Erica Schoenberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 134950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica Schoenberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoenberger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOENBERGER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 358 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Discurso e prática na geografia humana
Este artigo analisa o modo como nosso discurso disciplinar molda nossas práticas materiais enquanto pesquisadores e nossas formas de pensar. Utiliza como estudo de caso o termo "competitividade", considerando suas origens e significados dentro da economia e dos negócios, a forma como estes significados são importados para nosso próprio trabalho e as consequências de uma aceitação acrítica da validade e do significado do termo. O artigo analisa do…
Quest for development: An examination of more than a half-century of national planning and foreign aid practice in Nepal
This paper examines the national planning process and the effectiveness of foreign aid for the development of Nepal from 1956 to 2019 using archived planning documents, international publications, and facts gleaned from conversations with planning officials. The existence of the National Planning Commission predates the establishment of the Ministry of Finance in Nepal. However, the lack of coordination between the two agencies has turned the for…
Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography-War, Capitalism, and the Making and Unmaking of Economic Geographies
War is both incredibly destructive and strangely productive. Its impacts depend on how wars are fought (e.g., sieges, mechanized ground wars, drones) and how warriors are equipped. Cities are built, destroyed, and rebuilt under the impetus of war. New industries are created. The kinds of resources required at one time are devalued and replaced by others at a later date. Here I will develop an argument about how and why warfare has been central to…
The Rise of the Hybrid Domain: Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation
Book review of "The Rise of the Hybrid Domain: Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation
Nature, Choice and Social Power
We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do. Using case studies from different environmental domains – earth and water, air and fire – N…
Levels of analysis: Comments on Brett Christophers’ The Great Leveler
Maynard and Iris: Environmental Keynesianism and deep democracy
To address the deep contradictions in social and economic life that motivated Keynes, I propose a combination of “environmental Keynesianism” and “deep democracy.” Massive state investment in infrastructure and environmental remediation would be an excellent way of soaking up capital in the ground, thus responding to the overaccumulation crisis feared by Keynes. Deep democracy, proposed by Iris Marion Young, proposes a sustained political engagem…
Beyond exchange and agglomeration: Resource flows and city environments as wellsprings of urban growth
The conversation between economic geographers and political economists has not made much progress. The former focus on exchange, markets and efficiency, as can be seen in work on urban economies. We want the field to pay more attention to two processes crucial to the growth of cities often lying outside market exchange and agglomeration economies: how resources are managed across time and space and how the urban environment creates challenges dem…
Difference in economic geography
Foreign aid in waste management: A case of Kathmandu, Nepal
Nature, Choice and Social Power
Commentary
Why is gold valuable? Nature, social power and the value of things
The paper proposes a social history of the value of gold that stresses its connection to the acquisition, use and defense of social power. Gold's natural scarcity has continually been reinforced by an artificial scarcity arising from how powerful groups have used it, but the ruling class monopoly of control has alternated with periods of more widespread social access. In one period, gold is very closely held by a small number of very high-status …
New models of regional change
The Origins of the Market Economy: State Power, Territorial Control, and Modes of War Fighting
The origin and spread of money-based commodity markets is normally attributed to a natural evolution from barter and is usually seen as a solution to problems of exchange. I want to propose that markets to a considerable degree develop historically out of a different set of dynamics. These are concerned with the state-building tasks of territorial conquest and control, and are closely related to specific modes of war fighting. In this connection,…
The Spatial Fix Revisited
Corporate autobiographies: The narrative strategies of corporate strategists
The autobiographies of people who run large corporations have become a distinctive literary genre. This paper analyzes the narrative structures of three such texts to understand what they tell us about their authors as individuals and as members of a social class, and about how firms are run in real life. The texts relate to the histories of IBM, Apple Computer, and Xerox. The analysis centers on how the narrative is structure to present the pers…
