The co-location of production and distribution: emergent trends in consumer services |
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Authors: | John J Quinn Keith Dickson |
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a Department of Management Studies, Brunel University of West London, Uxbridge, UK |
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Abstract: | This paper identifies ,re-emergence, of the co-location of elements of the production 'process with the distribution process in a range of consumer series. It suggests that this trend is being facilitated by technological development, particularity in control systems, that allow many of the benefits of centralized production to be achieved with decentralized production and that co-location satisfies additional consumer preferences, not achievable with centralized production. The authors indicate how this trend might be examined within a posi--Fordist framework. |
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