Download or read book Regional Development and Contemporary Industrial Response written by Huib Ernste and published by John Wiley & Son Limited. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern industrial economies, flexible specialization - the ability of manufacturing and increasingly service enterprises to respond and to reflect changing market requirements and technological changes - is widely seen as a panacea for survival and growth, both for individual companies and entire sectors. The concept is widely debated and enthusiatically endorsed yet this is the first book to examine critically how flexible specialization operates, and how it relates to regional econonmic development is a post-Fordist world.