Interdisciplinarity and social power
This paper takes up the problem of how to structure a productive and genuine inter- disciplinary engagement from the standpoint of geography. It examines first what makes inter- disciplinarity difficult, focusing on the production of disciplinary cultures that define the material practices, social relations and epistemological commitments characteristic of a field of study. The paper then considers why interdisciplinarity seems to be in the ascen…
Constructing Roots: In Memory of Ben Harrison
Discourse and practice in human geography
This article examines the way in which our disciplinary discourse shapes our material practices as researchers and our ways of thinking. It uses as a case study the term ‘competitive ness’, considering its origins and meanings within economics and business, the way these are imported into our own work, and the consequences of an unexamined acceptance of the validity and meaning of the term. The article works through two examples of discourse in a…
Science and Everyday Life
The Cultural Crisis of the Firm
Winner of the Anniversary Award
Corporate Strategy and Corporate Strategists: Power, Identity, and Knowledge within the Firm
In this paper it is argued that, to explain why whole groups of once-successful firms in a particular nation or region fail to react appropriately to new competitive conditions, we need to take a closer look at the people who devise and implement corporate strategies. That is to say, we need to analyze corporate strategists as social agents in a particular time and place, and try to understand what aspects of their social being might tend systema…
Commentary
From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation: Technology, Competitive Strategies, and International Location
Aspects of the transition from Fordism to what has been labeled a regime of flexible accumulation are analyzed. First the nature of the current crisis of Fordism is considered, with special emphasis on two elements of this crisis. The first has to do with the internationalization of Fordist production techniques without the corresponding elaboration of characteristically Fordist consumption patterns in the countries involved. The second has to do…
Technological and Organizational Change in Automobile Production: Spatial Implications 1
SCHOENBERGER E. (1987) Technological and organizational change in automobile production: spatial implications, Reg. Studies 21, 199–214. The origins and implications of recent technological and organizational changes in the automobile industry are examined. The nature of competition in the industry is linked to the adoption of flexible automation technologies in production. This, it is argued, may foster the spatial re-integration of production i…
Corporate Strategy and Corporate Strategists: Power, Identity, and Knowledge within the Firm
In this paper it is argued that, to explain why whole groups of once-successful firms in a particular nation or region fail to react appropriately to new competitive conditions, we need to take a closer look at the people who devise and implement corporate strategies. That is to say, we need to analyze corporate strategists as social agents in a particular time and place, and try to understand what aspects of their social being might tend systema…
Thinking about Flexibility: A Response to Gertler
In a recent article in this journal, Gertler criticizes the notion of flexibility, focusing on the issues of the empirical pervasiveness of flexible production methods and the social, economic and technical barriers to their spread. Emphasizing the labour control advantages of an extensive spatial division of labour, he criticizes geographers who have linked flexible production with spatial reconcentration. This paper takes issue with Gertler's c…
Interdisciplinarity and social power
This paper takes up the problem of how to structure a productive and genuine inter- disciplinary engagement from the standpoint of geography. It examines first what makes inter- disciplinarity difficult, focusing on the production of disciplinary cultures that define the material practices, social relations and epistemological commitments characteristic of a field of study. The paper then considers why interdisciplinarity seems to be in the ascen…
Technology, Regions and Policy
Discourse and practice in human geography
This article examines the way in which our disciplinary discourse shapes our material practices as researchers and our ways of thinking. It uses as a case study the term ‘competitive ness’, considering its origins and meanings within economics and business, the way these are imported into our own work, and the consequences of an unexamined acceptance of the validity and meaning of the term. The article works through two examples of discourse in a…
The Spatial Fix Revisited
Why is gold valuable? Nature, social power and the value of things
The paper proposes a social history of the value of gold that stresses its connection to the acquisition, use and defense of social power. Gold's natural scarcity has continually been reinforced by an artificial scarcity arising from how powerful groups have used it, but the ruling class monopoly of control has alternated with periods of more widespread social access. In one period, gold is very closely held by a small number of very high-status …
