IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envira/v22y1990i3p385-398.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Changing Spatial Structure of Manufacturing Plant in Great Britain, 1976 to 1987

Author

Listed:
  • J Tomkins
  • J Twomey

Abstract

This paper is concerned with changes in the stock of manufacturing plant at national, regional, and county levels, over the period 1976–1987. Using information provided by the annual Census of Production, the focus of the analysis is size-specific spatial change in manufacturing unit numbers, where size is defined in terms of employment bands. For Great Britain as a whole, a decline of over 20% in total unit numbers is recorded, with higher rates of decline occurring in the larger units. If the period 1976–1987 is divided into four subperiods, some growth is detected in the last subperiod, particularly in the smaller size bands. Analysis at the regional level indicates a similar pattern, and although ‘northern’ regions appear to be more adversely affected in general than ‘southern’ regions it is concluded that the relatively higher rates of decline amongst larger manufacturing units is a spatially invariant characteristic. Within the regional analysis the influence of size structure upon regional manfacturing change is also examined. Finally, examination of changes occurring at the county level shows a greater disparity of performance, and also shows that regional outcomes can be dominated by the growth or decline of manufacturing in particular counties.

Suggested Citation

  • J Tomkins & J Twomey, 1990. "The Changing Spatial Structure of Manufacturing Plant in Great Britain, 1976 to 1987," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 22(3), pages 385-398, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:22:y:1990:i:3:p:385-398
    DOI: 10.1068/a220385
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a220385
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1068/a220385?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jim Taylor & Jim Twomey, 1988. "The Movement of Manufacturing Industry in Great Britain: An Inter-County Analysis, 1972-1981," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 25(3), pages 228-242, June.
    2. Twomey, Jim & Taylor, Jim, 1985. "Regional Policy and the Interregional Movement of Manufacturing Industry in Great Britain," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 32(3), pages 257-277, November.
    3. Martin, R L, 1982. "Job Loss and the Regional Incidence of Redundancies in the Current Recession," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 6(4), pages 375-395, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Barry Moore & Peter Tyler & Dan Elliott, 1991. "The Influence of Regional Development Incentives and Infrastructure on the Location of Small and Medium Sized Companies in Europe," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 28(6), pages 1001-1026, December.
    2. R S Bivand, 1986. "The Evaluation of Norwegian Regional Policy: Parameter Variation in Regional Shift Models," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 4(1), pages 71-90, March.
    3. A R Townsend, 1986. "The Location of Employment Growth after 1978: The Surprising Significance of Dispersed Centres," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 18(4), pages 529-545, April.
    4. J Twomey, 1986. "Establishment Migration: An Analytical Framework," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 18(7), pages 967-979, July.
    5. H.D. Watts, 1991. "Plant Closures in Urban Areas: Towards a Local Policy Response," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 28(5), pages 803-817, October.
    6. Kevin Denny & Ridge, M, 1992. "The implications of a switch to locally varying business rates," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, vol. 13(1), pages 22-37, February.
    7. R T Harrison, 1986. "The Incidence and Nature of Redundancy in the Northern Ireland Shipbuilding Industry 1972 – 1983," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 18(9), pages 1225-1236, September.
    8. John Tomaney & Andy Pike & James Cornford, 1999. "Plant Closure and the Local Economy: The Case of Swan Hunter on Tyneside," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(5), pages 401-411.
    9. Jim Taylor, 1993. "An Analysis of the Factors Determining the Geographical Distribution of Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the UK, 1984-91," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 30(7), pages 1209-1224, August.
    10. Dohse, Dirk & Krieger-Boden, Christiane & Soltwedel, Rüdiger, 1996. "Schleswig-Holstein: Standortpolitik in schwieriger Zeit," Kiel Discussion Papers 272, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    11. Jim Taylor & Jim Twomey, 1988. "The Movement of Manufacturing Industry in Great Britain: An Inter-County Analysis, 1972-1981," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 25(3), pages 228-242, June.
    12. I R Gordon, 1985. "Distributed Lags in Local Responses to Fluctuations in Unemployment," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 17(6), pages 845-856, June.
    13. Munday, Max & Pickernell, David & Roberts, Annette, 1999. "The Effectiveness of Regional Grant Aid: A Welsh Perspective," ERSA conference papers ersa99pa321, European Regional Science Association.
    14. Colin Wren, 1993. "Job Duration and the Macro-evaluation of Employment Policy: The Example of UK Regional Policy," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 30(3), pages 573-580, April.
    15. A G Hoare, 1993. "Domestic Regions, Overseas Nations, and Their Interactions through Trade: The Case of the United Kingdom," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 25(5), pages 701-722, May.
    16. ., 2014. "Urban policies," Chapters, in: Urban Economics and Urban Policy, chapter 8, pages 185-218, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    17. Bernard Fingleton, 1992. "The Location of Employment in High-technology Manufacturing in Great Britain," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 29(8), pages 1265-1276, December.
    18. K Bassett, 1984. "Corporate Structure and Corporate Change in a Local Economy: The Case of Bristol," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 16(7), pages 879-900, July.
    19. James Foreman-Peck & Tom Nicholls, 2015. "Inter-regional mobility of entrepreneurial SMEs," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 54(1), pages 57-87, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:22:y:1990:i:3:p:385-398. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.