Production structure

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In economics, the production structure is the quantitative ratio between the production of individual branches of industry and the total output value of an economy .

General

Structure in this context is the division ( disaggregation ) of an overall size into partial sizes that are inherently more homogeneous than the overall size. The total size is the total economic production, partial sizes are the production shares of individual branches of the economy in total production. These relationships can be recorded statistically with the help of so-called structural shares of the individual economic sectors.

In this way, the production structure can be examined, for example in agricultural production .

Classic production structure models

The production structure answers the question of which good should be produced, the production factor allocation the question of how . The allocation of the production factors is optimally solved when the production follows the principle of economic efficiency , the problem of the production structure is optimally solved when the production is based on the customer's wishes . The adaptation of the production structure is made by companies for reasons of profit maximization and not because there has been a shift in customer requirements. However, since consumers decide on the sale of goods, the production structure must be adapted to customer requirements so that the problem of the production structure is solved by consumer sovereignty .

If there are only two goods on a market, the question arises of how much of good 1 and how much of good 2 should be produced. The production structure is optimal when it is no longer possible to increase consumer welfare due to a restructuring of the range . It is a very highly diversified, poly-structural production structure. With an optimal production structure, the marginal value product of a production factor is the same for all goods. In contrast, there are production structures called monostructures .

Peter B. Kenen emphasizes the likelihood that two or more states will be hit by asymmetric shocks . Countries with highly diversified production structures are generally less affected by shifts in demand for individual goods than countries with highly concentrated production structures. Tend to tend small and medium-sized states to mono structures, surface states on the other hand usually have diversified production structures.

The distinction between horizontal and vertical production structure is of little importance. The horizontal production structure relates to groups of goods with the same level of consumption, while the vertical structure relates to groups of goods with different levels of consumption.

Business administration

The concept of production structure is rarely found in business administration . It contains the organizational assignment of the type of production ( individual , series , type and mass production ) and their spatial connection with individual resources in the company.

Demarcation

The structure of production differs from the economic structure in that the latter includes all economic variables and not just the value of production.

literature

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Sigvart Clasen, The flexibility of the economic production structure , 1966, p. 10
  3. ↑ Ulrich Willerding , Agricultural Production Structures in the Middle Ages , in: Bernd Herrmann (Ed.), Mensch und Umwelt im Mittelalter , Stuttgart 1986, 3rd anastatic edition, pp. 244-256
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Cezanne, Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre , 2005, p. 7
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  7. ↑ Wolfgang Cezanne, Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre , 2005, p. 27
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Cezanne, Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre, 2005, p. 209
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Cezanne, Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre , 2005, p. 209
  10. ↑ Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (ed.), Compact Lexicon Economic Theory , 2013, p. 301
  11. ↑ Peter B. Kenen, The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas , in: American Economic Association, 1969, pp. 49 ff.
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  13. ↑ Hernández Morales, Systematics of changeability in factory planning , in: VDI series 16, technology and economy, 2002, p. 64 ff.