...sensitivity of firms, of governments and of the general public to variations of place across time and space: 'As spatial barriers diminish so we become much more sensitized to what the world's spaces contain' (D. Harvey 1989: 294). The specificity of place, of its workforce, the character of its entrepreneurialism,...

...accumulation (Martin and Rowthorn, 1986,- Bluestone and Harrison, 1982, Harrison and Bluestone, 1988). As spatial barriers diminish so we become much more sensitized to what the world's spaces contain. Flexible accumulation typically exploits a wide range of seemingly contingent geographical circumstances,...

...the body of capitalism we may open up the space for many alternative scripts and invite a variety of actors to participate in the realization of different...establish "webs of systematicity" between locales (Harvey and Haraway 1995). But while localization may involve certain resistances to global processes,...

...important in the decision-making processes of social actors. As David Harvey (1989: 294) has suggested: "As spatial barriers diminish so we become much more sensitized to what the world's spaces contain." Hence, in the days when capital could only be transferred across the planet (in the form of letters...

...gives transnational capital a newfound power to exploit minute spatial differentiation to good effect. "As spatial barriers diminish so we become much more sensitized to what the world's spaces contain. Flexible accumulation typically exploits a wide range of seemingly contingent geographic circumstances,...

...Harvey (1989: 294), argue that place has become more important, not less, in a globalizing world because 'as spatial barriers diminish so we become much more sensitized to what the world's spaces contain'. However, Thrift (1994 and 1996) goes beyond this reassertion of the idiographic to investigate the...