Manufacturing Time: Global Competition in the Watch Industry, 1795-2000 - Couverture rigide

Glasmeier, Amy K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1572305894 ISBN 13 : 9781572305892

Editeur : Guilford Publications, 2000

Synopsis

Since the large-scale manufacture of personal timepieces began, industry leadership has shifted among widely disparate locations, production systems, and cultures. This book recounts the story of the quest for supremacy in the manufacture of watches--from the cottage industries of Britain; to the preeminence of Switzerland and, later, the United States; to the high-tech plants of Japan and the sweatshops of Hong Kong. Glasmeier examines both the strategies adopted by specific firms and the interplay of such varying influences as technological change, cyclical economic downturns, war, and national trade policies. In so doing, she delineates a cohesive framework within which to address such broader questions as how sustained regional economic development takes place (or starts and then stops); how decisions made by corporations are structured by internal and external forces; and the ways industrial cultures with different strategic learning capabilities facilitate or thwart the pursuit of technological change.

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À propos de l'auteur

Amy K. Glasmeier, PhD, is the director of the Center for Regional Research and Industrial Studies at the Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation, The Pennsylvania State University. She has published three books on international industrial and economic development and more than 50 scholarly articles. Her current research focuses on community impacts of globalization, regional development, poverty alleviation, and industrial change.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Guilford Publications
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1572305894
• ISBN 13: 9781572305892
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 311
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