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This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that these factors have often been neglected in family business and regional studies. Taking this research gap into account, the book aims to deepen our understanding of the role family firms play in the regional economy. In particular, it explores two seldom studied questions. Firstly, what role do family firms play in regional development? Secondly, how do different spatial regional contexts shape family firm operations and performance? Family Business and Regional Development presents a model of "spatial familiness" and uses themes such as productivity, networks and competitiveness to shed new light on family businesses. Moreover, it approaches the juxtaposition between family business and regional studies to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas, theories, and research methods between the two fields. Bringing together leading experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics, and economic geography, this book will be a valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers interested in family firms, regional studies and economic geography.

Business & Economics --- Industrial Management --- Entrepreneurship --- Small businesses & self-employed --- economic geography --- entrepreneurship --- family business --- family enterprise --- family firms --- management geography --- regional competitiveness --- regional development --- regional economics --- regional familiness --- regional science --- regional studies

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One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change.For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-o

Sustainable urban development. --- Urban policy --- City planning --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Environmental aspects. --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Urban renewal --- Environmentally sustainable urban development --- Sustainable development --- Environmental aspects --- RSA --- Urban Development --- Cities in Developing Countries --- South African Cities --- Indian Cities --- Sustainability --- Sustainable Development --- Regional Development --- Regional Science --- Regional Studies --- Sally Hardy --- Spatial Economics --- The City --- Urban Studies

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The various regions within the EU are marked by a high degree of disparity with regard to their economic performance and productivity, and as regards their labour markets. Facing these regional differences, the task of regional and spatial sciences is to develop concepts and strategies to reduce and prevent territorial imbalances. Thus "territorial cohesion" stands for a more balanced spatial development, and aims to improve integration throughout the EU. Although the term is used in many EU documents and strategies, its meaning remains vague and unclear. The scientific articles in this annual deal with the interpretations of this term, the challenges of European spatial development policy, and the problems and concepts involved in achieving territorial cohesion. Furthermore two short reports illustrate the implementation of territorial cohesion on the basis of two research projects.

Geography. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Geography (general). --- Civil Engineering. --- Regional Science. --- Human Geography. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Regional planning. --- Civil engineering. --- Environmental law. --- Géographie --- Aménagement du territoire --- Génie civil --- Environnement --- Droit --- European Union. --- Regional disparities -- European Union countries. --- Regionalism -- European Union countries. --- Sociology & Social History --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Social Sciences --- Regional disparities --- Regional planning --- Space in economics. --- Territory, National --- Social aspects --- Germany --- Economic conditions --- National territory --- Spatial economics --- Disparities, Regional --- Urban planning. --- Environmental policy. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Human geography. --- Geography, general. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Boundaries --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regionalism