Andrew Currah
Biographic Data
| ID | 305990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Currah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Currah |
| SIGNATURE | CURRAH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Hollywood, the Internet and the World: A Geography of Disruptive Innovation
During the past decade, the Hollywood studios have broadly sought to subdue, rather than explore, the technological possibilities of the Internet. Specifically, the studios have used their ownership of creative works to control the speed and direction of innovation in an emerging digitally networked social and economic environment, which is built upon the Internet and an ecology of hardware and software technologies. In this paper, I use a relati…
Managing creativity: The Tensions Between Commodities and Gifts in a Digital Networked Environment
In this paper, I critically examine the management of creativity in a digital networked economic and social environment, which broadly comprises high-speed Internet connections and a diverse ecology of devices and other infrastructure. The non-rivalrous and non-excludable characteristics of information, in this environment, pose distinct challenges for the industrial producers of creativity (such as film studios, publishing houses, record labels)…
Hollywood versus the Internet: The media and entertainment industries in a digital and networked economy
The behaviour of oligopolistic firms is a source of considerable debate and concern, given their market power and ability to shape the development of new markets. A key area of debate concerns the scope for strategic adaptation in oligopolies; and in particular, the extent to which such large and otherwise successful firms ignore or marginalize important shifts in the marketplace. In this article, I critically evaluate these general theoretical i…
Economic Geographies: Circuits, Flows and Spaces. By Ray Hudson
Globalizing retail and the ‘new e-conomy’: The organizational challenge of e-commerce for the retail TNCs
Globalizing retail: Conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation (TNC)
In this article we argue that the retail transnational corporation (TNC) is an entity that merits urgent theoretical and empirical investigation from economic geographers. Using recent theoretical developments that conceptualize TNCs as the complex nexus of intrafirm, interfirm and extrafirm relational networks, we explore the special characteristics of retail TNCs that distinguish them from their manufacturing counterparts, still the predominant…
The Consumption Reader
"The Consumption Reader." , 94(2), pp. 440–441Key Words: consumptionconsumer societyidentitymodernity Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew CurrahReviewed by
Networks of organizational learning and adaptation in retail TNCs
In this article we contribute to a growing body of literature concerned with the socio-cultural dynamics of learning and adaptation inside firms. Specifically, we apply a 'competence-based' view of the firm to a newly emerging breed of retail-industry transnational corporations (TNCs). We situate these firms within the context of 'relational networks' and then consider - from a geographical perspective - the complex interplay between 'extra-firm'…
The Virtual Geographies of Retail Display
This article explores the commercial website as a virtual landscape of consumption, and considers how six Canadian retailers are displaying this landscape to entice a rapidly growing community of surfers. The article argues that the virtual geographies of retail display are determined by the interplay between corporate philosophies and the specificities of the market sector. In turn, the resultant ‘experiential space’ of the web store can be thou…
Digital effects in the spatial economy of film: Towards a research agenda
A new assemblage of digital technologies, organized around compressed software formats and broadband Internet infrastructures, is reconfiguring the motion picture industry. In this paper, I review the impacts of digitization upon the spatial economy of film in the United States via a commodity chain framework. The discussion raises some important themes for conceptual debate in economic geography
Investment Bank Analysts and Knowledge in Economic Geography
Retailing and E-Tailing
Behind the Web Store: The Organisational and Spatial Evolution of Multichannel Retailing in Toronto
In this paper I address two issues of general relevance to contemporary debates in economic geography: first, the organisational and spatial implications of new information technologies for the economic landscape; and, second, the enduring role of place to digital capitalism. Specifically, I examine the organisational evolution of multichannel retailing in Toronto from a geographical perspective. Bricks-and-mortar retailers are increasingly pursu…
Globalizing retail: Conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation (TNC)
In this article we argue that the retail transnational corporation (TNC) is an entity that merits urgent theoretical and empirical investigation from economic geographers. Using recent theoretical developments that conceptualize TNCs as the complex nexus of intrafirm, interfirm and extrafirm relational networks, we explore the special characteristics of retail TNCs that distinguish them from their manufacturing counterparts, still the predominant…
Networks of organizational learning and adaptation in retail TNCs
In this article we contribute to a growing body of literature concerned with the socio-cultural dynamics of learning and adaptation inside firms. Specifically, we apply a 'competence-based' view of the firm to a newly emerging breed of retail-industry transnational corporations (TNCs). We situate these firms within the context of 'relational networks' and then consider - from a geographical perspective - the complex interplay between 'extra-firm'…
Retailing and E-Tailing
Globalizing retail and the ‘new e-conomy’: The organizational challenge of e-commerce for the retail TNCs
Managing creativity: The Tensions Between Commodities and Gifts in a Digital Networked Environment
In this paper, I critically examine the management of creativity in a digital networked economic and social environment, which broadly comprises high-speed Internet connections and a diverse ecology of devices and other infrastructure. The non-rivalrous and non-excludable characteristics of information, in this environment, pose distinct challenges for the industrial producers of creativity (such as film studios, publishing houses, record labels)…
Behind the Web Store: The Organisational and Spatial Evolution of Multichannel Retailing in Toronto