The Origins of the Market Economy: State Power, Territorial Control, and Modes of War Fighting
The origin and spread of money-based commodity markets is normally attributed to a natural evolution from barter and is usually seen as a solution to problems of exchange. I want to propose that markets to a considerable degree develop historically out of a different set of dynamics. These are concerned with the state-building tasks of territorial conquest and control, and are closely related to specific modes of war fighting. In this connection,…
Competition, Competitive Strategy, and Industrial Change: The Case of Electronic Components
This paper considers the changing foundations of competition in the electronic components industry and their implications for production and location at the international level. Pressures in favor of the adoption of competitive strategies based on product destandardization are described. As a consequence, it is argued, the industry's traditional spatial division of labor stands to be recomposed along different lines
Corporate autobiographies: The narrative strategies of corporate strategists
The autobiographies of people who run large corporations have become a distinctive literary genre. This paper analyzes the narrative structures of three such texts to understand what they tell us about their authors as individuals and as members of a social class, and about how firms are run in real life. The texts relate to the histories of IBM, Apple Computer, and Xerox. The analysis centers on how the narrative is structure to present the pers…
Foreign Manufacturing Investment in the United States: Competitive Strategies and International Location
This paper examines the growing phenomenon of foreign manufacturing investment in the United States in order to develop an understanding of the factors that draw production to the U.S. market despi
Some Dilemmas of Automation: Strategic and Operational Aspects of Technological Change in Production
This paper addresses the problem of automation from the perspective of the individual firm. It shows that the uptake of advanced automation techniques affords significant advantages to the firm whi
Beyond exchange and agglomeration: Resource flows and city environments as wellsprings of urban growth
The conversation between economic geographers and political economists has not made much progress. The former focus on exchange, markets and efficiency, as can be seen in work on urban economies. We want the field to pay more attention to two processes crucial to the growth of cities often lying outside market exchange and agglomeration economies: how resources are managed across time and space and how the urban environment creates challenges dem…
Foreign aid in waste management: A case of Kathmandu, Nepal
Commentary
Commentary
Quest for development: An examination of more than a half-century of national planning and foreign aid practice in Nepal
This paper examines the national planning process and the effectiveness of foreign aid for the development of Nepal from 1956 to 2019 using archived planning documents, international publications, and facts gleaned from conversations with planning officials. The existence of the National Planning Commission predates the establishment of the Ministry of Finance in Nepal. However, the lack of coordination between the two agencies has turned the for…
Whose Jerusalem? The Conflicts of Israel
Iranian Nationalism and the Great Powers: 1872-1954
Soviet Policy in the Middle East
Foreign Manufacturing Investment in the United States: Competitive Strategies and International Location
This paper examines the growing phenomenon of foreign manufacturing investment in the United States in order to develop an understanding of the factors that draw production to the U.S. market despi
Competition, Competitive Strategy, and Industrial Change: The Case of Electronic Components
This paper considers the changing foundations of competition in the electronic components industry and their implications for production and location at the international level. Pressures in favor of the adoption of competitive strategies based on product destandardization are described. As a consequence, it is argued, the industry's traditional spatial division of labor stands to be recomposed along different lines
Technological and Organizational Change in Automobile Production: Spatial Implications 1
SCHOENBERGER E. (1987) Technological and organizational change in automobile production: spatial implications, Reg. Studies 21, 199–214. The origins and implications of recent technological and organizational changes in the automobile industry are examined. The nature of competition in the industry is linked to the adoption of flexible automation technologies in production. This, it is argued, may foster the spatial re-integration of production i…
Technology, Regions and Policy
From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation: Technology, Competitive Strategies, and International Location
