Producer Services and Systems of Flexible Production
| Autor: | William J. Coffey, Antoine Sylvain Bailly |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
Service (business)
Structure (mathematical logic) Engineering Operations research Economie des services business.industry 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Etudes urbaines 021107 urban & regional planning Production flexible 02 engineering and technology Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Urban Studies Ville Criticism Production (economics) business Géographie 050703 geography Industrial organization ddc:910 |
| Zdroj: | Urban Studies, Vol. 29, No 6 (1992) pp. 857-868 |
| ISSN: | 1360-063X 0042-0980 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00420989220080841 |
| Popis: | During the decade of the 1980s, regional science began to devote more and more attention to the influence of two phenomena upon the structure and functioning of the space-economy: (1) service activities, in general, and producer services, in particular, and (2) flexible production systems. This paper explores the extent to which these two major preoccupations of contemporary regional science can be integrated, and attempts to contribute to the understanding of the growth and location of producer services by examining the manner in which an analytical framework based upon flexible production may be applied to the latter. The exploration begins with a summary and criticism of the flexible production approach. This is followed by a discussion of the growth of producer services and of the trends towards the increasing externalisation of these activities. Next, the appropriateness of employing a flexible production framework in the case of producer services is examined. The significance of the concept of flexible production for understanding the location of producer services is then explored. Finally, the paper examines the effects upon the labour force of flexibility in the production and use of producer services. |
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