"Being there": Proximity, organization, and culture in the development and adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies

Economy: Critical Essays in Human Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 351-376

  Gertler, Meric S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flexible machinery; Industrial networks; Training; User producer interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867492699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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