The corporate firm in a changing world economy : case studies in the geography of enterprise / / edited by Marc de Smidt and Egbert Wever
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The corporate firm in a changing world economy : case studies in the geography of enterprise / / edited by Marc de Smidt and Egbert Wever
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 338.8/8 |
| Soggetto topico: | International business enterprises - Location - Case studies |
| Industrial location - Case studies | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | SmidtM. de |
| WeverE | |
| Note generali: | First published in 1990 by Routledge. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front 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 |
| 8 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. It assesses how the major theories explaining the response of companies to changes are borne out by the experience of individual firms. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The corporate firm in a changing world economy |
| ISBN: | 0-203-07652-4 |
| 1-299-44866-6 | |
| 1-135-12611-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813103903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge Library Editions: International Business