This text addresses the evolving corporate restructuring race between industrial complexes. The authors consider current debates on post-Fordism, globalization and lean production, identifying a number of rival internationalization strategies that have been adopted by different companies. Moreover, they present historical data on the world's 100 largest core companies. They demonstrate that none of the largest core firms are truly global, and that virtually all of them have benefited decisively from governmental trade or industrial policies. This is an interdisciplinary project which links...

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...