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The global environment of business

Frederick Guy 1954-

Oxford Oxford University Press New York, NY 2009

Localização: FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e Atuária    (337.1 G986g )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    The global environment of business
  • Autor: Frederick Guy 1954-
  • Assuntos: International economic integration; Globalization; Multinationales Unternehmen; Weltwirtschaft; Globalisierung; Wirtschaftliche Integration; INTEGRAÇÃO ECONÔMICA INTERNACIONAL; GLOBALIZAÇÃO
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references ([263]-280) and index
  • Descrição: Introduction -- Technological change and international production -- Cars : from national to international markets -- The global, the regional, the corporation, and the state -- Theories of international production -- Technological change and the internationalization of production -- Summing up -- Globalization -- What's hapening? -- Globalization in the long run -- Globalization's retreats -- More useful ways of talking about changes in international interdependence and connectedness today -- Some economic concepts -- Standard trade theory -- Origins : Smith and Ricardo -- Increasing returns -- Increasing returns and the theory of international trade -- The politics of international trade -- When the US and Germany were NICs -- The rise and decline of free trade -- Cheap grain -- Empire -- Natural resources, transaction costs, and colonial control -- Control without colonies -- Explaining decolonization -- The consequences of designing institutions for resource extraction -- Changing technology, changing industry -- Industrial revolutions -- Socioeconomic paradigms -- Long waves and hegemonic power -- The origins of the modern corporation in the age of steel -- How big machines led to big companies -- Why did big machines produce big companies? Three theories -- Mass production of machines -- Fordism, or the golden age of mass production -- The triumph of mass production -- Stabilizing mass production -- The end of the golden age -- Two forms of post-Fordism -- Japan and flexible mass production -- Visions of a post-Fordist world -- Explaining failures of transition : production methods embedded in institutions -- Actually existing American post-Fordism -- Varieties of capitalism -- Institutional difference as a source of comparative advantage -- Two varieties of capitalism? -- Labor market institutions -- Varieties of finance and corporate governance 00 Relationships between companies and systems of innovation -- Political systems : consensus and CMEs
  • Editor: Oxford Oxford University Press New York, NY
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2009
  • Formato: ix, 332 p. ill. 25 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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