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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on August 22, 2007
Journal of Economic Geography 2008 8(1):130-133; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm031
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Managing network resources: alliances, affiliations and other relational assets

Managing network resources: alliances, affiliations and other relational assets
Ranjay Gulati Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-929985-0, xvi + 325 pp. Price: £18.99 (paperback)

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The study of inter-organizational relationships has come to the forefront of economic-geographical research during the past two decades. It all began with the heated debate during the late 1980s and the early 1990s on the alleged emergence of a post-Fordist mode of flexible industrial organization primarily through the process of vertical disintegration of formerly hierarchically organized giant firms and their spin-off/outsourcing activities. This debate witnessed the rise of the network form of industrial organization that has subsequently dominated research agendas in many subfields of economic geography, ranging from studies of regional development and innovation systems to industrial clusters and global production networks. It is within this intellectual context that Ranjay Gulati's latest book is very much welcomed and evaluated.

I have had the pleasure of reading Gulati's work from the beginning of his fast-track academic career. His twin 1995 seminal papers in the Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

National University of Singapore


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