Industrial Change in Advanced Economies

ISBN-13: 9780815374664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 332 str.

F. E. Ian Hamilton

Opis

Originally published in 1987 and taking a review of the theories and processes of industrial relocation as its starting point, this book examines the nature of organisational and technologcal changes in detail and concludes with a series of industry case studies drawn from areas throughout the world.

Spis treści

1. The Rising Importance of Small and Medium-sized Firms: Towards a New Industrial System?  2. The Need for a New Evolutionary Theory of Time and Space: Contemporary Czechoslovak Industrial Change 3. People - Production- International Division of Labour 4. Locational Issues in World Aluminium; Past, Present and Future 5. Spatial and Structural Changes in West European Papermaking 6. Spatial Perspectives on the Dynamics of the World Pain Industry 7. Two Multinationals in Competition 8. Telecommunications and the Global Firm 9. Spatial and Structural Consequences of Industrial Change: The American Gulf Coast Petrocrescent  10. Orgniasational and Regional Changes in Industrial Systems: Integration of the Oil Industry into an Advanced Economy11. Spatial Impacts of Organisational Change in Hungarian Industrial Enterprises 12. Controlling The Territorial Production Complex Creation Process in the Soviet Union 13. The Regional Division of Labour: Machinery Manufacturing, Microeletronics and R and D in Japan 14. Technological Transfer to the EEC Periphery: The Case of Greece 15. Policy and High Technology Complexes: Ottawa's 'Silicon Valley North' 16. Business Services for Manufacturers: Demand Behaviour by Enterprises in Lower Saxony 17. Planning for Business Development in the Urban Transition Zone

O autorze

F. E. Ian Hamilton