Author: R. James Breiding Publisher: Profile Books ISBN: 1847658091 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 764
Book Description
Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons others can learn and benefit from? Can the Swiss continue to perform in a hyper-competitive global economy? Swiss Made offers answers to these and many other questions about the country as it describes the origins, structures and characteristics of the most important Swiss companies. The authors suggest success is due to a large degree to sound entrepreneurial thinking and an openness to new ideas. And they venture a surprising forecast on the country's ability to keep pace in an age of globalisation.
Author: Steven Spier Publisher: ISBN: 9780500287798 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Swiss Made, now available in paperback, features work by twelve of the most celebrated Swiss architects and the most internationally influential figures in contemporary architecture. An essay by Steven Spier presents an overview of Swiss architecture and considers the cultural attitudes that have fostered such refined buildings, while Martin Tschanz assesses the Swiss tradition of integrating design, local building techniques and engineering that is unlike anywhere else in the world. The work of each architect is shown via a profile and three to six projects, documented through plans, drawings and photogaphs specially commissioned by renowned photographer Christian Richters.
Author: Luc Haldimann Publisher: buch & netz ISBN: 303805075X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
«swiss made software – the book» puts a spotlight on Switzerland as a location for IT development using facts, figures and case studies. Interviews with some of Switzerland’s leading entrepreneurs round out the picture. Topics are IT in the financial sector, security and its challenges, new ideas in collaboration as well as IT in the area industrial/embedded. Additionally a wide variety of innovative ideas are portrayed.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Publisher: ISBN: Category : Clock and watch making Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
Investigates allegations of Treasury Dept failure to enforce Swiss watch import tariffs.
Author: Pierre-Yves Donzé Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN: 9783034316453 Category : Clock and watch making Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book tackles the history of the Swiss watch industry in a global perspective: it gives particular attention to rival nations such as the United Kingdom, the USA and Japan. The author demonstrates how Swiss watchmakers succeeded in facing various challenges: the industrialization of production at the end of the 19th century, the delocalization of production in the interwar years and globalization since the 1960's. These challenges helped Switzerland to maintain and strengthen its position as a leader on the world market. This study shows how innovation and new technologies, the industrial policy of the Swiss authorities, the industrial district organization and the relations with trade unions explain the worldwide success of the Swiss watch industry.
Author: Gisbert L. Brunner Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited ISBN: 9780887403019 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
An overview of Swiss wristwatch designs in the 20th century with nearly 650 photo illustrations. The many forms and styles of casings, dials, and hands are covered, along with manufacturers' literature, advertising, and catalogs. The firms of Omega, Longines, Tavannes-Cyma, Breitling, Doxa, Universal, Movado, and Zenith are represented, and a price guide makes it a valuable reference for collectors of wristwatches.
Author: Bram Bouwens Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317190645 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 218
Book Description
Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have remained competitive even without relocating their operations overseas. Industries and Global Competition examines how and why the specificities of certain industries and firms determined their choice of location and competitiveness. This volume identifies the major drivers of this process and explains why some firms and industries moved to other parts of world while others did not. Relocation was not the sole determinant of the success or failure of firms and industries. Indeed some were able to reinvent themselves at their original location and build new competitive advantages. The path that each industry or firm took varied. This book argues that the specific characteristics of each industry defined the conditions of competitiveness and provide a wide range of cases as illustrations. Aimed at scholars, researchers and acadmeics in the fields of business history, international business and related disciplines Industries and Global Competition exmaines the unique questions; How and why did the specificities of certain industries and firms determine their choice of location and competitiveness? Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author: R. James Breiding
Author: Steven Spier
Author: Luc Haldimann
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations
Author: Pierre-Yves Donzé
Author: Gisbert L. Brunner
Author: Eugène Jaquet
Author: Bram Bouwens
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