End of the Line The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation

Name: End of the Line The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
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ISBN: 9780767915878

ISBN-10: 0767915879

ISBN-13: 9780767915878

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Authors: Barry C. Lynn

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In September 1999, an earthquake devastated much of Taiwan, toppling buildings, knocking out electricity, and killing 2,500 people. Within days, factories as far away as California and Texas began to close. Cut off from their supplies of semiconductor chips, companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard began to shutter assembly lines and send workers home. A disaster that only a decade earlier would have been mainly local in nature almost cascaded into a grave global crisis. The quake, in an instant, illustrated just how closely connected the world had become and just how radically different are the risks we all now face. End of the Line is the first real anatomy of globalization. It is the…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 8/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Introduction




The Old West: Running from Japan



China and the Global Moment: Clinton's Counterstroke



Our World: America's System in Transition



Thinking in Links: The Logistics Revolution



Assets Backwards: Outsourcing and the Arbitrage Firm



The Great Consolidation: Of Scope & Scale



The Virtual Moment: The Snap-Together World



Warnings Unheeded: Risk vs. Reward



Rent and Rending: Stretched to the Limit?


Conclusion: Our Global Commons: Whose Rules?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index