Business and Professional Networks: Scope and Outcomes in Oxfordshire

Helen Lawton Smith, Saverio Romeo and Malika Virahsawmy
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Malika Virahsawmy: School of Geography, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, England

Environment and Planning A, 2012, vol. 44, issue 8, 1801-1818

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between formal networks, such as business and occupationally based professional networks, and place in determining network patterns and types in regional economic development. It distinguishes between ‘network-rich’ and ‘network-poor’ regions and considers why and how formal networks operate as a service and a resource to participants and as components of regional business infrastructures. Formal networks in the Oxfordshire to Cambridge Arc in the UK are used to illustrate these points.

Keywords: formal networks; place; public policy; regional infrastructures; Oxfordshire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1068/a44461

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