Creating Knowledge over Distance

The Role of Temporary Proximity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvHarald Bathelt,Sebastian Henn,University of Toronto) Bathelt, Harald (Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning,Friedrich Schiller University) Henn, Sebastian (Professor for Economic Geography, Professor for Economic Geography

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Creating Knowledge over Distance shows that economic knowledge creation fundamentally depends on, benefits from, and is structured by temporary geographical proximity - that is, by economic actors meeting in person or interacting in a co-present context to discuss business opportunities, problems and solutions are face to face. During the Covid-19 pandemic, personal meetings often had to be reduced or were replaced by virtual meetings, leading many observers to assume a fundamental reconfiguration of economic life in the future as face-to-face interaction may be substituted by virtual interaction through the use of new information and communication technologies. While communication patterns certainly changed during this period, this book demonstrates that the face-to-face meetings the authors investigate across a sequence of 11 chapters with different knowledge-creation contexts are unlikely to be fully substituted by distant interactions - and may even become more important over time. The book develops the argument by systematically analyzing three configurations of knowledge transfers over distance: (1) international community gatherings, such as trade fairs, delegation travel, conventions and conferences, (2) mobile business practices, including intra-firm business coordination, inter-firm projects, producer-user meetings, and corporate expansions/inter-firm negotiations, as well as (3) transnational networks, related to transnational corporations and transnational migrant firms (including new transnational firms/new Argonauts and transnational family networks).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-07-21
Mått160 x 240 x 18 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198851363

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Harald Bathelt is Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Geography & Planning and Zijiang Visiting Chair at East China Normal University in Shanghai. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of industrial clustering, knowledge generation and innovation over distance, and regional impacts of national/international investment activity. He has published many conceptual and empirical articles in leading academic journals. From 2012 to 2020, he was Editor of the Journal of Economic Geography and is current Editor of ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography.Sebastian Henn is Professor of Economic Geography at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. His research and teaching focuses on knowledge-based regional development, peripheries and polarisation, and regional health services research. He is (co-)editor of book series at Springer and Palgrave and has edited several anthologies with renowned international publishers. He also serves as Editor of ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography.

List of FiguresList of TablesConceptualizing Knowledge Creation Over Distance1: Making Global Connections: Combining Temporary and Permanent Spatial Settings2: Configurations of Knowledge Creation over DistancePart II. Knowledge Creation in International Community Gatherings3: International Trade Fairs4: Business Conferences and ConventionsPart III. Knowledge Creation Through Mobile Business Practices5: Intra-firm Business Coordination6: Producer-User Interaction and Inter-firm Projects7: Corporate Expansion and Inter-firm NegotiationsPart IV. Knowledge Creation in Transnational Networks8: Transnational Corporate Networks9: Transnational Migrant Firms and EntrepreneursPart V. Knowledge Creation in Virtual and Temporary Proximity10: Practices of Virtual Economic Interaction11: Synthesis: Towards Integrated Global Geographies of Knowledge CreationReferencesIndex

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