Locating Global Advantage

Locating Global Advantage
Author: Martin Kenney
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780804747585

This volume explores how industries organize their global operations, through case studies of seven manufacturing industries. The chapters provide a nuanced understanding of the complex matrix of factor costs, access to inimitable capabilities, and time-based pressures that influence where firms decide to locate particular segments of the value chain.