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Johannes Glückler
Geography
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The Place of Civil Society in the Creation of Knowledge
This interdisciplinary volume addresses the relations between civil society and knowledge from a social, institutional, and spatial perspective. As knowledge and civil society are co-constitutive (any voluntar...
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Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline
Time banks have become a popular type of civic organization constructed to facilitate egalitarian economic exchange through a community-bounded currency. Especially after the recent economic crises in Europe, ...
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The Geography of Giving in the Philanthropic Field
Drawing on the neo-institutional notion of organizational fields, we propose the concept of the philanthropic field to conceptualize the geography of giving and the interrelations of benevolent activities acro...
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The Economic Impact of the Universities in the State of Baden-Württemberg
The rise of global competition in a knowledge society and budget cuts in public spending have spurred an interest in the effects of universities on their regional economies. In contrast to the legacy of local ...
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Introduction: Knowledge and the Geography of the Economy
This introductory chapter revisits the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in the process of economic development. It challenges some of the persistent puzzles in traditional economic thought about knowle...
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The Problem of Mobilizing Expertise at a Distance
This chapter conceptualizes knowledge management within a trade-off between organizational coherence and geographical expansion. It focuses on an extensive corporate case study of a globally distributed medium...
