Handbook of Industry Studies and Economic Geography

Edited by Frank Giarratani, University of Pittsburgh, US, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US and Philip McCann, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK

This unique Handbook examines the impacts on, and responses to, economic geography explicitly from the perspective of the behaviour, mechanics, systems and experiences of different firms in various types of industries. The industry studies approach allows the authors to explain why the economic geography of these different industries exhibits such particular and diverse characteristics.

‘Economic geography and industrial economics have traditionally been two distinct fields of scholarship separated by entirely disparate literatures, methodologies and research agendas. No more. With publication of this path-breaking collection of meticulously crafted studies, the editors have forged economic geography and industrial economics into a coherent and compelling singular field of scholarship. Neither economic geography nor industrial economics can subsequently be considered in isolation but will need to be analyzed in the integrated framework introduced in this book.’
——印第安纳大学的David b . Audretsch盛开ton, US