caa a22 4500 477076351 CHVBK 20180405111439.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01580541 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01580541 Echeverri-Carroll Elsie School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut Flexible production, electronic linkages, and large firms: evidence from the automobile industry [Elektronische Daten] [Elsie Echeverri-Carroll] At the beginning of the 1980s, a reverse trend in local economic development began, supporting old urban industrial areas in whichlarge firms represented the most competitive territorial and industrial systems. Using the case of the automobile industry as an example, this paper argues that contrary to what is anticipated by some researchers, the new flexible organization of the large firm will support neither an asymmetrical relationship of control between spatially decentralized firms nor a spatial reconcentration of activities toward industrialized countries. On the contrary, flexible production will support symmetrical networks that bind together spatially decentralized firms in a web of two-way partnership interactions. As space reflects changes in the organization of production, we anticipate greater coordination and interaction between spaces. This process would not be determined, butfacilitated by electronic linkages through technologies such as international EDI systems and groupware designed to increase cooperative work and joint decision-making. Springer-Verlag, 1996 The Annals of Regional Science Springer-Verlag 30/1(1996-03-01), 135-152 0570-1864 30:1<135 1996 30 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580541 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580541 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Echeverri-Carroll Elsie School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer-Verlag 30/1(1996-03-01), 135-152 0570-1864 30:1<135 1996 30 168 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer