Making global connections : a geographer's perspective / 'Placing' firms : grounding the debate on the 'global' corporation / Globalization, transnationalism, and the Asia-Pacific / marginalization of everywhere? Emerging geographies of emerging markets / globalization of environmental management : international investment in the water, waste-water and solid waste industries / spatial life of things : the real world of practice within the global firm / Spaces of corporate learning / might of 'might' : how social power is being refigured / Beyond the cluster - local milieus and global connections / Making global rules : globalization or neoliberalization? / Globalization : Faustian bargain, development saviour or more of the same? The case of the developing world and the emerging international trade regime / 'Glocalization' as a state spatial strategy : urban entrepreneurialism and the new politics of uneven development in Western Europe / Global production systems and European integration : de-regionalizing, re-regionalizing and re-scaling production systems in Europe