Begrüßung: Jutta Allmendinger, Präsidentin des WZB
Kommentar: Harro Albrecht, Redakteur im Ressort Wissen, DIE ZEIT
This DFG project, which was taken over by Christopher Bahn and Petra Potz in May 2002, looks at the structural change of the retail trade in three European agglomerations: Berlin, London and Milan.
Retailing and Globalization
The proposed study intends to document and analyse the importance of network governance for effiency of economic clusters related to the economic and institutional development of the property investment sector in Great Britain. The trend of the branch is very strongly shaped by path dependencies that are genuinely different from those in other European counterparts. British enterprises characteristically have a relatively high market knowledge of their respective part of the sector. Since this knowledge is bound and purposefully accumulated by certain mobile persons, a central characteristics of the British property development industry are expert networks.