URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS

Housing Studies has become the leading housing journal and has played a major role in theoretical and analytical developments within this area of study. The journal has explored a range of academic and policy concerns including the following: linkages between housing and other areas of social and economic policy the role of housing in everyday life and in gender, class and age relationships the economics of housing expenditure and housing finance international comparisons and developments issues of sustainability and housing development demographic and social trends and the changing role of housing tenures theoretical and conceptual frameworks for housing studie

Decades of diminishing federal leadership and support for affordable housing policy have opened up a gap in public response to housing needs. Filling this gap is critical if the long-held goal of decent (and affordable) housing for every American is to be honored and communities are to thrive. This article investigates state governments in an era of federal retreat by examining the factors associated with innovations in housing policy in California and New Jersey, two reputed leaders in state housing policy. We collected data through interviews with key informants, as well as from meetings, reports, public documents, agency records, and other secondary sources. Our analysis indicates that state innovations in housing policy are influenced by bureaucratic (internal) factors, such as funding and agency structure, and by environmental (external) factors, such as local autonomy and interest group activity. We conclude with the policy and research implications of our finding

Housing Policy Debate provides a venue for original research on U.S. housing policy. Subjects include affordable housing policy, fair housing policy, land use regulations influencing housing affordability, metropolitan development trends, and linkages among housing policy and energy, environmental, and transportation policy. Housing Policy Debate is published quarterly. Most issues feature a Forum section and an Articles section. The Forum, which highlights a current debate, features a central article and responding comments that represent a range of perspectives. All articles in the Forum and Articles sections undergo a double-blind peer review process. On a recurring basis, Housing Policy Debate also features an Outlook section where the editors, occasionally with expert guest writers, comment on emerging areas of housing and metropolitan research or current events

Housing Policy Debate provides a venue for original research on U.S. housing policy. Subjects include affordable housing policy, fair housing policy, land use regulations influencing housing affordability, metropolitan development trends, and linkages among housing policy and energy, environmental, and transportation policy

Christopherson S., Clark J. (2007) Power in firm networks: what it means for regional innovation systems, Regional Studies 41, 1223-1236. The role of power within regional firm networks is noted in empirical studies but insufficiently theorized. It is suggested that network functioning is conflictual and that more powerful network members, particularly transnational corporations (TNCs), leverage regional resources to advance their sustainable competitive advantage. The agendas and power exercised by TNCs within regionalized firm networks have significant implications for regional policy and the uneven allocation of resources and capacities within and among regions. The findings indicate that transnational firm access to resources that are critical to innovation, including university research and skilled labour, negatively affects the potential for innovation by small and medium-size firms

What happens when previously autonomous firms from different countries, each with their own identities, routines and capabilities, come together inside a single multinational corporation? Can a cooperative strategy be established that advances the development of the multinational as a whole, or do mutual misunderstandings and the unintended consequences of strategic interaction among the players' lead instead to endemic conflict and disintegration? This book tackles these novel and important questions through an empirical study of the strategic constitution of an 'actually existing' multinational. It does so by tracing the historical construction of the multinational corporation from the confluence of multiple formerly independent firms and analyzing the interacting web of strategies pursued by different actors within it. The analysis reveals how workers, unionists, subsidiary managers, and corporate executives pursue separate strategic games rooted in their local contexts, whose global outcome contrasts sharply with idealized views of the multinational as an integrated and coordinated organization. By comparing these findings to those of the broader literature, the book proceeds to a theoretical examination of the challenges of managing the multinational, and the difficulties of resolving them through conventional organizational means. The authors propose new procedural solutions aimed at fostering mutual recognition and knowledge exchange within the multinational corporation, and explore how a multinational public may be created to press for the necessary reforms in corporate governance. As the success of such reforms is far from preordained, the book concludes with a series of alternative scenarios that illustrate the many obstacles to a smooth continuation of the globalization process. This is an important and original study of significance for researchers, academics, and advanced students of international business, business strategy, comparative management a

Depuis mars 2005, la revue Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales (NPSS) entend accompagner les chercheurs qui s'aventurent dans de nouveaux espaces des sciences sociales. Dans cet espace pourront être diffusés les travaux qui, sans évidemment sacrifier à la rigueur, osent proposer des analyses qui sont capables de surmonter des obstacles qui s'élèvent devant les modélisations instituées. Elle ne se pose pas en rupture par rapport à ces modélisations. Elle en connaît la puissance. Mais cette reconnaissance ne lui suffit pas pour interdire qu'on affronte les modèles établis, qu'on les contourne ou qu'on s'en affranchisse. Car toute puissance porte en elle ses faiblesses, peut aussi bien propulser que handicaper, favoriser la découverte que l'empêcher. NPSS se veut ouverte à toutes les disciplines des sciences sociales, à chacune d'elles aussi bien qu'à leurs combinaisons. Tous les textes sont publiés en français.

