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Is Advanced Automation Consistent with Sustainable Economic Growth in Developed World?

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ENTERprise Information Systems (CENTERIS 2011)

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This paper investigates the impact of automation and new globalization phenomenon, outsourcing on sustainable economic growth. Its main scope is to analyze the impacts of automation technology and offshore outsourcing in manufacturing on a structural unemployment. Simultaneously, in the paper is given a special emphasis to the automation driven shrinking of the middle class in countries that are passing to the phase of deindustrialization. Finally, Three Laws of Automation in Manufacturing are formulated and few ideas and recommendations for the future are outlined.

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  1. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

    Andrew Targowski

  2. President of International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, USA

    Andrew Targowski

  3. Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

    Vladimír Modrák

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e Ave, Vila Frescainha S. Martinho BCL, 4750-810, Portugal

    Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha

  2. University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5001-801, Vila Real, Portugal

    João Varajão

  3. Birkbeck, University of London, WC1E 7HX, London, UK

    Philip Powell

  4. School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901, Leiria, Portugal

    Ricardo Martinho

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Targowski, A., Modrák, V. (2011). Is Advanced Automation Consistent with Sustainable Economic Growth in Developed World?. In: Cruz-Cunha, M.M., Varajão, J., Powell, P., Martinho, R. (eds) ENTERprise Information Systems. CENTERIS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 219. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24358-5_7

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