Andrew Mcmeekin
Biographic Data
| ID | 280103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Mcmeekin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmeekin |
| SIGNATURE | MCMEEKIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5392-8361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1086 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From platform capitalism to strategic place-based platformisation
Digital platforms have pervaded a broad sweep of urban life over the last decade and more. Urban mobility platforms have been particularly prevalent, often seeking to disrupt and provide alternatives to the existing organisation of provision. In this paper we argue that there is a need to strengthen understanding of the role of urban (governing and infrastructural) context in platform urbanism. Moving from debates around platform capitalism, wher…
How have digital mobility platforms responded to Covid-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’
Digital mobility platforms have become increasingly pervasive over the last decade or so in a wide variety of urban contexts. Much digital mobility platform activity has focused on city centres and urban cores, where returns on investment are often seen to be greatest, where existing transport infrastructure can be thick and where there are concentrated circulations of people. The global spread of coronavirus from early 2020 resulted in widesprea…
Urban infrastructure reconfiguration and digital platforms: Who is in control
The literature on urban sustainability transitions has grown substantially over the last two decades. Recent debates have sought to position urban transition as an incremental process of reconfiguration informed by novel relationships between existing systems of provision and new infrastructural and governing arrangements. We extend these debates by exploring how digital platformisation of urban infrastructure is challenging the organisation and …
Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations
COVID‐19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with novel 15 minute neighbourhoods. Within this context, we as a diverse group of urban scholars sought to examine the emergent ‘post’‐COVID city through the production of an urban lexicon that investigates its socio‐material contours. The urban…
Global technology companies and the politics of urban socio-technical imaginaries in the digital age: Processual proxies, Trojan horses and global beachheads
In this paper, we take the concept of 'new urban spaces' as our jumping off point to engage with the efforts of Alphabet/Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs to cultivate a new integrated digital and infrastructural urban space on the Toronto waterfront. We interrogate the process and politics of imagining this new, digital urban space as an urban socio-technical imaginary. The paper critically examines the central role of 'big tech' in producing the u…
Socio-technical scenarios as a methodological tool to explore social and political feasibility in low-carbon transitions: Bridging computer models and the multi-level perspective in UK electricity gen…
The governance practices of sharing platforms: Unpacking the interplay between social bonds and economic transactions
State-rescaling and re-designing the material city-region: Tensions of disruption and continuity in articulating the future of Greater Manchester
In a context of globalisation, the emergence of city-regions and the politics and dynamics of their constitution has been debated for almost two decades. Recent writings have extended this focus to seeing city-regions as a geopolitical project of late capitalism where the state takes a critical role in the re-design of city-regions to make them amenable to international competition and to secure strategic inward investments in the built environme…
Platform mobilities and the production of urban space: Toward a typology of platformization trajectories
The past decade has seen an explosion in what is popularly known as the "sharing economy," perhaps most visibly in the realm of transport. Digital "shared mobility" platforms like Uber, Car2Go, and Mobike, as well as emerging, more sophisticated "mobility-as-a-service" platforms which coordinate multiple discrete services into a single portal, have risen to prominence as modes of reworking everyday urban transport in cities of North America, Euro…
An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions
Index
Qualities of food
Quality in economics: a cognitive perspective Gilles Allaire 61 Social definitions of halal quality: the case of Maghrebi Muslims in France Florence Bergeaud-Blackler 94 Food agencies as an institutional response to policy failure by the UK and the
Series foreword
The CRIC-MUP series New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition is designed to make an important contribution to this continually expanding field of research and scholarship.As a series of edited volumes, it combines approaches and perspectives developed by CRIC's own research agenda with those of a wide range of internationally renowned scholars.A distinctive emphasis on processes of economic and social transformation frames the CRIC research pro…
Conclusion: Quality and processes of qualification
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes that quality is inevitably about controversy over standards, and presents a set of diverse and detailed observations. It analyses of what it is to make a claim that something is of better quality than something else. The book focuses on a number of contrasting approaches to quality of food. It describes that different qu…
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions
This conceptual review article provides a critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research, which is currently framed by two generic positions. First, the 'reformist' position, which focuses on firms pursuing green eco-innovations and consumers buying eco-efficient products, represents the political and academic orthodoxy. Second, the 'revolutionary' position, which is a radical critique of the mainstream, advocates the aboli…
Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges
Sustainability transitions and final consumption: Practices and socio-technical systems
This article examines the significance of final consumption processes for understandings of prospective transitions towards more sustainable societies. It argues that most existing conceptualisations either place too much emphasis on technology or on ‘consumer behaviour’, ignoring the deeply intertwined relationships between the two. After briefly reviewing recent contributions to the technology-oriented multi-level perspective (MLP) and to socia…
Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools
The past three decades have witnessed a period of great turbulence in the economies of biological knowledge, during which there has been great uncertainty as to how and where boundaries could be drawn between public or private knowledge especially with regard to the explosive growth in biological databases and their related bioinformatic tools. This paper will focus on some of the key software tools developed in relation to bio-databases. It will…
Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools
The past three decades have witnessed a period of great turbulence in the economies of biological knowledge, during which there has been great uncertainty as to how and where boundaries could be drawn between public or private knowledge especially with regard to the explosive growth in biological databases and their related bioinformatic tools. This paper will focus on some of the key software tools developed in relation to bio-databases. It will…
Brazilian genomics and bioinformatics: Instituting New Innovation Pathways in a Global Context
The paper raises issues of analysis and policy for science and technology in developing countries within the global context of the post-genomic era. Based on a case study of a newly created Brazilian research and technology capability, it argues for an understanding of variety creation, where new organizational forms often transgress established scientific and organizational boundaries and arrangements. In particular, new frontiers of science and…
Qualities of food
Quality in economics: a cognitive perspective Gilles Allaire 61 Social definitions of halal quality: the case of Maghrebi Muslims in France Florence Bergeaud-Blackler 94 Food agencies as an institutional response to policy failure by the UK and the
What would constitute success for UK biotechnology in 2005
This paper presents the rationale and results of a scenario exercise concerning possible future developments in UK biotechnology. The final output of this exercise is a 'consensus' vision of what success might look like for the UK in biotechnology in 2005. The 'success scenario' was developed during a two-day workshop through structured discussions in a group of people active in biotechnology in industry, research agencies, consultancies or acade…
The social and economic dimensions of biotechnology: An introduction
The UK is widely perceived to be already relatively successful in the economic performance of its edgling biotechnology activity.It has signi cant numbers of specialist biotechnology start-up companies, and its major pharmaceutical companies are leaders in the development and application of the technology.Allied to this, its science base makes a major contribution to the underpinning knowledge base through activities such as the Human Genome Proj…
Patrick McGovern, HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation, London: Routledge, 1998, £50.00, viii+184 pp
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Diffusion with distinction
An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions
Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions
This conceptual review article provides a critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research, which is currently framed by two generic positions. First, the 'reformist' position, which focuses on firms pursuing green eco-innovations and consumers buying eco-efficient products, represents the political and academic orthodoxy. Second, the 'revolutionary' position, which is a radical critique of the mainstream, advocates the aboli…
Platform mobilities and the production of urban space: Toward a typology of platformization trajectories
The past decade has seen an explosion in what is popularly known as the "sharing economy," perhaps most visibly in the realm of transport. Digital "shared mobility" platforms like Uber, Car2Go, and Mobike, as well as emerging, more sophisticated "mobility-as-a-service" platforms which coordinate multiple discrete services into a single portal, have risen to prominence as modes of reworking everyday urban transport in cities of North America, Euro…
Qualities of food
Quality in economics: a cognitive perspective Gilles Allaire 61 Social definitions of halal quality: the case of Maghrebi Muslims in France Florence Bergeaud-Blackler 94 Food agencies as an institutional response to policy failure by the UK and the
Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations
COVID‐19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with novel 15 minute neighbourhoods. Within this context, we as a diverse group of urban scholars sought to examine the emergent ‘post’‐COVID city through the production of an urban lexicon that investigates its socio‐material contours. The urban…
Technological trajectories and R&D for environmental innovation in UK firms
Global technology companies and the politics of urban socio-technical imaginaries in the digital age: Processual proxies, Trojan horses and global beachheads
In this paper, we take the concept of 'new urban spaces' as our jumping off point to engage with the efforts of Alphabet/Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs to cultivate a new integrated digital and infrastructural urban space on the Toronto waterfront. We interrogate the process and politics of imagining this new, digital urban space as an urban socio-technical imaginary. The paper critically examines the central role of 'big tech' in producing the u…
