Overview
Recently, the international division of labour in industrial production has grown increasingly more volatile. The separation between 'high-end' tasks undertaken in the traditional core economies and 'low-end' tasks undertaken in newly emerging economies has become increasingly blurred. The new dynamics and unpredictability of actor and process configurations in internationalized production bring new challenges for research in economic geography, regional economics and management sciences. The allocation of R&D and production mandates within or between enterprises, the setting up, closing down, purchase or sale of subsidiaries at different localities, the shifting patterns of collaborative innovation, together with newly evolving forms of capitalism, all appear to interact in ways not seen before. It appears we have entered a new era termed 'industrial transition'. This book forms the first approach toward conceptualising the term and compiling illustrative empirical underpinnings. Contributions by an international set of renowned economic geographers highlight the major features and case studies of 'industrial transition' and address various questions that matter for the future of our global economy: How are regions and localities affected by the shift of product mandates? In which ways do changes differ between industrial sectors and economic regions? How can regions and localities adequately prepare for or react to foreseeable changes; and how can regional resilience and response capacities be built and enhanced?
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Author: Martina Fuchs , Martina Fromhold-Eisebith , Prof Dr. Christine Tamasy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781409431213
ISBN 10: 1409431215
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 30 May 2012
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Contents: Preface; Changing global-local dynamics of economic development? Coining the new conceptual framework of 'industrial transition', Martina Fromhold-Eisebith and Martina Fuchs; Industry, enterprise, economic growth and recession: forgotten issues in economic geography, Michael Taylor; The transition of the automotive industry as a catalyst for cross-border networking? The case of the greater region SaarLorLux, Christoph K. Hahn; Industrial restructuring by financial investors? Buy-and-build strategies in the German automotive supplier industry from 2000 to 2010, Christoph Scheuplein; Flexible specialization - 30 years after the 'second industrial divide'; lessons from the German mechanical engineering industry in the crisis 2008 to 2010, Martina Fuchs and Hanno Kempermann; Organisation and representation of temporary workers, Dorit Meyer; Industry transition and knowledge-based sectors: changing economic governance and institutional arrangements in the Scottish life sciences, Kean Birch and Andrew Cumbers; Strategic coupling between multinational subsidiaries and KIBS as a mode of regional industrial transition, Leo van Grunsven, Wouter Jacobs, Oedzge Atzema, and Ton van Rietenbergen; Regional growth dynamics: intra-firm adjustment vs organizational ecology, Harald Bathelt and Andrew M. Munro; Transnational entrepreneurs and the global shift of production: the example of diamond manufacturing, Sebastian Henn; China as a Western musical instrument producer: case study of the piano industry, Shiuh-Shen Chien, Jici Wang, Yu Ho and Mingbo Ma; Spatial and organisational transition of an East Asian high-growth region: the electronics industry in the Greater Pearl River delta, Daniel Schiller; Economic competitiveness, 'glurbanisation' and 'soft' spatial interventions: insights from four Australasian cities, Steffen Wetzstein; Conclusion: towards a refined conceptualization of the industrial transition approach in a global-local context, Martina Fuchs and Martina Fromhold-Eisebith; Index.
Reviews
'This volume contains a rich collection of research-based chapters, studying a variety of industries, countries and regions. It sheds new light on the dynamics of globalization and the remaining role of local influences. Readers of the book will find stimulating insights and original empirical results, based on new conceptual ideas about the dynamics of industrial transition .' Mike Geppert, University of Surrey, UK 'In an era of disruptive change and highly uneven adaptation, this rich and international collection of key voices provides an important contribution to our understanding of theory, policy and practice.' Andy Pike, Newcastle University, UK '... the industrial transition theme works as a template to draw together a strong collection of chapters, taking the reader to a diversity of changing industrial settings, and to consider a palette of potential research approaches.' Regional Studies
'This volume contains a rich collection of research-based chapters, studying a variety of industries, countries and regions. It sheds new light on the dynamics of globalization and the remaining role of local influences. Readers of the book will find stimulating insights and original empirical results, based on new conceptual ideas about the dynamics of industrial transition .' Mike Geppert, University of Surrey, UK 'In an era of disruptive change and highly uneven adaptation, this rich and international collection of key voices provides an important contribution to our understanding of theory, policy and practice.' Andy Pike, Newcastle University, UK '... the industrial transition theme works as a template to draw together a strong collection of chapters, taking the reader to a diversity of changing industrial settings, and to consider a palette of potential research approaches.' Regional Studies
"'This volume contains a rich collection of research-based chapters, studying a variety of industries, countries and regions. It sheds new light on the dynamics of globalization and the remaining role of local influences. Readers of the book will find stimulating insights and original empirical results, based on new conceptual ideas about the dynamics of ""industrial transition"".' Mike Geppert, University of Surrey, UK 'In an era of disruptive change and highly uneven adaptation, this rich and international collection of key voices provides an important contribution to our understanding of theory, policy and practice.' Andy Pike, Newcastle University, UK '... the industrial transition theme works as a template to draw together a strong collection of chapters, taking the reader to a diversity of changing industrial settings, and to consider a palette of potential research approaches.' Regional Studies"
Author Information
Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Full Professor (Chair) of Economic Geography, Department of Geography, RWTH Aachen University, Germany and Martina Fuchs, Full Professor of Geography, Department of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne, Germany Martina Fromhold-Eisebith , Martina Fuchs; Michael Taylor; Christoph K. Hahn; Christoph Scheuplein; Hanno Kempermann; Dorit Meyer; Kean Birch, Andrew Cumbers; Leo van Grunsven, Wouter Jacobs, Oedzge Atzema, Ton van Rietenbergen; Harald Bathelt, Andrew M. Munro; Sebastian Henn; Shiuh-Shen Chien, Jici Wang, Yu Ho, Mingbo Ma; Daniel Schiller; Steffen Wetzstein.
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