Worldwide Knowledge?: Global Firms, Local Labour and the Region

Putting forward a comprehensive view of knowledge with a specific perspective on place and space, this book provides a new perspective on the globalisation of knowledge. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the principal agenda of this volume is to open up a perspective ‘beyond knowledge’- i.e. beyond the interpretation of knowledge as scientific-technical knowledge. It also introduces further kinds of knowledge and interpretation which influence managements’ perception of globalisation and th...