IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/17125_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Resilience, adaptation and survival in industry sectors: remaking and remodelling of the automotive sector

In: Creating Resilient Economies

Author

Listed:
  • Gill Bentley
  • David Bailey
  • Daniel Braithwaite

Abstract

The chapter explores the notion of sectoral resilience in context of the discussion about the resilience of regions. The case study of the automotive industry sector shows that the UK auto industry has the capacity to recover after economic shocks and firms undertake a range of avoidance and adaptive actions in remaking and remodelling themselves in order to survive. It notes, however, that sectoral resilience is a contestable concept; being seen as the outcome of the actions of individual firms in the sector is not sectoral resilience per se. It suggests that sectoral resilience needs to be conceptualized rather in terms of the complexities in the interactions in the development of multi-scalar patterns of relational geographies of production in industrial sectors and that it is this that shapes regional resilience. It requires a policy response to match this complexity: a holistic approach to regional and industrial policy.

Suggested Citation

  • Gill Bentley & David Bailey & Daniel Braithwaite, 2017. "Resilience, adaptation and survival in industry sectors: remaking and remodelling of the automotive sector," Chapters, in: Nick Williams & Tim Vorley (ed.), Creating Resilient Economies, chapter 5, pages 55-69, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:17125_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781785367632.00011.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:17125_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.