TY - JOUR
T1 - Plant Closure and Institutional Modernisation
T2 - Siemens microelectronics in the North East
AU - Charles, David
AU - Benneworth, Paul
PY - 1999/11
Y1 - 1999/11
N2 - The Siemens plant in North Tyneside, England gave the pretext for a range of local agencies to act together, to modernise part of the regional institutional infrastructure. This improvement meant that when the investment closed, and technological, organisational and skill modernisation by the firm in the region ceased, the region continued to experience the benefits from the temporary presence of the investment. This paper uses the case of Siemens to problematise the conventional understanding of the ephemerality of branch-plant investments to understand how they can usefully contribute to the modernisation of peripheral industrial regions within the UK.
AB - The Siemens plant in North Tyneside, England gave the pretext for a range of local agencies to act together, to modernise part of the regional institutional infrastructure. This improvement meant that when the investment closed, and technological, organisational and skill modernisation by the firm in the region ceased, the region continued to experience the benefits from the temporary presence of the investment. This paper uses the case of Siemens to problematise the conventional understanding of the ephemerality of branch-plant investments to understand how they can usefully contribute to the modernisation of peripheral industrial regions within the UK.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84992786298
U2 - 10.1080/02690949908726492
DO - 10.1080/02690949908726492
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84992786298
SN - 0269-0942
VL - 14
SP - 200
EP - 213
JO - Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
JF - Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
IS - 3
ER -
