ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00966.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:This paper explores the impact of new technology adoption upon the market performance of small industrial firms. Survey data from a six‐sector sample of Western New York manufacturers are presented. The results suggest a positive relationship between new technology adoption and growth of exports, value‐added, and total sales. A central finding of the study is that flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) confer different types of technical and commercial advantages across sectors. Two broad groups of process innovators are identified: (1) those that adopt new technology primarily to cut unit costs; and (2) those that aspire toward greater production flexibility. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the regional development implications that flow from the empirical resu

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00967.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:This paper establishes the concept of production system as an analytical framework to embrace recent industrial changes. Five dimensions of production system changes are posited. A case study of the Korean consumer electronics sector shows that the companies have experienced diverse patterns of changes, but these changes are generally related to plant location, ownership, export orientation, and company size.

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00968.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:This paper presents results of a hierarchical, fixed‐question survey that sought responses about flexible machining cells, flexible labor cells, and concurrent changes in plant operations among nonelectrical machinery manufacturers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. General results indicate that the majority of firms in the American Midwest do not possess flexible manufacturing capability. Of those that do possess this capability, most adopted flexible labor cells prior to adopting flexible machining cells. These cells are small, employing relatively few workers and producing a limited line of products. While the adoption process has been plagued with training, scheduling, and integration problems, most plant managers are pleased with the performance of their flexible manufacturing cells. Management has been reluctant to break out of traditional relationships with suppliers, to trim levels of management and to explore strategic alliances with competitors. Survey results are disaggregated by year, size, positon‐in‐organization, and by union affili

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00969.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:This paper focuses on restructuring in eleven first‐tier suppliers in the South Wales motor components sector and examines the influence of production politics, including plant‐local labor market relations, on the implementation of flexible manufacaturing during the 1980s. Although industrial geographers have recognized the role of recruitment and training in the restructuring of the spatial division of labor they have tended to focus primarily on the role of new firms operating at “green field” sites and view this process as functional to the needs of capital. However, the argument of this paper will be that while new forms of work organization are influenced by the technical and commercial possibilities of new technology and markets, the form of work organization cannot simply be “read off” from the macro‐economic level, but will be partially determined by existing spatiallyuneven social relations

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00970.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:A case study of the Hong Kong watch industry demonstrates the adaptive flexibility of labor‐intensive industrial clusters. The study describes the evolution of industry in Hong Kong, and highlights the unique attributes of the country's economic history which have influenced the structure of production systems in the country. Focusing on the role of global competition, the case study identifies the constraints posed by a labor‐intensive flexible production system in the face of continuous technological change in the indus

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00971.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTInstitutions matter to economic development—particularly to the process of economic transformation. New technologies and new ways of organizing economic activity do not emerge in a vacuum, but bear the imprint of institutional arrangements. Economic transformation thus entails institutional adaptation as well as technological change—the emergence of new ways of organizing production or production systems and new sets of social and economic relationships which provide the institutional context for economic growth and development. Just as importantly, new institutional arrangements do not emergetabula rasa, but reflect the legacy of old social and institutional forms. Given particular social and institutional legacies, different societies adapt differently to economic transformation. This article employs a theoretically‐informed comparative examination of postwar Japanese capitalism to explore the critical role played by institutions in the process of economic transform

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00972.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Book Review in This Article:POSTMODERN CONTENTIONS: EPOCHS, POLITICS, SPACE. Edited by John Paul Jones III, Wolfgang Natter, and Theodore Schatzki.RESTRUCTURING HEGEMONY IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: THE RISE OF TRANSNATIONAL NEW‐LIBERALISM IN THE 1980s. Edited by Henk Overbeek.THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS IN SMALL ISLAND STATES. Edited by Douglas G. Lockhart, David Drakakis‐Smith, and John Schembri.DEFENSE SPENDING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. Edited by James E. Payne and Anandi Sahu.URBAN FINANCE UNDER SIEGE. Edited by Thomas R. Swartz and Frank J. Bonello.STATE&RESERVATION: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY. Edited by George Pierre Castile and Robert L.

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00973.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00974.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY