Functional integration
Functional integration represents the harmonization by the market in the context of economic integration . It is an ex-post consideration, since it is only after competitive adjustment processes that it can be determined which standards, regulations and locations will prevail.
Institutional integration forms the opposite of functional integration .
Web link
- https://books.google.de/books?id=dVso_bxwaaAC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=wirtschaftlich-funktionelle+Integration&source=bl&ots=ygqumzKSGW&sig=iuAFOPmKwHE_TlCyvXjvy10Q_n0&hl=de&sa=X&ei=FBGwVNbWE8u7ygOS_oHYDA&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=wirtschaftlich-funktionelle%20Integration&f= false accessed on January 9, 2015
- http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/volltexte/0430/2._Traditionelle_Integrationstheorie.pdf accessed on January 9, 2015