The Global Factory

Author : Peter J. Buckley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786431332

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The Global Factory by Peter J. Buckley Pdf

This key new book synthesises Peter Buckley's work on ‘the global factory’ – the modern networked multinational enterprise. The role of interfirm networks, entrepreneurship and cooperation in the creation and management of global factories leads to a discussion of their governance, internal knowledge transfer strategies and performance, including their role in potentially combating societal failures. Emerging country multinationals are examined as a special case of global factories with a focus on Indian and Chinese multinationals, their involvement in tax havens and offshore financial centres, the performance and processes of their acquisition strategies – all seen as key aspects of globalisation.

Author : Kevin H. Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135992897

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China as the World Factory by Kevin H. Zhang Pdf

Few countries have integrated into the world economy as fast – or as dramatically – as China has since 1978. The world’s most populous country is emerging as a world workshop and export machine: a visit to a department store in any country will unearth a plethora of goods manufactured in the People’s Republic. China is now the world’s fourth largest exporting nation. In this important book, Kevin Zhang brings together an international team of contributors to analyze this development process. Taking a thematic approach, the book covers: * manufacturing exports and the world workshop * foreign capital and china’s industrial development * challenges from the WTO and openness. This topical analysis will be an excellent resource for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of Asian and Chinese studies, export studies, and economics.

Author : Annette Fuentes,Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896081982

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Women in the Global Factory by Annette Fuentes,Barbara Ehrenreich Pdf

In free trade zones all over the world, women make up 80 to 90 percent of the workforce. Women in the Global Factory explores the lives of these women--from California's Silicon Valley to Mexico's maquiladoras (border factories) to

Author : Peter J. Buckley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137402387

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The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory by Peter J. Buckley Pdf

The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory brings together research papers authored by Peter J. Buckley, focusing on three of the most important empirical and theoretical issues in the global economy: the rise of the 'global factory'; the growth of FDI from emerging economies; recent developments in the theory of IB.

Author : Moritz Altenried
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226815480

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The Digital Factory by Moritz Altenried Pdf

"In recent years, tech companies such as Google and Facebook have rocked the world as they have seemingly revolutionized the culture of work. We've all heard stories of lounges outfitted with ping pong tables, kitchens with kombucha on tap, and other amenities that supposedly foster creative thinking. Nothing could seem further from earlier workplaces associated with a different revolution in capitalism: factories, in which employees are required to perform highly circumscribed tasks as quickly as possible to meet quotas--for next to no pay. However, as Moritz Altenried shows in The Digital Factory, these types of workplaces are not so far from the Googleplex as we might think. While recent accounts of the transformation of labor after the demise of the factory highlight the creative, communicative, immaterial, or artistic features of contemporary labor, Altenried uncovers the factory-like conditions in which many new digital workers perform their jobs. These workers, such as video game testers, social media content moderators, and Amazon fulfillment center workers, perform highly repetitive, unskilled tasks for low and often contingent wages. Based on more than five years of research in different sites using ethnography and interviews combined with an analysis of infrastructural technologies, Altenried's book gives us a first-hand account of many new forms of digital labor that drive contemporary capitalism. He shows that though today's factories might look and feel different than they did 150 years ago, they still follow the same logics and produce the same unequal outcomes"--

Author : Joseph Grunwald,Kenneth Flamm
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815733038

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The Global Factory by Joseph Grunwald,Kenneth Flamm Pdf

Author : Irene Yuan Sun
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633692824

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The Next Factory of the World by Irene Yuan Sun Pdf

