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Introduction Introduction
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Manufacturing Disintegration: Permanent Volatility, The Crisis of Fordist/Chandlerian Organization, Industrial Districts and Lean Production Manufacturing Disintegration: Permanent Volatility, The Crisis of Fordist/Chandlerian Organization, Industrial Districts and Lean Production
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Fordist/Chandlerian vs. disintegrated manufacturing Fordist/Chandlerian vs. disintegrated manufacturing
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Varieties of disintegrated production Varieties of disintegrated production
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The Globalization of Disintegrated Production: Offshoring, Multinationals, and Multiple Logics in Transnational Supply Chains The Globalization of Disintegrated Production: Offshoring, Multinationals, and Multiple Logics in Transnational Supply Chains
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Separation of design and manufacture, cost‐driven disintegration, and offshoring: the limits of modularity Separation of design and manufacture, cost‐driven disintegration, and offshoring: the limits of modularity
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Offshoring, collaboration, and the destabilization of spatial hierarchy Offshoring, collaboration, and the destabilization of spatial hierarchy
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Opening new markets and following the customer: multiple logics, multiple regions, multiple plants, multiple hierarchies Opening new markets and following the customer: multiple logics, multiple regions, multiple plants, multiple hierarchies
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Coping with Disintegrated Production on a Global Scale: Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Firms and High‐Wage Regions Coping with Disintegrated Production on a Global Scale: Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Firms and High‐Wage Regions
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Interpenetration of industrial district/local production system and lean production/collaborative supply chain models Interpenetration of industrial district/local production system and lean production/collaborative supply chain models
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Cooperative globalization of SMEs Cooperative globalization of SMEs
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Regional policy for the globalization of disintegrated production Regional policy for the globalization of disintegrated production
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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18 Inter‐Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and Its Globalization
Get accessGary Herrigel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, United States. He received his Ph.D. from the Political Science Department and the Program in Science Technology and Society, MIT. His research interests include comparative business history, comparative industrial analysis, political economy, economic sociology, and economic geography. Herrigel has published Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power (Cambridge, 1996) and co‐edited Americanizaiton and its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan (Oxford, 2000) with Jonathan Zeitlin, in addition to many scholarly articles dealing with business and industrial governance matters both historical and contemporary.
Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Deptartment of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.
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Published:02 May 2010
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Abstract
This article surveys the state of international scholarly debate on inter-firm relations in global manufacturing. It focuses on the evolving strategies of customers and suppliers within the value chains of core manufacturing industries, such as motor vehicles and complex mechanical engineering products. The analysis is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the historical emergence of clustered, flexible, and/or vertically disintegrated production since the 1980s. The second part addresses the globalization of disintegrated production. The third part analyses interactions between production in developed and developing regions, together with the evolution of small- and medium-sized firms strategies in high-wage regions in response to the resulting challenges and opportunities. The concluding section considers the implications of these developments for power and inequality in global supply chains.
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