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Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of Production in Europe

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  • A Amin

    (Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England)

  • A Malmberg

    (Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, PO Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden)

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In this paper the spatial implications for Europe of major structural and institutional changes affecting the production system are examined. The concern is to establish whether these changes are enabling a greater localisation or globalisation of intrafirm and interfirm relations and, associated with this, greater scope for local economic development. The paper begins with a critical survey of an influential paradigm in which it is sustained that the transfer from Fordism to post-Fordism implies a return to regional economies. It is then argued that contemporary restructuring in Europe is very much a matter of a global extension of old and new forms of industrial organisation—a process which does not augur well for self-sustaining development at the local level. This thesis is further sustained and elaborated through a consideration, in the second half of the paper, of the implications for less-favoured regions related to the transition to market forms of spatial governance at the level of the nation-state, and, at the level of the European Community, the policy reforms connected to the completion of the Single European Market.

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  • A Amin & A Malmberg, 1992. "Competing Structural and Institutional Influences on the Geography of Production in Europe," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 24(3), pages 401-416, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:24:y:1992:i:3:p:401-416
    DOI: 10.1068/a240401
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