Christian Sellar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Sellar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Sellar |
| SIGNATURE | SELLAR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7728-9146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Geopolitical Perspectives from the Italian Border
The Reshaping of German-Yugoslav Space from a Middle European Point of View. Paper Presented at the 2nd Ibru Conference, Held in Durham, UK, on July 18–21, 1991
Transnationalizing bureaucracies through investment promotion
This paper uses Bourdieu’s notion of field to discuss the historical process of transnationalization in national and local-level bureaucracies, due to the promotion of firms’ internationalization and value chains restructuring. By drawing on the case study of a single Italian state agency, Informest, analyzed within a larger field of public and private actors promoting Italian firms beyond borders, this paper makes the following contributions: (a…
The Geoeconomics/Politics of Italy's Investment Promotion Community
Through an historical analysis, this article discusses outward investments promotion as an underexplored aspect of geoeconomics. The empirical focus is on Italy’s institutional support to the internationalization of firms from 1992 to 2015, between the post-socialist transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and the years following the global crisis of 2008. The main argument is that large geopolitical events led to complex interactions betwee…
Mutating Neoliberalism
In the context of the literature on ‘actually existing neoliberalisms’, this article analyzes the policies and services supporting Italian foreign direct investment (FDI) in Slovakia. It identifies a group of organizations, both Slovak and Italian, which shape and deliver neoliberal pro‐FDI policies. By studying such an ‘investment promotion community’ (IPC) before and after the global financial crisis of 2009, and during Italy's prolonged crisis…
Building a Transnational Fusion Bureaucracy? A Study of State Officials and Opinion Leaders in Rousse (Bulgaria) and Transcarpathia (Ukraine)
This paper compares how officials in Rousse, Bulgaria, and Transcarpathia, Ukraine, interact with ‘foreigners’: officials from agencies of the European Union (EU), other member states, and foreign consultants. The goals are: a) to compare the extent to which officials in the two communities participate in transnational networks of European bureaucracies, the so-called ‘transnational fusion bureaucracy’; b) to assess the ways in which the bottom-u…
Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc
Tashkent
Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City (1930–1966) by Paul Stronski (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010) Pp. 350, $27.95 (Paperback) This is a well written and well researched book on th
Italian banks and business services as knowledge pipelines for SMEs
There are few analyses available of the role played by finance and business consultancies in post-socialist economic geographies and even fewer on the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Both issues are addressed in this paper with a focus on Italian banks and business services as well as their relationship to SME outsourcing in Central and Eastern Europe. The basic premise of this paper is that a relationship exist…
Regional Transformation Processes in the Western Balkan Countries
A cosmopolitan analysis of the contradictions in EU regional and enlargement policies as drivers of Europeanization
Although much has been written on the process of Europeanization, there is a lack of research on its nuances and implications. The academic literature to date focuses on debating the contradictions inherent within the politics of Europeanization without attempting to conceptualize what those contradictions mean in actual practice. This paper draws upon the work of Beck and Grande to analyze the myriad of contradictions shaping all levels of Europ…
Europeanizing Timisoara
Cluster Policies in Bulgaria
This article investigates public policies aimed at developing industrial clusters in Bulgaria by looking at initiatives at supranational, national and local levels. It argues that cluster policies have functioned as paths directing actions in the postsocialist transformation of Bulgaria. In doing so, it seeks answers to the following research questions: what are the connections between policy implementation, institutional changes and economic tra…
Geographical imaginaries of the ‘New Europe’ and the ‘East’ in a business context
A large literature in cultural geography, history, and sociology has discussed the different, constantly shifting, and mutually defining constructions of ‘Europe,’ ‘Eastern Europe,’ and more recently the ‘New Europe,’ focusing mostly on examples from the media, politics, and sometimes the arts. However, the literature has done little to analyze the construction of notions of Europe, and the role they play, in the realm of business. This paper beg…
Twenty years after the Wall
