Michael Handke

Heidelberg University

Governance is both a contested concept and an increasingly empirical concern. On the one hand, it has become an almost universal and all-encompassing concept, which has attracted scholarly interest from many disciplines and over many decades to tackle the dilemmas of collective action and to facilitate effective coordination of interests and resour...

This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geo...

Chilean society is confronted with increasing risk from wildfires. Individual rather than collective risk management solutions predominate. Large forest companies, for example, reduce the probability of wildfires affecting their tree plantations with hierarchically-ordered management routines. Additionally, they purchase insurance policies to prote...

La gobernanza es a la vez un concepto controvertido y una creciente preocupación empírica relacionada con una miríada de desafíos sociales contemporáneos y dilemas de acción colectiva. El propósito de este número especial es invitar a una conversación sobre nuevos conceptos de gober-nanza y su relación con las redes y el territorio en los estudios...

The Chilean economy and society are confronted with increasing risks from forest fires. Individual rather than collective risk management solutions predominate. Large forest companies reduce the probability that forest fires affect their tree plantations with management routines of hierarchical order. Additionally, they purchase insurance policies...

Der Anteil der Beschäftigten im Dienstleistungssektor nimmt in hochindustrialisierten Volkswirtschaften stetig zu. Zugleich steigt der Dienstleistungsanteil am erwirtschafteten Bruttoinlandsprodukt – in Deutschland zuletzt auf knapp 70%. Es wäre allerdings etwas zu stark vereinfacht, daraus sogleich einen Übergang von der Industrie- zur Dienstleist...

The versatile ‘city building’ processes are in the focus of this issue. The author’s papers deal with a plurality of related issues such as the complexities of the increasing transparency of local property markets or the tight relations between city planners and (inter-)national investors. As the built environment decides on a city’s economic prosp...

Flexibility is seen as one ot tne main characteristics ot small ana medium sized enterprises (SME). However, con-cerning financial aspects this characteristic is reversed: compared to larger firms SME are financially inflexible. The paper analyses spatial aspects of financial flexibility under a systemic as well as an organizational perspective. In...

Flexible financing in Spanish industrial districts? The example of Alicante. Flexibility is seen as one of the main characteristics of small and medium sized enterprises (SME). However, concerning financial aspects this characteristic is reversed: compared to larger firms SME are financially inflexible. The paper analyses spatial aspects of financi...

Der vorliegende Bericht präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer Studie zum Dienstleistungsstandort Bayern. Das Gutachten erfolgte im Auftrag des Bayerischen Industrie- und Handelskammertags unter Förderung durch das Bayerische Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie und Federführung der IHK München und Oberbayern. Ziel der...