TY - CHAP
T1 - Competition, internationalisation and the regions
T2 - the example of the information technology production industries in Europe
AU - Gillespie, Andrew
AU - Howells, Jeremy
AU - Williams, Howard
AU - Thwaites, Alfred
PY - 2018/3/22
Y1 - 2018/3/22
N2 - In this chapter, the authors provide a bridge between the location specific and the international restructuring types of approach to studying the geography of high technology industry. They examine some of the dominant types of corporate response to competitive pressure in one sectoral and geographical sub-set of high technology industry that involved in the production of information technology in Europe and then to consider some of the regional development implications of these dominant forms of restructuring process. The internationalisation of markets for Information Technology (IT) products has preceded the internationalisation of production per se, in accordance with Palloix, who predicted a sequence in which the internationalisation of commodity capital takes place earlier than that for either money capital or productive capital. The European IT industries already display marked geographical concentration, with the major metropolitan regions of France, the Low Countries, Germany, Northern Italy and the UK dominating the geography of IT production in Europe.
AB - In this chapter, the authors provide a bridge between the location specific and the international restructuring types of approach to studying the geography of high technology industry. They examine some of the dominant types of corporate response to competitive pressure in one sectoral and geographical sub-set of high technology industry that involved in the production of information technology in Europe and then to consider some of the regional development implications of these dominant forms of restructuring process. The internationalisation of markets for Information Technology (IT) products has preceded the internationalisation of production per se, in accordance with Palloix, who predicted a sequence in which the internationalisation of commodity capital takes place earlier than that for either money capital or productive capital. The European IT industries already display marked geographical concentration, with the major metropolitan regions of France, the Low Countries, Germany, Northern Italy and the UK dominating the geography of IT production in Europe.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84981639711&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781351269001-5
DO - 10.4324/9781351269001-5
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
AN - SCOPUS:84981639711
SN - 9781138576742
SN - 9781138576827
T3 - Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Business of Technology
SP - 113
EP - 142
BT - The Development of High Technology Industries
A2 - Breheny, Michael J.
A2 - Mcquaid, Ronald
PB - Routledge
ER -