[PDF] Industries And Global Competition eBook

Author : Bram Bouwens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317190645

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Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have remained competitive even without relocating their operations overseas. Industries and Global Competition examines how and why the specificities of certain industries and firms determined their choice of location and competitiveness. This volume identifies the major drivers of this process and explains why some firms and industries moved to other parts of world while others did not. Relocation was not the sole determinant of the success or failure of firms and industries. Indeed some were able to reinvent themselves at their original location and build new competitive advantages. The path that each industry or firm took varied. This book argues that the specific characteristics of each industry defined the conditions of competitiveness and provide a wide range of cases as illustrations. Aimed at scholars, researchers and acadmeics in the fields of business history, international business and related disciplines Industries and Global Competition exmaines the unique questions; How and why did the specificities of certain industries and firms determine their choice of location and competitiveness? Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Michael E. Porter
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780875841403

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Examines patterns of international competition since the 1960s.

Author : John Fahy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2002-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134560176

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Dramatic changes are taking place in the world of international business as we move forward in the twenty first century. Increasing levels of international trade and foreign direct investment, the growth of huge multinational corporations, and the emergence of new centres of economic prosperity are all evident. Businesses are faced with the challenge of having to survive and succeed in this competitive environment. This book looks specifically at the question of how firms attain a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in a global environment characterised by above average levels of geographic scope, marketing convergence and cross-national interdependencies. This work will be of essential interest to academics and researchers in the fields of international strategy and international business.

Author : Edward Montgomery Graham
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780881321661

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There is growing consensus among international trade negotiators and policymakers that a prime area for future multilateral discussion is competition policy. Competition policy includes antitrust policy (including merger regulation and control) but is often extended to include international trade measures and other policies that affect the structure, conduct, and performance of individual industries. This study includes country studies of competition policy in Western Europe, North America, and the Far East (with a focus on Japan) in the light of increasingly globalized activities of business firms. Areas where there are major differences in philosophy, policy, or practice are identified, with emphasis on those differences that could lead to economic costs and international friction. Alternatives for eliminating these costs and frictions are discussed, including unilateral policy changes, bilateral or multilateral harmonization of policies, and creation of new international regimes to supplement or replace national or regional regimes.

Author : Jeffrey L. Funk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230288863

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Managing technology and globalization are two of the main concerns facing companies today. This book argues that the success of firms such as Ericsson and Nokia is a function of how they have managed these two areas simultaneously. The author summarises the development of the global mobile communications industry to date, examining how global standards have been established, and why particular firms have succeeded within these standards. He goes on to examine the factors that will determine the market leaders in third-generation mobile communications systems and phones, and shows how other high technology industries can benefit from the strategies used.

Author : Amy Glasmeier
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781572305892

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Since the large-scale manufacture of personal timepieces began, industry leadership has shifted among widely disparate locations, production systems, and cultures. This book recounts the story of the quest for supremacy in the manufacture of watches--from the cottage industries of Britain; to the preeminence of Switzerland and, later, the United States; to the high-tech plants of Japan and the sweatshops of Hong Kong. Glasmeier examines both the strategies adopted by specific firms and the interplay of such varying influences as technological change, cyclical economic downturns, war, and national trade policies. In so doing, she delineates a cohesive framework within which to address such broader questions as how sustained regional economic development takes place (or starts and then stops); how decisions made by corporations are structured by internal and external forces; and the ways industrial cultures with different strategic learning capabilities facilitate or thwart the pursuit of technological change.

Author : Sónia Félix
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513521519

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This paper studies the macroeconomic effect and underlying firm-level transmission channels of a reduction in business entry costs. We provide novel evidence on the response of firms' entry, exit, and employment decisions. To do so, we use as a natural experiment a reform in Portugal that reduced entry time and costs. Using the staggered implementation of the policy across the Portuguese municipalities, we find that the reform increased local entry and employment by, respectively, 25% and 4.8% per year in its first four years of implementation. Moreover, around 60% of the increase in employment came from incumbent firms expanding their size, with most of the rise occurring among the most productive firms. Standard models of firm dynamics, which assume a constant elasticity of substitution, are inconsistent with the expansionary and heterogeneous response across incumbent firms. We show that in a model with heterogeneous firms and variable markups the most productive firms face a lower demand elasticity and expand their employment in response to increased entry.

Author : Porter
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780071032629

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This book provides a framework for understanding the nature of international competition in industries & its strategic implications for firms. It documents the historical transformation of international competition & shows how global competition changes the way marketing, production, government relations, & finance should be managed. The book also addresses the organizational challenges involved in implementing global strategies. In-depth case studies illustrate the interplay of these factors in particular industries chosen to illuminate the issues facing today's managers. "When the world's acknowledged authority on competitive strategy meshes his concepts into an international framework, fresh insights are bound to emerge. Porter, with a lot of help from his Harvard colleagues, doesn't disappoint." -International Management