stanford university press nov 2003 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations This volume explores how specific industries have organized their global operations through case studies of seven manufacturing industries: garments and textiles, automobiles and auto parts, televisions, hard disk drives, flat panel displays, semiconductors, and personal computers. Based on long-term research sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, the chapters provide readers with 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. The book examines globalization within the context of five factors affecting locational decisions: advances in transportation and communication; the clustering of knowledge assets; the drive to reduce cycle times; the commodification of existing products; and the relative advantages of proximity to customers. The case studies are framed by Paul Deguid's Preface on the significance of power in value chains and Bruce Kogut's conclusion on the importance of knowledge in locational decisions. Together, the chapters reveal a remarkable diversity of responses across industries to these forces, and suggest that any understanding of globalization must appreciate this diversity. This volume is ideal for both MBA and undergraduate students studying the location of economic activities by multinational firms.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some clichés about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ('faith and reason,' or 'idealism and materialism'). The use of the Buddhist notion of the Two Truths as a hermeneutic device leads to a double or multiple exposure that will call into question our mental habits and force us to ask questions differently, to think 'in a new key.'>.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This outstanding work is strikingly original, covering a new, important topic through exhaustive research in a wide variety of archives in Mexico and Spain. Vinson's ability to weave together his significant findings from archival research with commentary on other scholarship is praiseworthy and not commonly achieved.' - John E. Kicza, Washington State University'Complementing Lyle N. McAlister's The 'Fuero Militar' in New Spain, 1764-1800 and Christon I. Archer's The Army in Bourbon Mexico, 1760-1810, this volume by Vinson focuses on the participants in the free-colored militia of colonial Mexico. He draws his thorough analysis primarily from exhaustive investigations in Mexican national and regional archives. . . . Detailed tables and appendixes support his quantitative analysis. Upper-division undergraduates and above.'--Choice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan relationship: much of what had once been a bilateral and relatively exclusive relationship has been transformed in the past two decades. The authors present eleven case studies of important domains--ranging from increased flows of private capital to international security concerns to the growing importance of multilateral organizations--in which the relationship has been altered to a greater or lesser degree. >.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '[A] challenging but endlessly and unpredictably rewarding book.'--The Times Literary Supplement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish and the other Slavic, which found refuge in Shanghai during the period 1900-1950. Victims of discrimination and persecution in their own lands--Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine--they chose Shanghai as their destination because no documentation was required to enter the city and settle there. In their struggle to survive and build a life in this Chinese open port, they encountered severe political, social, economic, and cultural challenges.The Jewish diaspora community began forming in the early 1900s and increased to more than 18,000 after the initial triumphs of Nazism. The Slavic community eventually numbered about 30,000 people, escaping revolution and persecution from Bolshevik and fascist forces at home and in north China. This book focuses on how these diverse groups, adhering to various religious and cultural traditions, formed communities, preserved their national and cultural identities, chose their leaders, found gainful employment, coped with the alien Chinese culture, educated and raised their children, and established a considerable presence in this large, cosmopolitan city.The author examines at length the different experiences and responses of the two diaspora groups during World War II under the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. With the Chinese Communist takeover of the city in 1949, both groups found themselves in a renewed struggle to find a home, adding still another chapter to the saga of their diaspora experiences. The book concludes with an account of how the two groups handled this new challenge and where they finally found refuge. Apart from the particulars of the Shanghai experience, the story of the two communities clearly resonates with today's accounts of societies in conflict, dislocated populations, and varied struggles to survive and sustain life under trying conditions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Territories of Profit is a welcome addition to the literature on learning, innovation and regional development.'--Regional Studies'In this interesting and thoughtful book, Gary Fields pursues the analogy with exceptional sophistication and rigor.'--The Journal of Economic History.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Cadillac story is more than the story of a car company. It is, in many ways, the story of the American automobile industry itself-- which, as much as any industry, drove America's growth in the twentieth century and defined who we are as a people: mobile and prosperous. Cadillac, again and again, played a critical role in that story, for both good and ill. >.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a very readable, pratical, and enjoyable book about the only American automobile named after a president.'