The industrial enterprise and its environment - Sergio Conti

In a period when the economic and social sciences are being affected by the rise of new concepts and theoretical proposals, a work which gives a comparative critical examination of the problems they raise is still lacking. At the same time, the theme of the relationship between the global and local dimensions of development
which dominates contemporary social sciences
seems to have produced only occasional reflections so far in industrial geography. The volume has three main objectives: to illustrate the trends of theoretical analysis in contemporary industrial geography; to establish the strategic central role of company spatial behaviour through the understanding of new theories developed in the framework of managerial sciences and theoretically and conceptually advanced in industrial geography; to reconceptualize in terms of complex systems theory the dynamic of industrial enterprise, in a historical period when the local (territorial) dimension of development is structurally bound to the success of economic and social processes of a virtually global scale.