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Full text linkFil: Roberts, Brian. Universidad de San Andrés. Escuela de Administración y Negocios; Argentina
Overview:Urbanisation and Sustainable Development
No full textUrbanization·the spatial concentration of people and economic activity is arguably the most important social transformation in the history of civilization since man changed from being a nomadic hunter-gatherer and adopted a settled, subsistence agricultural way of life. While the timing and speed of urbanization have varied and are varying between countries, regions, and continents, the urbanization process has taken hold everywhere. It has proven to be an unstoppable and a mostly desirable phenomenon. Cities are the foundation of modern civilization; they are the engine room of economic growth and the centers of culture, entertainment, innovation, education, knowledge, and political powe
Biographical research, longitudinal study and theorisation
No full textIntroduction This chapter outlines some recent developments in longitudinal and life course research where biographical materials may be utilised as part of a variety of qualitative methods or combined with quantitative data. ‘Traditionally’, where ‘lives’ have been used, it has been to give some (rather limited) added experiential depth to quantitative surveys but increasingly longitudinal research is giving greater prominence to biographical accounts and materials, particularly with the rise of qualitative longitudinal studies. However, while the growth of ‘mixing methods’ has demonstrated ‘creative applications’ in biographical research the chapter argues that there is still a need to pay much more attention to sociological theorisation – on how conceptually the ‘life’ can be understood and interrelated with structure, culture and history
Emerging Issues for Regional Economic Development
No full textThe final chapter of this book canvasses a number of issues that are likely to becrucial for the future direction and development of analytical tools and strategiesfor regional economic development. One of the most challenging issues regionsface in their future economic development is how to ensure more sustainable andequitable outcomes and how this will affect the way we think about competitiveness. Another is how to develop and implement strategies for regions to be fast and flexible in creating knowledge and become learning regions by developing competitive industry clusters. Future directions of regional economic strategy will require the development of additional tools to support both analysis of regional economic competitiveness and the management of economic development, including how to manage regional risk.The chapter refers to the emerging ‘virtual world’ of economic development aswe move into a new age where virtual trade, organizational structures and infrastructure will grow in importance. In this context, it will be important that the human dimension of economic development is not lost in the headlong rush to an embrace the virtual world. This raises the question of the digital divide in society, whereby some people and some places are being ‘left out’ of the new information economy, resulting both in increasing gaps between the haves (or wealthy) and the have-nots (or poor) and in an increasing differentiation between those regions that are linked to the global economy and those that are not. The chapter also suggests that the increasingly pervasive paradigm of sustainable development is presenting significant challenges for regions and the actors in the regional development process to address in incorporating sustainability principles within the strategic intent of regional development and planning strategies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Multi-sector attribute analysis (MSAA) : its application for evaluating the competitiveness and economic development of regions
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