Cultural geography is increasingly intersecting with critical and popular geopolitics analyse how sociocultural constructions of space and place arise within, and play a role in shaping, geopolitical processes (e.g., Mitchell 2000; Dodds 2005; Dittmer and Spears 2009). The current round of the reshaping of as an economic, political, social, institutional and imagined entity provides a dynamic context in which further explore these links. As Delan…
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists
Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc
Europeanizing Timisoara
Twenty years after the Wall
Cultural geography is increasingly intersecting with critical and popular geopolitics analyse how sociocultural constructions of space and place arise within, and play a role in shaping, geopolitical processes (e.g., Mitchell 2000; Dodds 2005; Dittmer and Spears 2009). The current round of the reshaping of as an economic, political, social, institutional and imagined entity provides a dynamic context in which further explore these links. As Delan…
A cosmopolitan analysis of the contradictions in EU regional and enlargement policies as drivers of Europeanization
Although much has been written on the process of Europeanization, there is a lack of research on its nuances and implications. The academic literature to date focuses on debating the contradictions inherent within the politics of Europeanization without attempting to conceptualize what those contradictions mean in actual practice. This paper draws upon the work of Beck and Grande to analyze the myriad of contradictions shaping all levels of Europ…
Geographical imaginaries of the ‘New Europe’ and the ‘East’ in a business context
A large literature in cultural geography, history, and sociology has discussed the different, constantly shifting, and mutually defining constructions of ‘Europe,’ ‘Eastern Europe,’ and more recently the ‘New Europe,’ focusing mostly on examples from the media, politics, and sometimes the arts. However, the literature has done little to analyze the construction of notions of Europe, and the role they play, in the realm of business. This paper beg…
Mutating Neoliberalism
In the context of the literature on ‘actually existing neoliberalisms’, this article analyzes the policies and services supporting Italian foreign direct investment (FDI) in Slovakia. It identifies a group of organizations, both Slovak and Italian, which shape and deliver neoliberal pro‐FDI policies. By studying such an ‘investment promotion community’ (IPC) before and after the global financial crisis of 2009, and during Italy's prolonged crisis…
Italian banks and business services as knowledge pipelines for SMEs
There are few analyses available of the role played by finance and business consultancies in post-socialist economic geographies and even fewer on the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Both issues are addressed in this paper with a focus on Italian banks and business services as well as their relationship to SME outsourcing in Central and Eastern Europe. The basic premise of this paper is that a relationship exist…
Transnationalizing bureaucracies through investment promotion
This paper uses Bourdieu’s notion of field to discuss the historical process of transnationalization in national and local-level bureaucracies, due to the promotion of firms’ internationalization and value chains restructuring. By drawing on the case study of a single Italian state agency, Informest, analyzed within a larger field of public and private actors promoting Italian firms beyond borders, this paper makes the following contributions: (a…
The Geoeconomics/Politics of Italy's Investment Promotion Community
Through an historical analysis, this article discusses outward investments promotion as an underexplored aspect of geoeconomics. The empirical focus is on Italy’s institutional support to the internationalization of firms from 1992 to 2015, between the post-socialist transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and the years following the global crisis of 2008. The main argument is that large geopolitical events led to complex interactions betwee…
Cluster Policies in Bulgaria
This article investigates public policies aimed at developing industrial clusters in Bulgaria by looking at initiatives at supranational, national and local levels. It argues that cluster policies have functioned as paths directing actions in the postsocialist transformation of Bulgaria. In doing so, it seeks answers to the following research questions: what are the connections between policy implementation, institutional changes and economic tra…
Geographical imaginaries of the ‘New Europe’ and the ‘East’ in a business context
A large literature in cultural geography, history, and sociology has discussed the different, constantly shifting, and mutually defining constructions of ‘Europe,’ ‘Eastern Europe,’ and more recently the ‘New Europe,’ focusing mostly on examples from the media, politics, and sometimes the arts. However, the literature has done little to analyze the construction of notions of Europe, and the role they play, in the realm of business. This paper beg…
