TY - BOOK ID - 51180438 TI - Pathways to industrialization and regional development AU - Scott, Allen J. AU - Storper, Michael. AU - Scott, Allen John. PY - 1992 SN - 041508752X 9786610221332 1134882742 128022133X 0203995546 1134882734 9781134882731 9781134882748 9781280221330 9780203995549 PB - Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Industrialization KW - Regional planning KW - Industrial policy KW - Geografie KW - Congresses. KW - Economische geografie KW - Locatie Theorie. KW - districts KW - flexible KW - specialization KW - local KW - systems KW - mass KW - production KW - italian KW - technological KW - paradigm UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:51180438 AB - The paradigm of mass production has given way to radically new forms of organizing industrial production based primarily on the need to foster continuous redesign of products and processes in the face of intensified competition. This change, which is designed to engender continuous adaptive learning in production systems, requires considerable organizational flexibility. The mass production systems constructed in the early post-war period foundered in the face of new forms of competition which put a premium on learning and flexibility. ER -