The corporate firm in a changing world economy

The corporate firm in a changing world economy case studies in the geography of enterprise / [electronic resource] : edited by Marc de Smidt and Egbert Wever. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013. - xiv, 247 p. : ill., maps. - Routledge library editions. International business ; v. 36 .

First published in 1990 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Firms : strategy and changing environments / Marc de Smidt and Egbert Wever -- 2. IBM : the corporate chameleon / Tim Kelly and David Keeble -- 3. Philips : a global electronics firm restructures its home base / Marc de Smidt -- 4. Standard Elektrik Lorenz : introducing CAD into a telecommunications firm : its impact on labour / Martina Fuchs and Eike Schamp -- 5. Goodman Fielder Wattie : good food world-wide? : internationalization and performance / Richard Le Heron -- 6. ccFriesland : spatial dynamics within a dynamic company / Egbert Wever -- 7. MacMillan Bloedel : corporate restructuring and employment change / Trevor Barnes, Roger Hayter, and Eric Grass -- 8. Nissan motor company : stages of international growth, locational profile, and subcontracting in the Tokyo region / Atsuhiko Takeuchi -- 9. Volvo : the organization of work : a determinant of the future location of manufacturing enterprises / Claes Alvstam and Kajsa Ellegard -- 10. Daewoo : corporate growth and spatial organization / Sam Ock Park -- 11. The geography of enterprise : elements of a research agenda / Peter Dicken.




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