Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Agrawal ◽  
Iain Cockburn ◽  
Carlos Rosell
Keyword(s):  
Company Towns

scholarly journals Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960.

1992 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 1292
Author(s):  
David A. Corbin ◽  
Crandall A. Shifflett
Keyword(s):  
Southern Appalachia ◽  
Company Towns ◽  
Life Work

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF COMPANY TOWNS

2014 ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
E. V. Reznikova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
State Support ◽  
Company Towns ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Single Industry ◽  
Medium Businesses ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Made In

The development of small and medium enterprises (SME) plays an important role in the comprehensive modernization of the economy of single-industry towns, acting as a factor of its growth and diversification. The analysis of the dynamics of the development of SME of non-diversified municipal formations and directions of its state support was made, suggestions on the monitoring organization of statistical factors of SME in single-industry towns and on the development of comprehensive investment plans on modernization of single-industry towns were made in a part of the development and support of small and medium businesses in single-industry towns.

scholarly journals Company towns and the governmentality of desired identities

2019 ◽  
pp. 001872671988722
Author(s):  
Elham Moonesirust ◽  
Andrew D Brown
Keyword(s):  
Company Town ◽  
Company Towns ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
A Company

How do people living in a company town come to desire to work for the firm that controls it? Based on an in-depth case study of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany, we make two principal contributions. First, drawing on Foucault’s concept of governmentality we investigate the mechanisms of power within which desired identities are shaped. Desired identities, we argue, are one means by which organizations exercise control over local populations. Second, we examine the multiple interlocking discourses by which Volkswagen sought to regulate the life of Wolfsburgers and to form their desired identities. In doing so, we contribute to identity research by demonstrating how biopower and discipline work in combination in neoliberal societies to make the governmentality of employee identity possible. Our research underlines the importance of studying company towns for understanding the relations of power that shape the lives and the identities of employees.

scholarly journals Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960.

1993 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Pudup ◽  
Crandall A. Shifflett
Keyword(s):  
Southern Appalachia ◽  
Company Towns ◽  
Life Work
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