Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and Its Globalization

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Herrigel, Gary ^a   Zeitlin, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global manufacturing; Globalization; Inter firm relations; Mechanical engineering; Motor vehicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923561215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199233762.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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