--Choice'Author Thomas Bonsall regales readers to far more than facts; his unique style of research brings us a superbly mesmerizing tale that deserves a place on your book shelf. Bonsall keeps readers on the edge of their seats as he chauffeurs them through an astonishing half-century and more of the Lincoln legend. This automotive historian has an uncanny knack for interviewing folks who helped to make history firsthand, and that inside scoop is guaranteed to delight Lincoln lovers.'--Old Cars.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this pathbreaking book, Xiaoyuan Liu establishes the ways in which the history of the Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan'an period onward, intertwined with the ethnopolitics of the Chinese 'periphery.' As a Han-dominated party, the CCP had to adapt to an inhospitable political environment, particularly among the Hui (Muslims) of northwest China and the Mongols of Inner Mongolia. Based on a careful examination of CCP and Soviet Comintern documents only recently available, Liu's study shows why the CCP found itself unable to follow the Russian Bolshevik precedent by inciting separatism among the non-Han peoples as a stratagem for gaining national power. Rather than swallowing Marxist-Leninist dogma on 'the nationalities question,' the CCP took a position closer to that of the Kuomintang, stressing the inclusiveness of the Han-dominated Chinese nation, 'Zhongua Minzu.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Koeneke has produced a very detailed and informative account of Basic English in China.the story of Richards and Basic English in China is fascinating and it is worth reading the book just for that.'--Asian Studies Review'Telling the fascinating and somewhat improbable tale of I. A. Richards's efforts to persuade the Chinese to adopt Basic English, Rodney Koeneke has given us a magnificent book, written with the insight of a poet and the documentation of a historian. ' --Peter Stansky, Stanford University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '.students and scholars will find many observations and alayses both interesting and challenging, yet the neophyte too will find this a good starting place for further pursuits of their own special interests. Simply put, this book is among the most informative available.'--Choice'Performing the Visual is a fascinating study of the artistic process involved in the conception and rendering of wall paintings in the Mogao and Yulin Grottos at Dunhuang, Gansu province, one of China's most important groups of Buddhist cave temples.'--Canadian Journal of History.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'These essays, penned in an accessible style, provide one of the best starting points for an engagement with the arguments of one of the most revered and reviled utilitarian theorists.'--The Law and Politics Book Review.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Stephanie Sandler's long-awaited book, Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet, offers us a thorough and erudite look at the Pushkin phenomenon in Russia.Her comments and discussions are at all times perceptive and immensely well-informed, and her readings are nuanced and imaginative.'--Slavic and East European Journal'This book will be of interest to a wide range of Russian cultural scholars, offering both a valuable introduction to the subject of Pushkin's legacy and also detailed insights in specific areas, particularly with regard to visual culture.'--Modern Language Review.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book highlights obedience as an American cultural motif by examining the ways in which citizens understand and dramatize the struggle between autonomy and allegiance. Willing Obedience tells the story of Americans who worked out the simultaneous demands of liberty and obedience in fiction, military memoir, and political writing from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. In contrast to the European model of a subject's blind obedience to a monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book provides one of the most detailed explanations of U.S.-Japan relations and clearly presents a new way of understanding U.S.-Japan trade and security relations. The contributors to this volume have done a first-rate job in accounting for the myriads of issues that dominate the geopolitics of U.S.-Japan relations.'--Asian Affairs'Written at a highly intelligent level, this volume is, overall, one of the most solid and thorough studies of US-Japan relations in the new context in east Asia, with specific policy suggestions for the US.'--Choice.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '[A] challenging but endlessly and unpredictably rewarding book.'--The Times Literary Supplement.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '[Shao's] book is the most complete and best history of Zhang Jian and Nantong available.'--The China Review'Shao's book is based on a wealth of archival and interview sources, and provides a thoughtful reassessment of how 'modernity' was experienced in China outside the big cities.'--Pacific Affairs.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations This volume explores how specific industries have organized their global operations through case studies of seven manufacturing industries: garments and textiles, automobiles and auto parts, televisions, hard disk drives, flat panel displays, semiconductors, and personal computers. Based on long-term research sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, the chapters provide readers with 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. The book examines globalization within the context of five factors affecting locational decisions: advances in transportation and communication; the clustering of knowledge assets; the drive to reduce cycle times; the commodification of existing products; and the relative advantages of proximity to customers. The case studies are framed by Paul Deguid's Preface on the significance of power in value chains and Bruce Kogut's conclusion on the importance of knowledge in locational decisions. Together, the chapters reveal a remarkable diversity of responses across industries to these forces, and suggest that any understanding of globalization must appreciate this diversity. This volume is ideal for both MBA and undergraduate students studying the location of economic activities by multinational firms.