LEADER 02827oam 2200505 450 001 9910779571303321 005 20190911100040.0 010 $a0-203-07652-4 010 $a1-299-44866-6 010 $a1-135-12611-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203076521 035 $a(OCoLC)846979982 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL8PWK 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001018494 100 $a20141209d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe corporate firm in a changing world economy $ecase studies in the geography of enterprise /$fedited by Marc de Smidt and Egbert Wever 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) 225 0 $aRoutledge library editions. International business ;$vv. 36 300 $aFirst published in 1990 by Routledge. 311 $a1-138-00793-5 311 $a0-415-65777-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Firms: Strategy and changing environments; 2 IBM: The corporate chameleon; 3 Philips: A global electronics firm restructures its home base; 4 Standard Elektrik Lorenz: Introducing CAD into a telecommunications firm: its impact on labour; 5 Goodman Fielder Wattie: Good Food World-wide? Internationalization and performance; 6 ccFriesland: Spatial dynamics within a dynamic company; 7 MacMillan Bloedel: Corporate restructuring and employment change 327 $a8 Nissan Motor Company: Stages of international growth, locational profile, and subcontracting in the Tokyo region9 Volvo: The organization of work: a determinant of the future location of manufacturing enterprises; 10 Daewoo: Corporate growth and spatial organization; 11 The geography of enterprise: elements of a research agenda; Index 330 $aThis book examines the economic environment and phenomena of multinational business with reference to case studies of major multinational companies, including IBM, Philips, Nissan and Volvo. 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Seekins 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aRoutledge Studies in Asia's Transformations 311 08$a1-138-85807-2 311 08$a1-306-88210-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : the "abode of the king" and the "city of peace" -- 1. The Shwedagon Pagoda : sacred space and power politics -- 2. The rise and fall of British Rangoon, 1824-1941 -- 3. Landscapes of resistance in colonial Rangoon -- 4. The city from war to military rule, 1941-1958 -- 5. The city under military rule, 1958-1988 -- 6. Covert and overt resistance to the state, 1962-1976 -- 7. Rangoon from popular uprising to pacification, 1987-1988 -- 8. Transforming Rangoon, 1988-2009 -- 9. Rangoon's new Buddhist landscapes -- Conclusion : state and society. 330 $aWhile most of Asia's major cities are increasingly homogenized by rapid economic growth and cultural globalization, Rangoon, which is Burma's former capital and largest city, still bears the imprint of a unique and often turbulent history. It is the site of the Shwedagon Pagoda, a focus of Buddhist pilgrimage and devotion since the early second millennium C.E. that continues to play a major role in national life. In 1852, the British occupied Rangoon and made it their colonial capital, building a modern port and administrative center based on western designs. It became the capital of independent Burma in 1948, but in 2005 the State Peace and Development Council military junta established a new, heavily fortified capital at Naypyidaw, 320 kilometers north of the old capital. A major motive for the capital relocation was the regime's desire to put distance between itself and Rangoon's historically restive population. Reacting to the huge anti-government demonstrations of "Democracy Summer" in 1988, the new military regime used massive violence to pacify the city and sought to transform it in line with its supreme goal of state security. However, the "Saffron Revolution" of September 2007 showed that Rangoon's traditions of resistance reaching back to the colonial era are still very much alive. 410 0$aRoutledge studies in Asia's transformations. 607 $aRangoon (Burma)$xPolitics and government 676 $a959.1 676 $a959.1 700 $aSeekins$b Donald M.$0475732 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910975217703321 996 $aState and society in modern Rangoon$94494743 997 $aUNINA