Global and local knowledge dynamics in an industry during modular transition a case study of the Airbus production network and the aerospace cluster in Hamburg, Northern Germany
Dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 2018 This thesis examines the interrelations between global and local industrial knowledge dynamics against the background of an increasing digitization and modularization of design and production. It analyzes how the transformation of a knowledge infrastructure in a high technology industry affects a local industry cluster. An infrastructure is a system of organizations, technologies and artifacts. A knowledge infrastructure codifies expert knowledge within common standards and design rules that diffuse within production networks. Modularity is a central organizational principle and architectural paradigm that structures knowledge relations in complex product design and production processes. Modularization, however, presupposes the codification of knowledge on the interoperability of separate modules into common technological standards. Hence, the emergence of modular industry structures implicates a change of the knowledge infrastructure underlying design and production relations that also affect spatial industry relations. In order to explore the multi-dimensional phenomenon of modularization the thesis relies on an engaged instead of a fragmented pluralism combining insights from the theoretical frameworks of global value chains, global production networks, the theory of modular systems and a relational perspective on regional development. The multi-dimensional empirical case study is designed around the aerospace cluster in the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg and its local and global embedding in wider structures of the Airbus production network including actors that are involved in standard formation and diffusion related activities. The introduction of technological and architectural innovations in the A380 program and its top-down implementation in the 1990s marks the start of the case study. Via integrating the dimension of the artifact the study examines how changes in the design architecture and the accompanying building of a new knowledge infrastructure cause changes in knowledge and production relations on the global and local scale. It relies on a combination of qualitative (interview data, field notes, documents) and quantitative data (supplier lists, cluster data bases) which have been analyzed based on principles of grounded theory building. The results of the study show how local knowledge relations became disembedded during modular transition and how global industrial and local territorial knowledge dynamics are interrelated. The insights contribute to deepen the understanding of how production networks and value chains change apart from the logics of capital dynamics and transaction cost economics. It, moreover, contributes to the literature on regional knowledge processes by showing how localized knowledge and knowledge processes can become disembedded and devaluated. |
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