A Best Business Book of 2017 -- The Financial Times China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa. It's Africa's largest trade partner, the largest infrastructure financier, and the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding into the continent, investing in long-term assets such as factories and heavy equipment. Considering Africa's difficult history of colonialism, one might suspect that China's activity there is another instance of a foreign power exploiting resources. But as author Irene Yuan Sun vividly shows in this remarkable book, it is really a story about resilient Chinese entrepreneurs building in Africa what they so recently learned to build in China--a global manufacturing powerhouse. The fact that China sees Africa not for its poverty but for its potential wealth is a striking departure from the attitude of the West, particularly that of the United States. Despite fifty years of Western aid programs, Africa still has more people living in extreme poverty than any other region in the world. Those who are serious about raising living standards across the continent know that another strategy is needed. Chinese investment gives rise to a tantalizing possibility: that Africa can industrialize in the coming generation. With a manufacturing-led transformation, Africa would be following in the footsteps of the United States in the nineteenth century, Japan in the early twentieth, and the Asian Tigers in the late twentieth. Many may consider this an old-fashioned way to develop, but as Sun argues, it's the only one that's proven to raise living standards across entire societies in a lasting way. And with every new Chinese factory boss setting up machinery and hiring African workers--and managers--that possibility becomes more real for Africa. With fascinating and moving human stories along with incisive business and economic analysis, The Next Factory of the World will make you rethink both China's role in the world and Africa's future in the globalized economy.

Author : Peter J. Buckley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Factory management
ISBN : 1848440758

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Globalization and the Global Factory by Peter J. Buckley Pdf

This timely and authoritative collection presents seminal papers from leading academics on the evolving field of globalization and its effects on corporations and enterprises. Professor Buckley has selected key works which define the global factory and cover important research areas including the antecedents of the global factory, the effect of globalization on international networks, offshoring and outsourcing as well as formal theoretical models. This indispensable volume, with an original introduction by the editor, will be of immense value to students, scholars and practitioners interested in this topical and relevant field.

Author : Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896086380

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Sweatshop Warriors by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie Pdf

In this up-close and personal look at the heroines who make family, community, and society tick, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie showcases immigrant women workers speaking out for themselves, in their own words. While public outrage over sweatshops builds in intensity, this book shows us who these workers really are and how they are leading campaigns to fight for their rights. In-depth, accessible analyses of the immigration, labor, and trade policies, which together have forced these women into the most dangerous, poorly paid jobs, dovetail with vivid portraits of the women themselves. Louie, a longtime writer/activist and well-known figure in feminist, immigrant, and labor circles, is uniquely poised to make her case: that the labor of immigrant women worker-activists not only sustains families and communities, but the vibrant social activism that undergirds democracy itself. With chapters on successful campaigns against Levi-Strauss, Donna Karan, and restaurants in Los Angeles; Koreatown, among others. Miriam Ching Yoon Louie is a longtime writer/activist in campaigns to organize women of color. She is national campaign media director of Fuerza Unida, a board member of the Women of Color Resource Center, and former media director of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. Her essays and articles on immigrant women and labor issues have been widely anthologized, including in the 1997 collection Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (South End Press) and she speaks at public events internationally. She is the co-author, with Linda Burnham, of Women's Education in the Global Economy (Women of Color Resource Center, 2000).

Author : Peter J. Buckley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137402387

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The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory by Peter J. Buckley Pdf

The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory brings together research papers authored by Peter J. Buckley, focusing on three of the most important empirical and theoretical issues in the global economy: the rise of the 'global factory'; the growth of FDI from emerging economies; recent developments in the theory of IB.

Author : Leslie Salzinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520929306

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Genders in Production by Leslie Salzinger Pdf

In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that transnational production is a gendered process. The research grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides an important new perspective on globalization.

Author : Rachel Kamel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : CD-ROMs
ISBN : OCLC:39910911

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The Global Factory by Rachel Kamel Pdf

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 157488641X

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The World Factbook 2003 by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

By intelligence officials for intelligent people

Author : John R. Bryson,Jennifer Clark,Vida Vanchan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781003930

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Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy by John R. Bryson,Jennifer Clark,Vida Vanchan Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume provides a critical and multi-disciplinary review of current manufacturing processes, practices, and policies, and broadens our understanding of production and innovation in the world economy. Chapters highlight how firms

Author : Leslie T. Chang
Publisher : Random House
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385520188

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Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang Pdf

An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta. As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a never-before-seen picture of migrant life—a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation. A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.