The Global Business Revolution and the Cascade Effect :
[Book]
Systems Integration in the Aerospace, Beverages and Retail Industries
by Peter Nolan, Jin Zhang, Chunhang Liu.
Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2007
(XI, 185 pages)
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Debate; 2 The Global Business Revolution, Systems Integration and the Cascade Effect; 3 The Aerospace Industry; 4 The Beverage Industry; 5 The Retail Industry; 6 Implications for Firm-level Catch-Up in Developing Countries; Bibliography; Notes; Index.
Using empirical data from the supply chain of aerospace, beverages and retail this text develops an original framework, the 'cascade effect', to explain changes in industrial concentration. This provides an original insight into the determinants of industrial structure and has vital implications for firms and policy-makers in developing countries.