Spatialities of Governance - Spatial Imaginations Associated with Market, Hierarchy, Networks and Communities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5697280
AutoresOliver Ibert (0000-0003-2148-6989, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space), Axel Stein
Año2012
Volumen6
Número10
Páginas602-616
Fecha de publicación2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gec3.12000
OpenAlexW2141207918
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas80

This paper scrutinizes different modes of governance and their associations to spatial imaginations. Two main contributions are made. First, we outline the state of the art knowledge on coordinated action. We engage with thinking on markets, hierarchies and networks, while emphasizing the insights offered by the literature on communities of practice, which have yet to be considered by these established approaches. Second, we seek to make explicit how conceptual assumptions inherent to these modes of governance shape specific spatial imaginations. Coordination through the market has been strongly associated with the spatial imagination of agglomeration. More or less hierarchical governance inspired the idea of local production systems while the network paradigm has fed imaginations of relational spaces. In contrast, the spatial implications of communities remain barely understood. In this paper we suggest "shared contexts" as a useful notion to provide a preliminary understanding of this spatiality

Corporate governance · Economic geography · Economics · Economies of agglomeration · Epistemology · Geography · Hierarchy · Management · Microeconomics · Network governance · Political science · Sociology · Urban hierarchy · Business Strategy and Innovation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Management and Organizational Studies