Academic outputs

Here you can find short descriptions and links to the academic outputs of the Changing Lanes project. They are either directly related to the UK automotive industry or are focused on industrial and regional policies and partially informed by the broader findings of the project.

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Brexit and beyond: a Pandora's Box?
The is an introduction to a special issue of Contemporary Social Science focusing on Brexit. It was co-authored by David Bailey and Leslie Budd. Besides introducing the issue, it reflects on the causes and consequences of Brexit.

Strategic management and regional industrial strategy: cross-fertilization to mutual advantage
Co-authored by David Bailey, Christos Pitelis, and Phili R. Tomlinson, this study critically revisits theories on strategic management (SM) and regional industrial strategy (RIS) and considers the scope for cross-fertilization to mutual advantage. The aim is to explore the relevance and scalability of SM value-capture strategies to RIS, and by showing how the focus of RIS on sustainability and value creation can benefit SM. The article was published in Regional Studies.

Industry 4.0, Regional Disparities and Transformative Industrial Policy
Co-authored by David Bailey and Lisa De Propris, this is a chapter in Regional Studies Policy Impact Books - Revitalising Lagging Regions: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0. The chapter looks at the EU Smart Specialisation Strategies and how they can be a part of modern industrial policies.

Pushing regional studies beyond its borders
This paper, co-authored by John Harrison, Mercedes Delgado, Ben Derudder, Isabelle Anguelovski, Sergio Montero, David Bailey, and Lisa De Propris, explores how to push the field of regional studies beyond its present institutional, conceptual and methodological borders. It does this from five perspectives: innovation and competitiveness; globalization and urbanization; social and environmental justice; local and regional development; and industrial policy. It argues that the future of regional studies requires approaches that, in combination, result in the pushing on (by creating), pushing off (by consolidating), pushing back (by critiquing) and pushing forward (by collectively constructing) the field. It is published in Regional Studies.

The urban and regional impacts of plant closures: new methods and perspectives
This article, co-authored by Andrew Beer, Sally Weller, Tom Barnes, Ilke Onur, Julie Ratcliffe, David Bailey, and Markku Sotarauta, looks at new methods and concepts for understanding how large-scale plant closures affect society and the economy across the local, regional and national scales. The focus is on the specific needs for more extensive data collection, on applying previously neglected methods, such as discrete-choice experiments, as well as on integrating policy-responses to plant closures into the core of the analysis. The paper is published in Regional Studies, Regional Science.

Industrial policy, place and democracy
In this article, co-authored with Dan Coffey, Maria Gavris, and Carole Thornley, David Bailey looks at the history of industrial policies in Western Europe, their recent change back towards picking favored industries, firms, and regions, and reflects on how industrial policy can be done in a more participative and democratic fashion. The paper is published in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

Industrial policy: new technologies and transformative innovation policies?
This editorial, co-authored with Amy Glasmeier, Philip R. Tomlinson, and Peter Tyler, both introduces the issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, and reflects on the history of industrial policy in developed countries.

Industrial policy back on the agenda: putting industrial policy in its place?
David Bailey is co-author, together with Amy Glasmeier and Philip R. Tomlinson, of this editorial in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Apart from introducing the journal issue, the editorial also briefly reflects on UK industrial policy and particularly place-based approaches to it.

Brexit Negotiations After Article 50: Assessing Process, Progress and Impact
This book, edited by Alex de Ruyter and Beverley Nielsen, and published by Emerald Insights, brings together contributors from academia, politics and practice to discuss and debate the progress (or lack of) of Brexit to date. David Bailey wrote the chapter on the situation in the automotive sector.

Industry 4.0 and Regional Transformations
David Bailey, together with Lisa de Propris, is co-editor of this Routledge volume on the opportunities and challenges brought about by Industry 4.0 technologies. The various chapters look at the effects on regional and industrial policies, jobs and skills, sustainability, and a host of other topics. Apart from editing the volume, David Bailey wrote the chapters on industrial policy, on how Industry 4.0 is playing out in the automotive industry, and, with Lisa de Propris, the introductory chapter.