Changing Patterns in International Rivalry: Some Lessons from the Steel Industry: No 17 (The international conferences on business history) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0860084752 ISBN 13: 9780860084754

Publisher: University of Tokyo Press, 1991

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As the saying "iron is the state" signifies, the iron and steel industry has been the key industry in every industrialized country. At the outset of the Industrial Revolution, Britain was the largest producer of iron, but was surpassed by the USA and Germany in the late 19th century. Since the mid-20th century, Japan has been a major producer, second to the USSR. In analyzing why and how supremacy over the industry changed from one country to another, business historians from Britain, the USA, France, Germany, Korea and Japan present case studies in which such factors as technological innovation, resources and markets, constraints placed by labour unions, management's innovative flair, the capital market, and international competitiveness are reviewed.

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• Publisher: University of Tokyo Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860084752
• ISBN 13: 9780860084754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Abe Etsuo, Suzuki Yoshitaka