Doctoral Dissertation Research in Geography & Regional Science

这个博士论文奖将使地理研究生 学生埃里克Swyngedouw进行实地考察，在欧洲经济 欧共体（EEC）与他的技术变革的研究 欧洲电信业的创新。 他 该项目将把统计数据分析与访谈结合起来， 欧洲经济共同体电信公司的高管。 候选人的研究 将特别关注电信业的作用 在“子公司“：灵活的领土生产综合体， 根据当地和区域的比较优势， 尊重国际经济的需求。 学习如何和 为什么跨国公司（特别是电信公司） 参与和塑造子公司将扩大我们的基本认识 区域经济增长和发展以及区域 国际经济结构的生产综合体。 的 电信行业是一个案例研究，将用于测试 一个新的理论框架的有效性， 互补性公司与区域和全球 每个参与公司用于竞争的战略， 国际市场。

This doctoral dissertation award will enable geography graduate student Erik Swyngedouw to conduct field work in the European Economic Community (EEC) in connection with his study of technological change and innovation in the European telecommunications industry. His project will combine analyses of statistical data with interviews with executives of EEC telecommunications firms. The candidate's research will focus especially on the role of the telecommunications industries in "filieres:" flexible territorial production complexes that are created in response to local and regional comparative advantages with respect to the demands of the international economy. Learning how and why multinational firms (particularly telecommunications companies) participate in and shape filieres will enlarge our basic understanding of regional growth and development and the relationships of regional production complexes to international economic structures. The telecommunications industry is a case study that will be used to test the validity of a new theoretical framework which ties interindustry linkages among complementary firms to the regional and global strategies each of the participating firms uses to compete in the international marketplace.