The Logic of International Restructuring

The Management of Dependencies in Rival Industrial Complexes

Winfried Ruigrok, Rob van Tulder

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136163005
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

There is within the corporate world an evolving international restructuring race,between industrial complexes,that is set to intensify over the coming years.An industrial complex consists of suppliers,distributors,governments,financiers 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-Fordism","globalisation" and "lean production".They also identify a number pf rival internationalisation strategies that have been adopted by different companies.Moreover,they present an abundance of new,as well as historical data,on the world's one hundred largest core companies.This data shows that none of the largest core firms is truly "global" or "borderless",and 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 restructuring,globalisation and international trade policies.The Logic of International Restructuring is aimed at a wide academic,post-graduate and professional audience working in the areas of business,economics,organisational studies and international relations.

Index

Note: Page numbers in italics represent diagrams/tables

Abegglen, J. C. and Stalk Jr, G. 45–6

ABN-Amro Bank 152

accumulation 17–18, 19

acquisitions see mergers and acquisitions

actor approach 63, 64–7, 70, 71, 114

AEG 108, 111n, 190, 217, 291, 305

aerospace industry 288

Africa 50, 197

Aglietta, M. 17

Agnelli family 99

agriculture 54, 224–6, 272, 274n

Airbus consortium 188, 227, 259

Aker, J. 174

Akzo 194, 292n

Alaska 134, 219

Alcatel Alsthom 87n, 158, 171, 195, 217, 219, 249, 291

Alfa Laval 87n, 161

alliance, weak/strong 304–5

Allied Signal 157, 192

Amaya, N. 214

American Telegraph and Telephone (AT&T) 154, 185, 211–12, 219, 280, 308

AMICE 290

Amin, A., and Robins, K. 29, 30; and Smith, I. 302

Amoco, 171, 219n, 253

Amsterdam school 13, 16, 19–21, 22, 38, 117n

Amylum 292n

analysis, macro 8, 9, 16, 194, 196–7, 199, 201, 207–16, 304; meso 8, 9, 34, 63, 222–31, 304; meta 8, 33; micro 8, 34, 156, 201

Anchorage perspective 134, 153

Andersen, E. S. 108; and Lundvall, B. A. 65, 78

Ansoff, H. I. 126

anti-dumping 10, 227–8, 232, 233, 276

anti-Taylorist Revolution 18

anti-trust measures 110–11, 211, 239, 241

Aoki, M. et al. 25

Apple 55

Applix Inc 82n

Archibugi, D. and Michie, J. 148

Argentina 193, 198

Arthur Andersen Consulting 168

ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB) 87n, 94, 152–3, 156, 158, 160, 161, 171, 190, 194, 195, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures and tables
• Preface
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Introduction: Appraising three major debates
• The elusive concept of post-Fordism
• Rival concepts of restructuring
• The dynamism of industrial complexes I Bargaining within the value chain
• The dynamism of industrial complexes II Bargaining outside the value chain
• Rival views of globalisation
• The myth of the ‘global’ corporation
• Rival internationalisation strategies
• Rival trade policy strategies
• The management of international dependencies
• Appendix: The bargaining dynamism of industrial complexes and industrial systems
• Bibliography
• Index