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What is Flexible Specialization

Chapter 109
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
An alternative model of production based on the spread of production between specialized producers that together are able to rapidly respond to changing market conditions and to adapt to more exigent and volatile consumer demands.
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Local Networks in Global Markets
Iva Miranda Pires (Faculdade Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch109
Abstract
Competitiveness might be defined as the success with which firms and regions compete with one another over market shares and resources. Clusters are innovative, firm, organizational forms (networks of firms, services and institutions linked in a production value chain) in way to improve regional competitiveness in flexible, highly demanding and unpredictable markets. Since the early eighties, the “region” was rediscovered and a burgeoning literature from Californian, Italian and French scholars in sociology, economics and geography offered a wide range of perspectives on the relevance of the territory and the region to economic and social life.
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Chapter 26
Temporality and Knowledge Work
(Also known as flexible production, or flexibly organized economies). It is a form of economic organization characterized by decentralized and fluid organizational structures, designed to adapt rapidly to variations in consumer demands. Flexible specialization is viewed as a shift away from the mass production and relatively rigid organizational hierarchies of the Fordist era.
Published in Chapter: Temporality and Knowledge Work; From: Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations
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