Industries and Global Competition (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Business Beyond Borders
Redaktion: Bouwens, Bram; Kurosawa, Takafumi; Donzé, Pierre-Yves

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Industries and Global Competition examines how and why the specificities of certain industries and firms determined their choice of location and competitiveness. This volume identifies the major drivers of this process and explains why some firms and industries moved to other parts of world while others did not.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317190646
• Artikelnr.: 49268429

Autorenporträt

* Dr Bram Bouwens is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands. * Pierre-Yves Donzé is a Professor of Business History at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan. * Takafumi Kurosawa is a Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Industry History: Its Concepts and Methods
Takafumi Kurosawa
Part 1: FDI and Global Competition
1. Advantage of Being a Giant: The Global Cigarette Industry since the
1980s
Takashi Hirao
2. Access to Markets, Investment, Continentalization and Competitiveness:
The Evolution of the Canadian Auto Sector
Dimitry Anastakis
3. Different Ways to the Global Market: The Dynamics of Japan's Electrical
Equipment Companies
Shigehiro Nishimura
4. Exploring the Rise of Big Pharma: A French-Inspired Model for the Global
Vaccine Industry
Julia Yongue
Part 2: Localized Knowledge as a Lasting Competitive Advantage
5. Longevity in Regional Specialization: the Dutch Water Construction
Industry
Bram Bouwens
6. Going Global in Fragmented Markets: The European Publishing Industry
since the Second Postwar Period.
Nuria Puig and María Fernández-Moya
7. Small, Hidden and Competitive: the Japanese Chemical Industry since 1990
So Hirano
Part 3: Shift in Global Value Chains
8. Sourcing Competition across Industries: Japanese Department Stores and
the Global Fast Fashion
Rika Fujioka
9. "Swiss made" but Global: From Technology to Fashion in the Watch
Industry, 1950-2010
Pierre-Yves Donzé
10. How to Sail a Sinking Ship - Adapting to the Declining Competitiveness
of the European Shipping Industry
Stig Tenold and Jari Ojala
11. Three Markets and Three Types of Competitiveness: Pulp and Paper
Industry
Takafumi Kurosawa and Tomoko Hashino
Conclusion
Bram