The heterogeneity among European manufacturing systems has widened in the last 15 years under the competitive pressure of new industrial powers within and outside the EU boundaries and as a result of the 2008 global recession. This paper describes this transformation, in terms of the sectoral...

The heterogeneity among European manufacturing systems has widened in the last fifteen years under the competitive pressure of new industrial powers within and outside the EU boundaries, and as a result of the 2008 global recession. This paper describes such transformation, in terms of the...