Industrial Development, Technology Transfer, and Global Competition - A History of the Japanese Watch Industry Since 1850

List of contents

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I The birth of an industry (1850–1945)
1 The emergence and the growth of a market
2 The first steps towards industrialization (1880–1914)
3 Technological challenges (1900–1937)
4 The evolution of markets (1900–1937)
5 The main manufacturers
6 The experience of war
PART II The conquest of the world (1945–1985)
7 Technological challenges
8 The evolution of markets
9 Organization and management of the largest watch companies
PART III The Japanese watch industry since 1985
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Pierre‐Yves Donzé is Associate Professor in business history at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University. His publications include History of the Swiss Watch Industry from Jacques David to Nicolas Hayek (2011) and articles in Business History, Social History of Medicine, Enterprise & Society and Business History Review.

Summary

Drawing on sources from Japanese, Swiss, and American archives, this book tackles a wide range of actors and sheds light on the various processes that enabled Japanese watch companies to transfer technology and expand commercially starting in the second half of the 19th century.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre-Yves Donze, Pierre-Yves (Osaka University Donze, Donze Pierre-Yves
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367350314
• ISBN: 978-0-367-35031-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Japan, Business & Economics / General, Economics, Business and Management, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Other manufacturing technologies, Manufacturing industries, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Clocks, Chronometers & Watches (Horology), Industrialisation and industrial history