Industrial Transition : New Global-local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation (Hardcover)

Chapter 1 Changing Global-Local Dynamics of Economic Development? Coining the New Conceptual Framework of ‘Industrial Transition’, Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs; Chapter 2 Industry, Enterprise, Economic Growth and Recession: Forgotten Issues in Economic Geography, Michael Taylor; Chapter 3 The Transition of the Automotive Industry as a Catalyst for Cross-Border Networking? The Case of the Greater Region SaarLorLux, Christoph K. Hahn; Chapter 4 Industrial Restructuring by Financial Investors? Buy-and-Build Strategies in the German Automotive Supplier Industry from 2000 to 2010, Christoph Scheuplein; Chapter 5 Flexible Specialization ? Thirty Years after the ‘Second Industrial Divide’: Lessons from the German Mechanical Engineering Industry in the Crisis 2008 to 2010, Martina Fuchs, Hanno Kempermann; Chapter 6 Organisation and Representation of Temporary Workers, Dorit Meyer; Chapter 7 Industry Transition and Knowledge-Based Sectors: Changing Economic Governance and Institutional Arrangements in the Scottish Life Sciences, Kean Birch, Andrew Cumbers; Chapter 8 Strategic Coupling between Multinational Subsidiaries and KIBS as a Mode of Regional Industrial Transition, Leo van Grunsven, Wouter Jacobs, Oedzge Atzema, Ton van Rietbergen; Chapter 9 Regional Growth Dynamics: Intra-Firm Adjustment vs. Organizational Ecology, Harald Bathelt, Andrew M. Munro; Chapter 10 Transnational Entrepreneurs and the Global Shift of Production: The Example of Diamond Manufacturing, Sebastian Henn; Chapter 11 China as a Western Musical Instrument Producer: Case Study of the Piano Industry, Shiuh-Shen Chien, Jici Wang, Yu Ho, Mingbo Ma; Chapter 12 Spatial and Organisational Transition of an East Asian High-Growth Region: The Electronics Industry in the Greater Pearl River Delta, Daniel Schiller; Chapter 13 Economic Competitiveness, ‘Glurbanisation’ and ‘Soft’ Spatial Interventions: Insights from Four Australasian Cities, Steffen Wetzstein; Chapter 14 Conclusion: Towards a Refined Conceptualization of the Industrial Transition Approach in a Global-Local Context, Martina Fuchs, Martina Fromhold-Eisebith;