Strategic behavior and development sequences in producer service businesses
The AA. address this topic by illustrating types of strategic behaviors, developing a taxonomy of firm segments, and relating types of strategic behavior to this taxonomy. The paper is based on results from 444 in-depth interviews. Key variables
addressed in the anbalysis are drawn from the industrial sociology and business strategy literature and include organizational structure, age, dynamic of client and geographic markets, and changes in services supplied.
The A. deals with the origin of the Caprivi name, the history of the territory with its physico-geographical conditions, population and with its strategic-economic significance. (CK).
Development strategy ; Environmental management ; Geographical information system ; Participation ; Planning ; Project ; Socio-economic indicators ; Strategic planning
The paper describes experiences with Stra.S.S.E. Project (Strategic Spatial Planning and Sustainable Environment) that was aimed at enhancing a participatory approach to spatial and environmental planning. Four teams from three partner countries
divided the roles and tasks in the project. The main goals of the project, obtained by participatory processes, were oriented at developing strategic planning methodologies for the project-areas by using, as monitoring tools, a set of environmental, social
Using aspects on the recent literatures on (post)colonialism, the A. seeks to draw out some of the threads of Cornish writings on empire and strategic geography. These writings differ from those of Mackinder. This essay is a contribution to some
of the current debates on writing histories of geographical knowledge.
Physical planning and Geographical information: a reconnaissance of Geo-IT Methodology
Geographical information system ; Information ; Methodology ; Netherlands (The) ; Planning ; Resource management ; Technology
This study deals with geographical information technology known as Geo-IT. Specifically, it focuses on the function of Geo-IT as an instument to support policy in the field of physical planning. As far as now, Geo-IT is largely limited
to aplications in lower-order planning activities and it is very rarely applied to higher planning activities in the framework of strategic spatial policy. The author attempts to explain why this function is only partially fulfilled. - (AGD)
This article highlights an understudied phenomenon : the relationship between space and war. The relationship between war and space is presented at two main levels, tactical and strategic. It is argued that despite many changes in relations between
war and space, physical space remains a key issue in any war and, as such, geographers should examine it. Such an examination cannot be limited to critical approaches or geographers will fall short in competition with scholars from other fields
Retrospect and prospect of Geographical Sciences in China : A comparison with the Strategic Directions for Geography in the USA
60 dernières années, les géographes chinois ont associé pratique et théorie avec des perspectives interdisciplinaires. Leur but principal est la recherche d'un macrosystème terrestre ouvert et complexe (non seulement scientifique mais aussi humaniste
[b4] School of Geographical Sciences, Normal Univ., Nanjing, Chine
based on the formation of multiple strategic capabilities. This is however, under the influence of the organizational heritage of the company, the operating context of the supply chain and requires a geographical reconfiguration of the supply chain
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is not just an environmental methodology but should be an integrated, iterative element of the land-use planning and decision-making processes in order to achieve the aim of sustainable development
. The article presents the history of the SEA in a geographical view. Some basic statements and experience are also available in the paper, showing the latest problems and questions of the introduction of SEA in Hungary. - (AM)
Systems theory has been proposed as an essential means of healing the breach between human and physical geography and as providing a solution to the problem of geographical description. Following Habermas's critical theory, both of these tasks can
be seen to revolve around an interest in technical control which is, in some sense, structurally-determined. There are strategic connections between such an interest and the way in which systems theory conceives of objectification, regulation
Spatial analysis of a historical phenomenon : using GIS to demonstrate the strategic placement of Umayyad desert palaces
Communication ; Desert ; Eighth Century ; Geographical information system ; Historical geography ; Islam ; Jordan ; Location ; Spatial analysis ; Trade ; Water resources
The AA. undertake a geographically sensitive analysis of Quebec's 2007 Bouchard-Taylor Commis-sion to demonstrate how ignorance of Aboriginal realities works strategically to sustain unequally occupied rhetorical and material space. They analyze how
Baltic Sea ; Coastal environment ; Environment ; Finland ; Geographical information system ; Hydrochemistry ; Marine biology ; Phytoplankton ; Sampling ; Surface water ; Water quality
. Strategic planning of sampling is required to achieve more concerted data generation activities and to facilitate long-term spatially representative analyses.
Geographical political economy and resource development
analysis, 1980–2010 ; 2-Polanyi in the Pilbara ; 3-Thinking through the Pilbara ; 4-Conceptualising the state, governance and development in a semi-peripheral resource economy : the evolution of state agreements in Western Australian , 5-Strategic coupling
Brazil ; Environmental management ; Geographical information system ; Land use ; Minas Gerais ; Simulation ; Soil erosion ; Water erosion ; Watershed
identification of the susceptible areas to water erosion and estimate of the sediment delivery ratio for the adoption of land management so that further soil loss can be minimized. This basin is strategic for future development of the Minas Gerais State
The coordinated development of industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization (hereinafter referred to as Sihua) is not only a practical need but an important strategic direction of integrating urban-rural
[b1] Inst. of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing, Chine