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Industrial Complexes as the Centres of Gravity for Green Industrial Restructuring

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Many European observers have long regarded restructuring as a passing phase, during which the industrialised economies have to adjust to slower growth and to changing international conditions, before eventually settling in a new equilibrium. Today it appears not only that global competition has intensified, but that restructuring may be a permanent phenomenon, whether companies be knowledge-intensive, capital-intensive or labour-intensive.

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Ruigrok, W. (2001). Industrial Complexes as the Centres of Gravity for Green Industrial Restructuring. In: Binder, M., Jänicke, M., Petschow, U. (eds) Green Industrial Restructuring. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04419-3_8

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