Abstract
This chapter explores the resilience of industry sectors in context of the discussion about the resilience of regions. The case of the automotive industry sector illustrates that the UK auto industry has the capacity to recover after economic shocks and that firms in the industry sector undertake a range of adaptive and avoidance actions in remaking and remodeling itself in order to survive. However, it argues that sectoral resilience is a contestable concept; the issue being that resilience is generally seen as being the outcome of the actions of individual firms in the sector rather than as sectoral resilience per se. Secondly, it suggests that regional resilience needs to be understood as the interaction of the development of multi-scalar patterns of relational geographies of production in industrial sectors and that those are of increasing complexity. There is a need for an understanding of this and a policy response to match the complexity: an holistic approach to regional and industrial policy.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Creating economic resilience |
| Editors | Tim Vorley, Nick Williams |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication status | Submitted - 25 Nov 2016 |