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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799975403321

Autore

D'Costa Anthony P. <1957, >

Titolo

The global restructuring of the steel industry : innovations, institutions and industrial change / / Anthony P. D'Costa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-75309-8

0-429-23153-9

1-280-11101-1

1-134-75310-1

0-585-46199-6

0-203-42522-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in international business and the world economy ; ; 13

Disciplina

338.4/7669142

Soggetti

Steel industry and trade

Steel industry and trade - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 The restructuring of the steel industry; Introduction; Explaining industrial restructuring; Outline of chapters; 2 An institutional interpretation of steel industry restructuring: an analytical framework; Introduction; The restructuring issue; Technology and restructuring: an analytical framework; Conclusion; 3 Technological change and crisis in the American steel industry; Introduction; Strategic adoption of new innovations; The crisis compounded

Crisis-inspired restructuring: disinvestment and institutional changeConclusion; 4 Technological change and rapid industrial development in Japan and South Korea; Introduction; State-led late industrialization; Institutional response to new innovations; Excess capacity, maturity, and Japanese restructuring; Conclusion; 5 Technological change and institutional challenges in Brazil, India, and Korea; Introduction; State-led capitalist industrialization; Overcoming



structural dependence; Institutional challenges to industrial restructuring

Technology diffusion and capability in Brazil, India, and KoreaConclusion: institutional capacity and industrial restructuring; 6 Technological change and the internationalization of the steel industry; Introduction; US imports and the changing international division of labor; Cost of production and labor productivity; Global realignments in the steel industry; Conclusion; 7 Innovations, entrepreneurial breakthroughs, and industry restructuring; Introduction; The emergence of minimills; Technological breakthroughs in the non-integrated steelmaking process

The diffusion of new technologies and restructuringConclusion: new technologies and industrial restructuring; 8 Interpreting technological change and industrial restructuring; Introduction; Restructuring and capitalist industrialization; Institutional change and restructuring; Technology, strategy, and the international division of labor; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix: institutions visited and/or contacted for data collection; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using case studies from USA, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and India, this work explains how and why the steel industry has shifted from the advanced capitalist countries to the late industrializing countries.