Industrial Transition

New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation

Martina Fuchs, Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317117001
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

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?

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Changing Global-Local Dynamics of Economic Development? Coining the New Conceptual Framework of ‘Industrial Transition’
• 2 Industry, Enterprise, Economic Growth and Recession: Forgotten Issues in Economic Geography
• 3 The Transition of the Automotive Industry as a Catalyst for Cross-Border Networking? The Case of the Greater Region SaarLorLux
• 4 Industrial Restructuring by Financial Investors? Buy-and-Build Strategies in the German Automotive Supplier Industry from 2000 to 2010
• 5 Flexible Specialization – Thirty Years after the ‘Second Industrial Divide’: Lessons from the German Mechanical Engineering Industry in the Crisis 2008 to 2010
• 6 Organisation and Representation of Temporary Workers
• 7 Industry Transition and Knowledge-Based Sectors: Changing Economic Governance and Institutional Arrangements in the Scottish Life Sciences
• 8 Strategic Coupling between Multinational Subsidiaries and KIBS as a Mode of Regional Industrial Transition
• 9 Regional Growth Dynamics: Intra-Firm Adjustment vs. Organizational Ecology
• 10 Transnational Entrepreneurs and the Global Shift of Production: The Example of Diamond Manufacturing
• 11 China as a Western Musical Instrument Producer: Case Study of the Piano Industry
• 12 Spatial and Organisational Transition of an East Asian High-Growth Region: The Electronics Industry in the Greater Pearl River Delta
• 13 Economic Competitiveness, ‘Glurbanisation’ and ‘Soft’ Spatial Interventions: Insights from Four Australasian Cities
• 14 Conclusion: Towards a Refined Conceptualization of the Industrial Transition Approach in a Global-Local Context
• Index