Search for dissertations about: "core periphery"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words core periphery.

  2. 1. Income Generation in the African and Coloured Population: Three essays on the origins of household incomes in South Africa

    Author : Sten Dieden; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Africa; South Africa; household incomes; income sources; inequality; labour; unemployment; core; periphery; multinomial logit; endogeneity;

    Abstract : The dissertation comprises three empirical analyses focusing on the origins of South African households? income sources. The income sources are categorized to reflect the households? varying extent of economic core sector integration. READ MORE

  4. 2. Apple world : core and periphery in a transnational organizational culture

    Author : Christina Garsten; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Apple Computer; Interkulturell kommunikation; Organisationssociologi;

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  5. 3. Explorations in the New Economic Geography

    Author : Fredrik Gallo; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Internationell ekonomi; International commerce; Majority Voting; Core-Periphery Model; Market Size Effect; Spatial Cournot Competition; Technological Lock-In; Technological Leapfrogging; Agglomeration; New Economic Geography;

    Abstract : The point of departure of this thesis is the rapidly growing research field known as the New Economic Geography (NEG). It consists of four chapters, one introductory chapter and three self-contained theoretical studies. The chapters may be summarised as follows. The first chapter gives a brief account of the NEG. READ MORE

  6. 4. Understanding regional renewal and industry cluster emergence processes within the Swedish periphery

    Author : Andrew Arbuthnott; Joakim Wincent; Jessica Eriksson; Peter Zettinig; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industry emergence processes; regional renewal; industry clusters; periherial regions; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : There are many insightful writings revealing that regions within industrialised nations are able to renew their local business environments through building and supporting industry clusters. Such knowledge stems from research based on how to maintain and develop successful industry clusters located within central regions. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Golden Fleece of the Cape : Capitalist expansion and labour relations in the periphery of transnational wool production, c. 1860–1950

    Author : Fredrik Lilja; Jan Lindegren; Jimmy Engren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; capitalist expansion; transnational production; commodity chains; accumulation of capital; labour relations; shepherds; wool farming; fencing; environment; generational division of labour; gendered division of labour; imperialism; capitalism; British Empire; Rosa Luxemburg; South Africa; the Cape; eastern Cape.; Historia; History;

    Abstract : This thesis is about the organisation, character and change of labour relations in expanding capitalist wool farming in the Cape between 1860 and 1950. It is an attempt to analyse labour in wool farming within a transnational framework, based on an expansion of capital from core to periphery of the capitalist world-economy. READ MORE