Linking scales: or how research about gender and organizations raises new issues for economic geography
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: One of the key geographical organizing concepts is that of scale. In the last few years, there has been an interesting debate about the nature of scale and its relational character, constructed through and reinforcing social relations of power. In this paper, I suggest that the rapid growth of a literature about gender and organizations, largely ignored by geographers, might profitably be brought into juxtaposition with geographical analyses of economic restructuring to suggest both new ways of thinking about the scale and about the organization. As organizations become increasingly transnational in their operation, interesting new questions about connections, networks and hierarchies and the governance of different aspects of the organization and the economy arise at different spatial scales.
Source: Journal of Economic Geography
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/1.2.227
Author: L. McDowell
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1991602844