Organisational restructuring, knowledge and spatial scale: the case of the US department store industry
Wood, Steve (2002) Organisational restructuring, knowledge and spatial scale: the case of the US department store industry. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 93, (1), 8-33. (doi:10.1111/1467-9663.00180).
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Recent economic geography literature has underlined the role of tacit/local knowledge in embedding firms within their locales, characterised by the work on `learning regions', `territorial embeddedness', `institutional thickness' and `new industrial spaces'. This paper contributes to this theoretical debate, using evidence from organisational restructuring of the US department store industry to argue that, in contrast, retailers are using codified/universal knowledge, supported by tacit/local knowledge to successfully operate their retail operations across a range of spatial scales. As such, no one form of knowledge is exclusively relied upon but rather a blend of knowledges reduces costs and increases responsiveness across space.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSNs: | 0040-747X (print) 1467-9663 (electronic) |
| Keywords: | organisational restructuring, scale, retail, knowledge |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Management |
| Item ID: | 178217 |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2011 09:39 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 03:20 |
| Contributors: | Wood, Steve (Author) |
| Date: | February 2002 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/178217 |
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