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The Corporate firm in a changing world economy : case studies in the geography of enterprise /

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 exper...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smidt, M. de, Wever, E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.
Colección:Routledge library editions. International business.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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