Flexible specialization designates an economical strategy of industrial enterprises.

A priority goal during the flexible specialization is it to organize an enterprise in such a way that it can adapt at short notice to the conditions on permanently and fast changing markets. Instead of mass production in large-scale enterprises production in innovative and flexible small and medium-sized enterprises is organized, which (locally or regionally) are interlaced. The flexibility results from the employment more modern, to the changing requirements adaptable machines, which are served by qualified personnel. In this system then also small numbers of items can be profitably produced.

The example for this strategy is the northItalian economic structure, like it since center of the 1980er years developed (Benneton system).

see also: Virtual enterprise, Fordism, Toyotismus, regularization theory

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• Product Competition and Upstream Flexible Specialization
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• The Dynamics of Industrial Location
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