Aspects of the transition from Fordism to what has been labeled a regime of flexible accumulation are analyzed. First the nature of the current crisis of Fordism is considered, with special emphasis on two elements of this crisis. The first has to do with the internationalization of Fordist production techniques without the corresponding elaboration of characteristically Fordist consumption patterns in the countries involved. The second has to do…
The Ambiguous Future of Professional and Technical Workers in Manufacturing: Some Hypotheses
In the current period of dramatic industrial restructunng afflicting virtually all advanced capitalist countries, much attention has focused on the steadily worsening situation of blue collar workers (Blackaby 1979, Frobel, Hein richs & Kreye 1980; Bluestone & Harrison 1982; Massey & Meegan 1982; Massey 1984; Martin & Rowthorn 1986) By contrast, the position of pro fessional and technical workers in manufacturing is perceived as relatively secure…
Business Dilemmas and Social Dilemmas: Social and Geographic Aspects of Industrial Competitiveness
(1989). Business Dilemmas and Social Dilemmas: Social and Geographic Aspects of Industrial Competitiveness. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 71, The Roots of Geographical Change: 1973 to the Present, pp. 19-30
Thinking about Flexibility: A Response to Gertler
In a recent article in this journal, Gertler criticizes the notion of flexibility, focusing on the issues of the empirical pervasiveness of flexible production methods and the social, economic and technical barriers to their spread. Emphasizing the labour control advantages of an extensive spatial division of labour, he criticizes geographers who have linked flexible production with spatial reconcentration. This paper takes issue with Gertler's c…
Some Dilemmas of Automation: Strategic and Operational Aspects of Technological Change in Production
This paper addresses the problem of automation from the perspective of the individual firm. It shows that the uptake of advanced automation techniques affords significant advantages to the firm whi
The Corporate Interview as a Research Method in Economic Geography∗
The open-ended corporate interview as a qualitative research method is proposed as a valuable component of an evidentiary strategy in economic geography. It is argued to be more sensitive than other survey methods to historical, institutional, and strategic complexity. The corporate interview method is particularly appropriate in periods of economic and social change that challenge traditional analytical categories and theoretical principles. Som…
Commentary
Corporate Strategy and Corporate Strategists: Power, Identity, and Knowledge within the Firm
In this paper it is argued that, to explain why whole groups of once-successful firms in a particular nation or region fail to react appropriately to new competitive conditions, we need to take a closer look at the people who devise and implement corporate strategies. That is to say, we need to analyze corporate strategists as social agents in a particular time and place, and try to understand what aspects of their social being might tend systema…
Winner of the Anniversary Award
Discourse and practice in human geography
This article examines the way in which our disciplinary discourse shapes our material practices as researchers and our ways of thinking. It uses as a case study the term ‘competitive ness’, considering its origins and meanings within economics and business, the way these are imported into our own work, and the consequences of an unexamined acceptance of the validity and meaning of the term. The article works through two examples of discourse in a…
Science and Everyday Life
The Cultural Crisis of the Firm
Corporate autobiographies: The narrative strategies of corporate strategists
The autobiographies of people who run large corporations have become a distinctive literary genre. This paper analyzes the narrative structures of three such texts to understand what they tell us about their authors as individuals and as members of a social class, and about how firms are run in real life. The texts relate to the histories of IBM, Apple Computer, and Xerox. The analysis centers on how the narrative is structure to present the pers…
Interdisciplinarity and social power
This paper takes up the problem of how to structure a productive and genuine inter- disciplinary engagement from the standpoint of geography. It examines first what makes inter- disciplinarity difficult, focusing on the production of disciplinary cultures that define the material practices, social relations and epistemological commitments characteristic of a field of study. The paper then considers why interdisciplinarity seems to be in the ascen…
Constructing Roots: In Memory of Ben Harrison
The Spatial Fix Revisited
The Origins of the Market Economy: State Power, Territorial Control, and Modes of War Fighting
The origin and spread of money-based commodity markets is normally attributed to a natural evolution from barter and is usually seen as a solution to problems of exchange. I want to propose that markets to a considerable degree develop historically out of a different set of dynamics. These are concerned with the state-building tasks of territorial conquest and control, and are closely related to specific modes of war fighting. In this connection,…
New models of regional change
Political science (19 works) · Business (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works)