num_pages: 360
description: There is within the corporate world an evolving international restructuring racebetween industrial complexesthat is set to intensify over the coming years.An industrial complex consists of suppliersdistributorsgovernmentsfinanciers and trade unions.It is the reorganisation of the relationship between the core firm and the above components that is set to change before very long.In this book Winfied Ruigrok and Rob van Tulder address many current debates on topics such as Post-Fordismglobalisation and lean production.They also identify a number pf rival internationalisation strategies that have been adopted by different companies.Moreoverthey present an abundance of newas well as historical dataon the world's one hundred largest core companies.This data shows that none of the largest core firms is truly global or borderlessand that virtually all of them in their history have benefited decisively from Governmental trade or industrial policies.The authors offer a highly interdisciplinary effort to link three previously isolated debates on industrial restructuringglobalisation and international trade policies.The Logic of International Restructuring is aimed at a wide academicpost-graduate and professional audience working in the areas of businesseconomicsorganisational studies and international relations.
language: English
title: The Logic of International Restructuring: The Management of Dependencies in Rival Industrial Complexes
publisher: Routledge