Abstract
SCHOENBERGER E. (1987) Technological and organizational change in automobile production: spatial implications, Reg. Studies 21, 199–214. The origins and implications of recent technological and organizational changes in the automobile industry are examined. The nature of competition in the industry is linked to the adoption of flexible automation technologies in production. This, it is argued, may foster the spatial re-integration of production in contrast to earlier decentralizing trends, an effect that may be reinforced by the move to just-in-time principles of production organization. Implications for regional development are considered with cautions stressed concerning the meaning of spatial proximity and the firm's ability to construct agglomeration economies away from traditional industrial centres. SCHOENBERGER E. (1987) Changements technologiques et organisationnels dans la production automobile: implications spatiales, Reg. Studies 21, 199–214. Les origines et les implications des recents changem...
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