean air, and fisheries span national borders, the collective action problems encountered are particularly severe. This study explores the role of polycentric governance systems in overcoming these pressing problems, which frequently underlie global grand challenges. Integrating political economy
Amol M. Joshi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

URBAN STRUCTURE: ITS ROLE IN URBAN GROWTH, NET NEW BUSINESS FORMATION AND INDUSTRIAL CHURN [PDF]

open access: yes
Cities are the “engines of growth” because entrepreneurial and cre-ative activities are concentrated in cities. This suggests that cities grow by host-ing new businesses and “churning” industries advantageously.
Bumsoo LEE, Peter GORDON
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Frame Overlapping in Moral Markets: The Case of an ‘Open, Free, and Neutral’ Telecommunications Network

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores how social movement activists, engaged in constructing and expanding moral markets, sustain the integrity of their initial moral values, avoiding dilution or cooptation by conventional market practices. Through a qualitative case study of a telecommunications network, we show that activists can expand a moral market by a ...
Daniel Arenas, Joan Rodón, Mireia Yter
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Employment Center Characteristics on Commuting Time: A Case Study of the Seoul Metropolitan Area

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
The ongoing debate over whether polycentric urban structures reduce commuting times has yielded conflicting conclusions, highlighting the need for empirical findings in diverse urban contexts and analyses that consider a range of influencing factors ...
Sangyeon Nam, Sungjo Hong
doaj   +1 more source

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