Specialization and Integration

Integration, specialization, and adjustment

The paper considers the location of two industries in two countries. Both industries are imperfectly competitive, producing goods for final consumption and use as intermediates. Intermediate usage creates cost and demand linkages between firms, encouraging industrial agglomeration. With high trade barriers each industry operates in both locations in order to supply final consumers. At lower tra...

Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration Dagstuhl Seminar

From 04.12.05 to 09.12.05, the Dagstuhl Seminar 05491 Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of ...

Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New Specialization

Developing a new specialization—Integration and Implementation Sciences—may be an effective way to draw together and significantly strengthen the theory and methods necessary to tackle complex societal issues and problems. This paper presents an argument for such a specialization, beginning with a brief review of calls for new research approaches that combine disciplines and interact more close...

The Dynamic Limits of Specialization: Vertical Integration Reconsidered

Existing studies, largely based in transaction cost economics, approach the issue of vertical scope as the decision of the individual firm about whether to make or buy, given the set of existing markets and well defined vertical segments. However, recent research has shown that the ability to make or buy should not be taken for granted. We argue that this applies not only to dis-integration, bu...

Cellular specialization of synaptic integration in a mammalian sympathetic ganglion