Winner of the American Political Science Association's 2008 Don K. Price Award for the Best Book in Science and Technology Politics Finalist for the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Political Science category. The 1990s brought surprising industrial development in emerging economies around the globe: firms in countries not previously known for their high-technology industries moved to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT) by using different business models and carving out unique positions in the global IT production networks. In this book Dan Breznitz asks why...