Circulation in production systems: the role of proximity
BURMEISTER
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
BURMEISTER
Résumé / Abstract
THIS PAPER ANALYSES THE ROLE OF CIRCULATION OF GOODS, INFORMATION AND PEOPLE IN THE CHANGING INDUSTRIAL AND SPATIAL ORGANISATION OF PRODUCTION. WE USE A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH INTERMS OF PROXIMITY BETWEEN ACTORS IN THE PRODUCTION SYSTEM. THIS FRAMEWORK EMPHASISES THE ORGANISATIONAL DIMENSION OF PROXIMITY INSTEAD OF MERE SPATIAL PROPINQUITY. IN THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE PAPER, WE WILL DEVELOP THE IDEA OF A CIRCULATORY DIMENSION OF PROXIMITY IN THE CO-ORDINATION BETWEEN ECONOMIC AGENTS. 'CIRCULATORY PROXIMITY' REFERS TO THE QUALITY OF CO-ORDINATION IN THE CIRCULATION OF GOODS, INFORMATION AND PEOPLE IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND GOES BEYOND THE STANDARD CONCEPTION OF ACCESSIBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS. THE EMPIRICAL PART OF THE PAPER WILL BE BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF TWO MANUFACTURING SECTORS : TEXTILE-CLOTHING AND FOOD. THE MAIN RESULTS OF OUR ANALYSIS CAN BE SUMMARISED AS FOLLOWS : JUST-IN-TIME PRODUCTION AND DELIVERY DO NOT APPEAR TO BE DEPENDENT UPON GEOGRAPHICAL ACCESSIBILITY, NO GENERALISATION OF JUST-IN-TIME AND MERCHANT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS HAS BEEN OBSERVED, CIRCULATION CAN BE THE MAJOR ELEMENT OF STRATEGY FOR INTRODUCING FLEXIBILITY AND CUSTOMISATION IN OTHERWISE TYPICALLY 'INDUSTRIAL' MODES OF PRODUCTION, THE MEANS TO ACHIEVE CIRCULATORY PROXIMITY ARE VARIOUS AND DIFFER ACCORDING TO SPECIFIC MODES OF PRODUCTION.