In this paper I address two issues of general relevance to contemporary debates in economic geography: first, the organisational and spatial implications of new information technologies for the economic landscape; and, second, the enduring role of place to digital capitalism. Specifically, I examine the organisational evolution of multichannel retailing in Toronto from a geographical perspective. Bricks-and-mortar retailers are increasingly pursu…
Hollywood versus the Internet: The media and entertainment industries in a digital and networked economy
The behaviour of oligopolistic firms is a source of considerable debate and concern, given their market power and ability to shape the development of new markets. A key area of debate concerns the scope for strategic adaptation in oligopolies; and in particular, the extent to which such large and otherwise successful firms ignore or marginalize important shifts in the marketplace. In this article, I critically evaluate these general theoretical i…
Investment Bank Analysts and Knowledge in Economic Geography
Digital effects in the spatial economy of film: Towards a research agenda
A new assemblage of digital technologies, organized around compressed software formats and broadband Internet infrastructures, is reconfiguring the motion picture industry. In this paper, I review the impacts of digitization upon the spatial economy of film in the United States via a commodity chain framework. The discussion raises some important themes for conceptual debate in economic geography
The Virtual Geographies of Retail Display
This article explores the commercial website as a virtual landscape of consumption, and considers how six Canadian retailers are displaying this landscape to entice a rapidly growing community of surfers. The article argues that the virtual geographies of retail display are determined by the interplay between corporate philosophies and the specificities of the market sector. In turn, the resultant ‘experiential space’ of the web store can be thou…
Retailing and E-Tailing
Behind the Web Store: The Organisational and Spatial Evolution of Multichannel Retailing in Toronto
In this paper I address two issues of general relevance to contemporary debates in economic geography: first, the organisational and spatial implications of new information technologies for the economic landscape; and, second, the enduring role of place to digital capitalism. Specifically, I examine the organisational evolution of multichannel retailing in Toronto from a geographical perspective. Bricks-and-mortar retailers are increasingly pursu…
The Virtual Geographies of Retail Display
This article explores the commercial website as a virtual landscape of consumption, and considers how six Canadian retailers are displaying this landscape to entice a rapidly growing community of surfers. The article argues that the virtual geographies of retail display are determined by the interplay between corporate philosophies and the specificities of the market sector. In turn, the resultant ‘experiential space’ of the web store can be thou…
Digital effects in the spatial economy of film: Towards a research agenda
A new assemblage of digital technologies, organized around compressed software formats and broadband Internet infrastructures, is reconfiguring the motion picture industry. In this paper, I review the impacts of digitization upon the spatial economy of film in the United States via a commodity chain framework. The discussion raises some important themes for conceptual debate in economic geography
Investment Bank Analysts and Knowledge in Economic Geography
The Consumption Reader
"The Consumption Reader." , 94(2), pp. 440–441Key Words: consumptionconsumer societyidentitymodernity Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew CurrahReviewed by
Networks of organizational learning and adaptation in retail TNCs
In this article we contribute to a growing body of literature concerned with the socio-cultural dynamics of learning and adaptation inside firms. Specifically, we apply a 'competence-based' view of the firm to a newly emerging breed of retail-industry transnational corporations (TNCs). We situate these firms within the context of 'relational networks' and then consider - from a geographical perspective - the complex interplay between 'extra-firm'…
Globalizing retail and the ‘new e-conomy’: The organizational challenge of e-commerce for the retail TNCs
Globalizing retail: Conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation (TNC)
In this article we argue that the retail transnational corporation (TNC) is an entity that merits urgent theoretical and empirical investigation from economic geographers. Using recent theoretical developments that conceptualize TNCs as the complex nexus of intrafirm, interfirm and extrafirm relational networks, we explore the special characteristics of retail TNCs that distinguish them from their manufacturing counterparts, still the predominant…
Hollywood versus the Internet: The media and entertainment industries in a digital and networked economy
The behaviour of oligopolistic firms is a source of considerable debate and concern, given their market power and ability to shape the development of new markets. A key area of debate concerns the scope for strategic adaptation in oligopolies; and in particular, the extent to which such large and otherwise successful firms ignore or marginalize important shifts in the marketplace. In this article, I critically evaluate these general theoretical i…
Economic Geographies: Circuits, Flows and Spaces. By Ray Hudson
Hollywood, the Internet and the World: A Geography of Disruptive Innovation
During the past decade, the Hollywood studios have broadly sought to subdue, rather than explore, the technological possibilities of the Internet. Specifically, the studios have used their ownership of creative works to control the speed and direction of innovation in an emerging digitally networked social and economic environment, which is built upon the Internet and an ecology of hardware and software technologies. In this paper, I use a relati…
Managing creativity: The Tensions Between Commodities and Gifts in a Digital Networked Environment
In this paper, I critically examine the management of creativity in a digital networked economic and social environment, which broadly comprises high-speed Internet connections and a diverse ecology of devices and other infrastructure. The non-rivalrous and non-excludable characteristics of information, in this environment, pose distinct challenges for the industrial producers of creativity (such as film studios, publishing houses, record labels)…
Business (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Market economy (4 works) · Telecommunications (4 works)