Industrial Transition: New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation

260 Pages·2012·1.571 MB·English

by  Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs (eds.)

Industrial Transition
New Global-Local Patterns of Production,
Work, and Innovation
Edited by
Martina Fromhold-Eisebith and Martina Fuchs
IndustrIal transItIon
The Dynamics of Economic Space
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Industrial transition
new Global-local Patterns of Production,
Work, and Innovation
Edited by
MartIna FroMhold-EIsEBIth
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
and
MartIna FuChs
University of Cologne, Germany
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Industrial transition: new Global-local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation.
– (the dynamics of Economic space)
1. Industrial organization. 2. International division of labor. 3. Economic geography.
4. space in economics. I. series II. Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina. III. Fuchs, Martina.
338.6–dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina.
Industrial transition: new Global-local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation/
by Martina Fromhold-Eisebith and Martina Fuchs.
p. cm. – (the dynamics of Economic space)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Industrial organization – Case studies. 2. technological innovations – Case studies.
I. Fuchs, Martina. II. title.
hd31.F766 2012
338.6–dc23 2012003878
IsBn 9781409431213 (hbk)
IsBn 9781409431220 (ebk)
IV
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface xiii
1 Changing Global-Local Dynamics of Economic Development?
Coining the New Conceptual Framework of ‘Industrial Transition’ 1
Martina Fromhold-Eisebith and Martina Fuchs
2 Industry, Enterprise, Economic Growth and Recession:
Forgotten Issues in Economic Geography 17
Michael Taylor
3 The Transition of the Automotive Industry as a Catalyst for
Cross-Border Networking?
The Case of the Greater Region SaarLorLux 29
Christoph K. Hahn
4 Industrial Restructuring by Financial Investors? Buy-and-Build
Strategies in the German Automotive Supplier Industry from
2000 to 2010 49
Christoph Scheuplein
5 Flexible Specialization – Thirty Years after the ‘Second Industrial
Divide’: Lessons from the German Mechanical Engineering Industry
in the Crisis 2008 to 2010 65
Martina Fuchs and Hanno Kempermann
6 Organisation and Representation of Temporary Workers 81
Dorit Meyer
7 Industry Transition and Knowledge-Based Sectors: Changing
Economic Governance and Institutional Arrangements in the
Scottish Life Sciences 99
Kean Birch and Andrew Cumbers
vi Industrial Transition
8 Strategic Coupling between Multinational Subsidiaries and
KIBS as a Mode of Regional Industrial Transition 117
Leo van Grunsven, Wouter Jacobs, Oedzge Atzema,
Ton van Rietbergen
9 Regional Growth Dynamics: Intra-Firm Adjustment vs.
Organizational Ecology 135
Harald Bathelt and Andrew M. Munro
10 Transnational Entrepreneurs and the Global Shift of Production:
The Example of Diamond Manufacturing 155
Sebastian Henn
11 China as a Western Musical Instrument Producer: Case Study of
the Piano Industry 173
Shiuh-Shen Chien, Jici Wang, Yu Ho, Mingbo Ma
12 Spatial and Organisational Transition of an East Asian
High-Growth Region: The Electronics Industry in the Greater
Pearl River Delta 189
Daniel Schiller
13 Economic Competitiveness, ‘Glurbanisation’ and ‘Soft’ Spatial
Interventions: Insights from Four Australasian Cities 213
Steffen Wetzstein
14 Conclusion: Towards a Refined Conceptualization of the
Industrial Transition Approach in a Global-Local Context 233
Martina Fuchs and Martina Fromhold-Eisebith
Index 243
List of Figures
3.1 Locations of global top ten automotive suppliers within the Greater
Region SaarLorLux 41
7.1 The Scottish life sciences 104
8.1 Conceptual relations between MNEs and KIBS in the
host environment 129
9.1 Regional ecologies of technological change and growth 141
10.1 Number of Belgian diamond workers versus exports of polished
diamond from India in US-Dollars (1966–2006) 168
11.1 China’s piano production in the world since the 1980s 174
12.1 Modes of cross-border production organisation in HK and
the PRD 200
13.1 Australasian case study sites 216
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List of Tables
3.1 Organizational characteristics of the surveyed enterprises and
cooperation within the Greater Region SaarLorLux 35
4.1 Ranking of portfolio companies of the automotive supplier industry
in the supply pyramid in Germany in the years 2000 to 2010 57
9.1 Local supplier linkages of firms in Canada’s Technology
Triangle, 2007–2009 146
9.2 Local and international sales of firms in Canada’s Technology
Triangle, 2007–2009 146
11.1 Piano production by selected countries in selected years
(unit: thousand pianos) 177
11.2 Foreign-background pianos in China by capital source and by
location province 180
11.3 Piano production and sales in China from 2006 to 2010
(unit: thousand) 183
12.1 General characteristics of the surveyed firms in HK and the PRD 195
12.2 Sales profiles of electronics firms in HK and the PRD according
to age of the firm 197
12.3 Share of industrial gross value added according to ownership 200
12.4 Spatial sales patterns of firms in the PRD according to ownership 202
12.5 HK connections of electronics firms in the PRD according to age
of the firm 203
12.6 Main location of business activities by electronics firms in HK
and the PRD 204
12.7 Governance of relation to the main supplier in the PRD by firms
in HK and the PRD 206