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Record Nr.

UNINA9910135954203321

Autore

Donze Pierre-Yves.

Titolo

Industrial development, technology transfer, and global competition : a history of the Japanese watch industry since 1850 / / Pierre-Yves Donze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-22632-1

1-315-62354-4

1-317-22633-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies ; ; 66

Disciplina

338.4/76811140952

Soggetti

Clock and watch industry - Japan - History

Clock and watch makers - Japan - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. The birth of an industry (1850-1945) -- pt. II. The conquest of the world (1945-1985) -- pt. III. The Japanese watch industry since 1985.

Sommario/riassunto

The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the twentieth century and the general shift of competitiveness to East Asia since the 1980s have been widely studied by many scholars from different fields of the social sciences. Drawing on sources from Japanese, Swiss, and American archives, the historical analysis of this book tackles a wide range of actors and sheds light on the various processes that enabled Japanese watch companies to transfer technology and expand commercially starting in the second half of the nineteenth century. By exploring the case of the watch industry, this book serves to establish a better understanding of the origins of the competitiveness of Japanese manufacturing and its evolution until its decline in the post‐bubble economy (in the 1990s and 2000s).