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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on February 14, 2005
Journal of Economic Geography 2005 5(3):381-384; doi:10.1093/jnlecg/lbh047
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Review essay

Putting knowledge in its place—a review essay

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities

Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
ISBN 0–19–925332–3 (hb),
0–19–925333–1 (pb), xv+179 pp.
Price: £45.00 (hb), £16.99 (pb).

Manufacturing Culture: the Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice

Meric Gertler
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN 0–19–823382–5, xvii + 201 pp.
Price: £45.00.

Having recently become the geography book review editor for this journal, I have taken the liberty of commissioning myself to write a review essay on these two new research monographs. A joint review is appealing due to a number of similarities and connections between the two texts. Both books provide fascinating and cutting-edge contributions to a broad set of debates across the social sciences and management studies about the production, transfer, and absorption of different forms of knowledge, both within and across firms, and how these processes relate to economic performance at various scales. Both are concise, extremely . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Neil M. Coe

The University of Manchester


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