Évoquer le vocable « politiques urbaines temporelles » ou « politiques territoriales temporelles » est une nouveauté. Associer les politiques publiques, locales notamment, à des formes de régulation des temporalités urbaines, au moment où celles-ci sont rythmées par l'individualisation des pratiques quotidiennes, peut même apparaître comme une ambition démesurée par rapport aux marges de manœuvre dont disposent les pouvoirs publics locaux.

Es una revista trimestral especializada, dentro del amplio campo de las Ciencias Sociales, en la región disciplinar específicamente investigada por las disciplinas del Espacio Territorial, allí donde convergen las materias relacionadas con el espacio social, tales como la Ecología, la Geografía Humana, la Urbanística, la Ordenación Territorial y el Urbanismo, en suma, en lo que se ha denominado la Coranomía

Numéro 52, Automne 2004, p. 4-169 Le territoire, instrument providentiel de l'État social Sous la direction de Philippe Estèbe et Annick Germain

Informações da melhor qualidade, com destaque para os Working Paper sobre o Desenvolvimento Institucional e Real Estates cubano.

Exclente "exposição de motivos" de um Programa de Trabalho focado na interface da Economica Regional com a Economia dos Transporte. Parte dos elementos essenciais para caraterização da problemática e chega aos questões relevantes: a construção de um conhecimento que ancore a formulação de uma politica estrategica, a partir de uma pesquisa, fundada na distinção entre nodes and linkages, e focada ina dinamica da gestão i) das regiões metropolitanas e suas infraestruura porturarias. com enfase nas estrutras de interação nas cidades, regiões e portos, tais como clusters e modelos de governança e, na gestão ii) das cadeias logisticas e sistemas de transportes focado na criação e regulação dos mercados em transporte e logisitca, a exemplo da (des)regulação do mercado de trasnportes, ascensão dos provedores de serviços logisticos, novos mercados para financiamento privado de infraestrutura e a estrutura no mercado de navegação. Em resumo, sistematização de uma agenda que o GT Transporte e Logstica do Grupo da Piedade, tem como telos.

Pode-se admitir hoje que a associação dos portos com o desenvolvimento  regional é uma das nossas heranças colonial, quando cada uma das provincias (maritimas), a exemplo de Paraiba, Pernanbuco, Alagoas, Bahia escova sua produção por meio dos seus sistemas de transporte provincial (ferrovia e porto).Hoje a associação é, pelo menos para determinados tipos de cargas, insustentável,  isto porque o transporte conteinerizado (container transport)  que cresce acima da média revela-se "um dos tipos de carga menos cativo" estimulando a concorrência portuária, ou seja, a ampliação ou redução dos hinterland portuarios,  a partir da adoção de um conjunto de medidas políticas portuárias focada na facilitação do acesso ao transporte maritimo a ao seu interland. Este artigo apresenta um modelo que toma como referencia a cadeia logística para  calcular o impacto das politicas que visam  facilitar (e reduzir os custos) da conexão dos portos com as embarcações e com seu  hinteland.O resultado pode ser considerado um subsidio ao formulador de uma  estratégia portuária, chamando atenção que a competitividade de um porto  não se reduz a suas tarifas aparentes (o custo do serviço portuário), mas a custo real no qual se incorpora as tarifas, mas o custo indireto expresso, de um lado na conexão com seu hinterland (bacia de cargas)  e, do outro lado, nos custos de de armazenamento diretos (as despesas do armaazenamento no sentido estrito) e indiretos (os custos do capital imobilizado nas mercadorias armazenadas.

O custo social (custo privado + custo externo) dos trasnportes urbano é uma informação extremamente relevante, já que nela que se fundamenta as decisões governamentais sobre dos diferentes modos de transportes. Esta é uma questão que mobiliza a Sara na elaboração do artigo na disciplina Economia dos Trasnportes. No Brasil temos muito o que fazer neste âmbito.