1st Edition

Industrial Change in Advanced Economies

Edited By F. E. Ian Hamilton Copyright 1987
    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    1. The Rising Importance of Small and Medium-sized Firms: Towards a New Industrial System? Genevieve Duché and Suzanne Savey 2. The Need for a New Evolutionary Theory of Time and Space: Contemporary Czechoslovak Industrial Change Koloman Invanicka 3. People - Production- International Division of Labour Kajsa Ellegård and Claes Alvstam 4. Locational Issues in World Aluminium; Past, Present and Future Balint Blakay 5. Spatial and Structural Changes in West European Papermaking Peter Lewis 6. Spatial Perspectives on the Dynamics of the World Pain Industry Peter Herdson 7. Two Multinationals in Competition Risto Laulajainen 8. Telecommunications and the Global Firm Henri Bakis 9. Spatial and Structural Consequences of Industrial Change: The American Gulf Coast Petrocrescent Bernard Weinstein and Harold T. Cross 10. Orgniasational and Regional Changes in Industrial Systems: Integration of the Oil Industry into an Advanced Economy Eirik Vatne 11. Spatial Impacts of Organisational Change in Hungarian Industrial Enterprises Györgyi Barta 12. Controlling The Territorial Production Complex Creation Process in the Soviet Union Mark Bandman 13. The Regional Division of Labour: Machinery Manufacturing, Microeletronics and R and D in Japan Kiyoji Murata and Atsuhiko Takeuchi 14. Technological Transfer to the EEC Periphery: The Case of Greece Evangelia Dokopoulou 15. Policy and High Technology Complexes: Ottawa's 'Silicon Valley North' Guy P. F. Steed 16. Business Services for Manufacturers: Demand Behaviour by Enterprises in Lower Saxony Eike Schamp 17. Planning for Business Development in the Urban Transition Zone David Wadley

    Biography

    F. E. Ian Hamilton