Research Agenda for Manufacturing Industries in the Global Economy

Edited by John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, Department of Strategy and International Business, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK, Chloe Billing, City-Region Economic Development Institute, University of Birmingham, UK, William Graves, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US and Godfrey Yeung, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

• Contents:Dedication: Michael J. Taylor xvJohn R. BrysonPreface xix1 Reframing manufacturing research: place,production, risk and theory 1John R. Bryson, Chloe Billing, William Graves andGodfrey Yeung2 Theoretical and methodological approaches tounderstanding emerging industries 33Chloe Billing and John R. Bryson3 Transforming manufacturing? An additivemanufacturing research agenda 49Jennifer Johns4 Megatrends and new research agendas in theautomotive industry 67Godfrey Yeung5 Getting the right skills in place for manufacturing:challenges and opportunities 91Anne Green and Abigail Taylor6 Addressing the evolution of clustering strategies inmanufacturing: a policy research agenda 113William Graves and Harrison S. Campbell, Jr7 Going global in one location: exploring SMEmanufacturer internationalization motives at a trade fair 135Ronald V. Kalafsky and Douglas R. Gress8 The transformation of Asian electronicsproduction networks: evidence from theparticipation of Vietnam 157David Yuen Tung Chan and Chun Yang9 How to increase the usefulness and relevance ofoperations and supply chain management research? 177Donato Masi and Jan Godsell10 Corporate interviewing and manufacturingcompanies: a framework to guide qualitativesemi-structured interviews 193John R. Bryson, Chloe Billing, Chantal Hales,Rachel Mulhall and Megan Ronayne11 Reading manufacturing firms and new researchagendas: scalar-plasticity, value/risk and theemergency of Jenga Capitalism 211John R. BrysonIndex