July 2008

The Neglected King: The Customer in the New Knowledge Ecology of Innovation, by Gernot Grabher, Oliver Ibert, and Saskia Flohr

Governing Finance: Global Imperatives and the Challenge of Reconciling Community Representation with Expertise, by Gordon L. Clark

Placing Progress: Contextual Inequality and Immigrant Incorporation in the United States, by Jamie Goodwin-White

Hybrid Branch Plants: Japanese Lean Production in Poland’s Auto Industry, by Tomasz Majek and Roger Hayter

Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography --
Venture Capital in the "Periphery": The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building, AnnaLee Saxenian and Charles Sabel

The Places of Primitive Accumulation in Rural China, Michael Webber

Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits: Overlapping Spaces in Furniture Trade Fairs, Dominic Power and Johan Jansson

Principles and Practices of Knowledge Creation: On the Organization of "Buzz" and "Pipelines" in Life Science Communities, Jerker Moodysson