Twenty years after the Wall
Cultural geography is increasingly intersecting with critical and popular geopolitics analyse how sociocultural constructions of space and place arise within, and play a role in shaping, geopolitical processes (e.g., Mitchell 2000; Dodds 2005; Dittmer and Spears 2009). The current round of the reshaping of as an economic, political, social, institutional and imagined entity provides a dynamic context in which further explore these links. As Delan…
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists
A cosmopolitan analysis of the contradictions in EU regional and enlargement policies as drivers of Europeanization
Although much has been written on the process of Europeanization, there is a lack of research on its nuances and implications. The academic literature to date focuses on debating the contradictions inherent within the politics of Europeanization without attempting to conceptualize what those contradictions mean in actual practice. This paper draws upon the work of Beck and Grande to analyze the myriad of contradictions shaping all levels of Europ…
Europeanizing Timisoara
Cluster Policies in Bulgaria
This article investigates public policies aimed at developing industrial clusters in Bulgaria by looking at initiatives at supranational, national and local levels. It argues that cluster policies have functioned as paths directing actions in the postsocialist transformation of Bulgaria. In doing so, it seeks answers to the following research questions: what are the connections between policy implementation, institutional changes and economic tra…
Tashkent
Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City (1930–1966) by Paul Stronski (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010) Pp. 350, $27.95 (Paperback) This is a well written and well researched book on th
Italian banks and business services as knowledge pipelines for SMEs
There are few analyses available of the role played by finance and business consultancies in post-socialist economic geographies and even fewer on the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Both issues are addressed in this paper with a focus on Italian banks and business services as well as their relationship to SME outsourcing in Central and Eastern Europe. The basic premise of this paper is that a relationship exist…
Regional Transformation Processes in the Western Balkan Countries
Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc
Building a Transnational Fusion Bureaucracy? A Study of State Officials and Opinion Leaders in Rousse (Bulgaria) and Transcarpathia (Ukraine)
This paper compares how officials in Rousse, Bulgaria, and Transcarpathia, Ukraine, interact with ‘foreigners’: officials from agencies of the European Union (EU), other member states, and foreign consultants. The goals are: a) to compare the extent to which officials in the two communities participate in transnational networks of European bureaucracies, the so-called ‘transnational fusion bureaucracy’; b) to assess the ways in which the bottom-u…
Mutating Neoliberalism
In the context of the literature on ‘actually existing neoliberalisms’, this article analyzes the policies and services supporting Italian foreign direct investment (FDI) in Slovakia. It identifies a group of organizations, both Slovak and Italian, which shape and deliver neoliberal pro‐FDI policies. By studying such an ‘investment promotion community’ (IPC) before and after the global financial crisis of 2009, and during Italy's prolonged crisis…
Transnationalizing bureaucracies through investment promotion
This paper uses Bourdieu’s notion of field to discuss the historical process of transnationalization in national and local-level bureaucracies, due to the promotion of firms’ internationalization and value chains restructuring. By drawing on the case study of a single Italian state agency, Informest, analyzed within a larger field of public and private actors promoting Italian firms beyond borders, this paper makes the following contributions: (a…
The Geoeconomics/Politics of Italy's Investment Promotion Community
Through an historical analysis, this article discusses outward investments promotion as an underexplored aspect of geoeconomics. The empirical focus is on Italy’s institutional support to the internationalization of firms from 1992 to 2015, between the post-socialist transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and the years following the global crisis of 2008. The main argument is that large geopolitical events led to complex interactions betwee…
Geopolitical Perspectives from the Italian Border
The Reshaping of German-Yugoslav Space from a Middle European Point of View. Paper Presented at the 2nd Ibru Conference, Held in Durham, UK, on July 18–21, 1991
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Economic system (6 works) · International trade (6 works) · Regional Development and Policy (6 works) · Economy (5 works)