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Andrew Cumbers
Researcher at University of Glasgow
Publications - 132
Citations - 5066
Andrew Cumbers is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: Globalization & Agency (sociology). The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 129 publications receiving 4415 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew Cumbers include Middlesex University & Adam Smith Institute.
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Learning, innovation and regional development: a critical appraisal of recent debates
TL;DR: A resurgence of interest in the region as a scale of economic organization has been apparent within economic geography over the past decade or so as mentioned in this paper, in view of the apparent shift towards a knowledge-based approach.
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Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Political Economy, and Adaptation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a sympathetic critique and elaboration of this emergent EEG but take issue with some aspects of its characterization in recent programmatic statements, arguing that the reliance on certain theoretical frameworks that are imported from evolutionary economics and complexity science threatens to isolate it from other approaches in economic geography, limiting the opportunities for crossfertilization.
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Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the International Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers Federation (ICEM) is presented, where union strategies evolve through contested socio-spatial relations both within unions themselves and with other social actors.
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Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives
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Rethinking Path Creation: A Geographical Political Economy Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critical appraisal of the state of the art in path creation research and develop a systematic theoretical framework based on the identification of key dimensions of path creation and their constitutive interrelations.