Globalisation of High Technology Production

by Jeffrey Henderson

Overview

This book analyses how high technology production has shifted from a regional to a global scale. Using the example of semi-conductors it illustrates the interaction of the developed industrial and developing industrialising nations. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of international economics and international business, professionals dealing with multinationals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134969531
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/26/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	410 KB

About the Author

Jeffrey Henderson

Table of Contents

Preface 1 A new mode of industrialisation 2 The international division of labour, industrial change and territorial development: Theoretical and methodological issues 3 Semiconductor production: Labour processes, markets, and the determinants of globalisation 4 East Asia: The emergent regional division of labour 5 Hong Kong: The making of a regional core 6 Scotland: The European connection 7 Prospects for globalisation and development 8 Semiconductors, development, and the changing international division of labour