The Role Of Proximity In Automotive Technology Supply Chain
This essay is divided into the following sections: in section 1.1, we brieflyargue that the auto industry is a compelling case for studying regional economicdevelopment and economic geography precisely because it generates large numbersof high-quality jobs, and forges tight linkages to production and jobs in upstreamand downstream sectors. In section 2, we present the issues of production and placemore systematically. Having established the importance of the issue of productionand place in this introduction, we move on to frame the debate by defining twotypes of space over which public and private authorities have jurisdiction, andacross which production and its attendant jobs are (re)located. We further definefour types of proximity: geographic, organizational, cultural, and electronic, thatplausibly contribute to the success of economic development. These kinds ofproximity offer varied incentives and disincentives for industrial agglomeration,and therefore inspire competition between nations, states and regions for thelocation of production and jobs. Also in section 2, we introduce two issues thathave remained largely unexplored in the literature on regional economicdevelopment and economic geography: the strategic interaction between and amongfirms and public authorities, and the question of production technologydevelopment and sourcing.
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2002-09-11
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Authors: | Fine, Charles ; Gilboy, George ; Oye, Kenneth ; Parker, Geoffrey |
Subject: | automotive technology supplier |
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