The Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business

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CORPORATE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE FLOWS

From glass pipelines to dark pools

Philip Cooke

Introduction

This chapter focuses on the Economic Geography of corporate learning and knowledge flows. The chapter presents accounts of the sometimes convergent and sometimes divergent knowledge and learning pathways that informed the evolution of business knowledge and organisational learning in the corporate space economy until today. It will conclude by referencing three major trends. First, the emergence of “postsocial” knowledge and learning that begins to supersede human cognition. Second, it traces the growth of the quaternary economy and its implications for economic growth, profitability and innovation. Here new models of “recombinant” or ...