State-rescaling and re-designing the material city-region: Tensions of disruption and continuity in articulating the future of Greater Manchester
In a context of globalisation, the emergence of city-regions and the politics and dynamics of their constitution has been debated for almost two decades. Recent writings have extended this focus to seeing city-regions as a geopolitical project of late capitalism where the state takes a critical role in the re-design of city-regions to make them amenable to international competition and to secure strategic inward investments in the built environme…
Brazilian genomics and bioinformatics: Instituting New Innovation Pathways in a Global Context
The paper raises issues of analysis and policy for science and technology in developing countries within the global context of the post-genomic era. Based on a case study of a newly created Brazilian research and technology capability, it argues for an understanding of variety creation, where new organizational forms often transgress established scientific and organizational boundaries and arrangements. In particular, new frontiers of science and…
Urban infrastructure reconfiguration and digital platforms: Who is in control
The literature on urban sustainability transitions has grown substantially over the last two decades. Recent debates have sought to position urban transition as an incremental process of reconfiguration informed by novel relationships between existing systems of provision and new infrastructural and governing arrangements. We extend these debates by exploring how digital platformisation of urban infrastructure is challenging the organisation and …
Diffusion with distinction
How have digital mobility platforms responded to Covid-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’
Digital mobility platforms have become increasingly pervasive over the last decade or so in a wide variety of urban contexts. Much digital mobility platform activity has focused on city centres and urban cores, where returns on investment are often seen to be greatest, where existing transport infrastructure can be thick and where there are concentrated circulations of people. The global spread of coronavirus from early 2020 resulted in widesprea…
Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools
The past three decades have witnessed a period of great turbulence in the economies of biological knowledge, during which there has been great uncertainty as to how and where boundaries could be drawn between public or private knowledge especially with regard to the explosive growth in biological databases and their related bioinformatic tools. This paper will focus on some of the key software tools developed in relation to bio-databases. It will…
From platform capitalism to strategic place-based platformisation
Digital platforms have pervaded a broad sweep of urban life over the last decade and more. Urban mobility platforms have been particularly prevalent, often seeking to disrupt and provide alternatives to the existing organisation of provision. In this paper we argue that there is a need to strengthen understanding of the role of urban (governing and infrastructural) context in platform urbanism. Moving from debates around platform capitalism, wher…
Technological trajectories and R&D for environmental innovation in UK firms
Diffusion with distinction
Patrick McGovern, HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation, London: Routledge, 1998, £50.00, viii+184 pp
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
What would constitute success for UK biotechnology in 2005
This paper presents the rationale and results of a scenario exercise concerning possible future developments in UK biotechnology. The final output of this exercise is a 'consensus' vision of what success might look like for the UK in biotechnology in 2005. The 'success scenario' was developed during a two-day workshop through structured discussions in a group of people active in biotechnology in industry, research agencies, consultancies or acade…
The social and economic dimensions of biotechnology: An introduction
The UK is widely perceived to be already relatively successful in the economic performance of its edgling biotechnology activity.It has signi cant numbers of specialist biotechnology start-up companies, and its major pharmaceutical companies are leaders in the development and application of the technology.Allied to this, its science base makes a major contribution to the underpinning knowledge base through activities such as the Human Genome Proj…
Qualities of food
Quality in economics: a cognitive perspective Gilles Allaire 61 Social definitions of halal quality: the case of Maghrebi Muslims in France Florence Bergeaud-Blackler 94 Food agencies as an institutional response to policy failure by the UK and the
Brazilian genomics and bioinformatics: Instituting New Innovation Pathways in a Global Context
The paper raises issues of analysis and policy for science and technology in developing countries within the global context of the post-genomic era. Based on a case study of a newly created Brazilian research and technology capability, it argues for an understanding of variety creation, where new organizational forms often transgress established scientific and organizational boundaries and arrangements. In particular, new frontiers of science and…
Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools
The past three decades have witnessed a period of great turbulence in the economies of biological knowledge, during which there has been great uncertainty as to how and where boundaries could be drawn between public or private knowledge especially with regard to the explosive growth in biological databases and their related bioinformatic tools. This paper will focus on some of the key software tools developed in relation to bio-databases. It will…
Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools
The past three decades have witnessed a period of great turbulence in the economies of biological knowledge, during which there has been great uncertainty as to how and where boundaries could be drawn between public or private knowledge especially with regard to the explosive growth in biological databases and their related bioinformatic tools. This paper will focus on some of the key software tools developed in relation to bio-databases. It will…
