Description
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The book examines the challenges that local, regional, national, and global value chains at different levels pose to territorial development. Rethinking and developing urban and regional spaces require new understanding and research methods in economic geography. This is achieved by exploring how value chains influence and address territorial development. It is argued that territorial development is closely connected to local control of production networks, especially concerning social and environmental sustainability. This argument is supported by ten case studies from various countries (Argentina, Ecuador, the United States, and several from Spain or authored by Spanish scholars). The chapters offer readers a chance to explore the different elements that make up value chains. The book also provides an opportunity to understand the usefulness of value chains in relation to current economic geography dynamics. The case studies employ both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, covering various sectors and economic activities across different geographical scales (local, regional, national, and cross-national cases). The findings are particularly relevant for urban and regional development planning. This publication targets an audience familiar with new trends in economic geography and other social sciences.
Chapter "Following in the Footsteps of Inditex: Relocation and Adaptation of Urban Retail as a Competitive Strategy in its Value Chains" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Chapter "Sustainable Food Networks and Mainstream Agrifood Value Chains: Testing a Comparative Conceptual Framework" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Chapter "The Economic Impact of the Global Covid-19 Crisis on the Metropolitan Areas: Employment and Unemployment in Spanish Metropolitan Areas" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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1. Industry Emergence and Market Capture: The Rise of Autonomous Vehicles (Luis F. Alvarez León; Yuko Aoyama).- 2. The Glocal Network of Leading E-commerce Companies: A Comparative Analysis of Amazon in Spain and Mercado Libre in Argentina through Logistics Corridors (Luciana Buffalo; Rosa Mecha-López).- 3. Global Apparel Distribution Networks: Glocal Retail and Large Chains (Àngels Pérez-Mateos; Ana Vera; Àngel Cebollada Frontera).- 4. Following in the Footsteps of Inditex: Relocation and Adaptation of Urban Retail as a Competitive Strategy in its Value Chain (María Pilar Alonso-Logroño ; Carlos López-Escolano).- 5. Argentina´s Uneven Integration into Agrochemical Commodity Chains (Christian Berndt; Tomás Palmisano).- 6. Local Production Networks in the Global Market: Export Models of Spanish Wine Designations of Origin (Eugenio Climent-López; Samuel Esteban-Rodríguez).- 7. Sustainable Food Networks and Mainstream Agrifood Value Chains: Testing a Comparative Conceptual Framework (José Luis Sánchez-Hernández).- 8. Informal Economy, Social Economy and Glocal Networks in Latin America´s Context (Ana Vera; Ramiro Canelos-Salazar).- 9. Performance, Connectivity and New Centralities of Spanish Cities in the European Urban Network (Juan M. Albertos-Puebla).- 10. The Economic Impact of the Global Covid-19 Crisis on the Metropolitan Areas: Employment and Unemployment in Spanish Metropolitan (Julia Salom-Carrasco; Juan Miguel Albertos-Puebla; Simón Sánchez-Moral; Eloy Solís-Trapero).
