Industrial Development, Technology Transfer, and Global Competition A History of the Japanese Watch Industry Since 1850 |
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Author:
| Donze, Pierre-Yves |
Series title: | Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies |
ISBN: | 978-1-317-22632-1 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2016 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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Imprint: | Routledge |
Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | USD $48.95 |
Book Description:
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The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the 20th century and the general shift of competitiveness to East Asia since the 1980s have been widely studied by many scholars from different fields of the social sciences. Drawing on sources from Japanese, Swiss, and American archives, this book tackles a wide range of actors and sheds light on the various processes that enabled Japanese watch companies to transfer technology and expand...
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The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the 20th century and the general shift of competitiveness to East Asia since the 1980s have been widely studied by many scholars from different fields of the social sciences. Drawing on sources from Japanese, Swiss, and American archives, this book tackles a wide range of actors and sheds light on the various processes that enabled Japanese watch companies to transfer technology and expand commercially starting in the second half of the 19th century.