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The Corporate Firm in a Changing World Economy (RLE International Business) : Case Studies in the Geography of Enterprise.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smidt, M. de.
- Series:
- Routledge Library Editions: International Business Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International business enterprises--Location--Case studies.
- International business enterprises -- Location -- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Corporate Firm in a Changeing World Economy
- Copyright Page
- 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 region
- 9 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Smidt, Marc de The Corporate Firm in a Changing World Economy (RLE International Business)
- ISBN:
- 9781135126117
- OCLC:
- 839547337
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