Sustainability transitions and final consumption: Practices and socio-technical systems
This article examines the significance of final consumption processes for understandings of prospective transitions towards more sustainable societies. It argues that most existing conceptualisations either place too much emphasis on technology or on ‘consumer behaviour’, ignoring the deeply intertwined relationships between the two. After briefly reviewing recent contributions to the technology-oriented multi-level perspective (MLP) and to socia…
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions
This conceptual review article provides a critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research, which is currently framed by two generic positions. First, the 'reformist' position, which focuses on firms pursuing green eco-innovations and consumers buying eco-efficient products, represents the political and academic orthodoxy. Second, the 'revolutionary' position, which is a radical critique of the mainstream, advocates the aboli…
Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges
Index
Qualities of food
Quality in economics: a cognitive perspective Gilles Allaire 61 Social definitions of halal quality: the case of Maghrebi Muslims in France Florence Bergeaud-Blackler 94 Food agencies as an institutional response to policy failure by the UK and the
Series foreword
The CRIC-MUP series New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition is designed to make an important contribution to this continually expanding field of research and scholarship.As a series of edited volumes, it combines approaches and perspectives developed by CRIC's own research agenda with those of a wide range of internationally renowned scholars.A distinctive emphasis on processes of economic and social transformation frames the CRIC research pro…
Conclusion: Quality and processes of qualification
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes that quality is inevitably about controversy over standards, and presents a set of diverse and detailed observations. It analyses of what it is to make a claim that something is of better quality than something else. The book focuses on a number of contrasting approaches to quality of food. It describes that different qu…
An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions
Socio-technical scenarios as a methodological tool to explore social and political feasibility in low-carbon transitions: Bridging computer models and the multi-level perspective in UK electricity gen…
The governance practices of sharing platforms: Unpacking the interplay between social bonds and economic transactions
State-rescaling and re-designing the material city-region: Tensions of disruption and continuity in articulating the future of Greater Manchester
In a context of globalisation, the emergence of city-regions and the politics and dynamics of their constitution has been debated for almost two decades. Recent writings have extended this focus to seeing city-regions as a geopolitical project of late capitalism where the state takes a critical role in the re-design of city-regions to make them amenable to international competition and to secure strategic inward investments in the built environme…
Platform mobilities and the production of urban space: Toward a typology of platformization trajectories
The past decade has seen an explosion in what is popularly known as the "sharing economy," perhaps most visibly in the realm of transport. Digital "shared mobility" platforms like Uber, Car2Go, and Mobike, as well as emerging, more sophisticated "mobility-as-a-service" platforms which coordinate multiple discrete services into a single portal, have risen to prominence as modes of reworking everyday urban transport in cities of North America, Euro…
Global technology companies and the politics of urban socio-technical imaginaries in the digital age: Processual proxies, Trojan horses and global beachheads
In this paper, we take the concept of 'new urban spaces' as our jumping off point to engage with the efforts of Alphabet/Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs to cultivate a new integrated digital and infrastructural urban space on the Toronto waterfront. We interrogate the process and politics of imagining this new, digital urban space as an urban socio-technical imaginary. The paper critically examines the central role of 'big tech' in producing the u…
Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations
COVID‐19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with novel 15 minute neighbourhoods. Within this context, we as a diverse group of urban scholars sought to examine the emergent ‘post’‐COVID city through the production of an urban lexicon that investigates its socio‐material contours. The urban…
How have digital mobility platforms responded to Covid-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’
Digital mobility platforms have become increasingly pervasive over the last decade or so in a wide variety of urban contexts. Much digital mobility platform activity has focused on city centres and urban cores, where returns on investment are often seen to be greatest, where existing transport infrastructure can be thick and where there are concentrated circulations of people. The global spread of coronavirus from early 2020 resulted in widesprea…
Urban infrastructure reconfiguration and digital platforms: Who is in control
The literature on urban sustainability transitions has grown substantially over the last two decades. Recent debates have sought to position urban transition as an incremental process of reconfiguration informed by novel relationships between existing systems of provision and new infrastructural and governing arrangements. We extend these debates by exploring how digital platformisation of urban infrastructure is challenging the organisation and …
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