Industrial Change in Advanced Economies

by F. E. Ian Hamilton (Editor)

Overview

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. The book examines the salient features and implications of the reorganisation of industries and industrial enterprises, reflecting their development or harnessing of technological changes - not least ot increase their bargaining power with, control over, or use of labour. Various chapters discuss policy-making and the role of the State posed by the speed, scale and character of the changes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815374541
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/27/2018
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Business of Technology , #17
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

F. E. Ian Hamilton

Table of Contents

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