The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography the Collective Order of Flexible Production Agglomerations: Lessons for Local Economic Development Policy and Strategic Choice
探讨了灵活生产集聚体的内在逻辑，指出其成功依赖于制度与集体秩序框架，并描述了五个社会干预领域，以洛杉矶电动汽车产业为例说明。
AbstractA significant portion of the modern world economy is constituted as a patchwork of dense industrial agglomerations. The currently shifting structure of production from Fordist to flexible accumulation has intensified this state of affairs. In this paper, I describe changes in the thrust and content of regional policy resulting from these developments. I briefly delineate the inner logic of flexible production agglomerations, and I argue that they are likely to be most successful when they secure for themselves appropriate frameworks of institutional and collective order. Generic tasks for such frameworks are described in terms of five main arenas of social intervention: (1) industrial technology, (2) labor training, (3) business service associations, (4) innovation networks and cooperative manufacturing structures, and (5) local government and land use control. The case of recent public efforts to establish an electric car industry in Los Angeles is discussed as an illustration of the argument. Th...