Research Catalog

Title

European integration and competiveness : acquisitions and alliances in industry / Frédérique Sachwald, editor.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : E. Elgar, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Sachwald, Frédérique.

Description

ix, 338 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• European firms have used external growth operations to improve competitiveness in preparation both for the European single market and increasing economic globalization.
• European Integration and Competitiveness uses original data to examine mergers, acquisitions and cooperative alliances between firms in the period from 1980 to 1992. A comparison of the evolution of external growth operations within the European Community, and between EC and non-EC firms, is followed by a series of sectoral chapters which examine the role of external growth operations in the strategies of firms.
• The rationale of the single market, with lower barriers of entry within the EC and economies of scale, is shown to be insufficient to improve competitiveness, firstly because firms' strategies have to answer the globalization trends and secondly because external growth operations may have widened the gap between the competitiveness of firms and the competitiveness of nations.
• This unique and important book compares mergers, acquisitions and alliances, to show why a firm may prefer one type of operation to another. It will be welcomed by economists and students in the fields of industrial economics, international economics and European studies, as well as by public and business policy makers.

Series Statement

New horizons in international business

Uniform Title

New horizons in international business.

Subject

• International business enterprises > Europe > Case studies
• Vertical integration > Europe > Case studies
• Competition, International > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Frederique Sachwald -- 1. European Competitiveness, the Single Market and Globalization / Frederique Sachwald -- 2. Competitiveness and Competition: which Theory of the Firm? / Frederique Sachwald -- 3. The Automobile Industry / Frederique Sachwald -- 4. The Autocomponent Industry / Etienne de Banville and Jean-Jacques Chanaron -- 5. The Semiconductor Industry / Mike Hobday -- 6. The Consumer Electronic Industry / Martin Bloom -- 7. The Chemical Industry / Frederique Sachwald -- 8. The Pharmaceutical Industry / Peter de Wolf -- Conclusion: Integration and Globalization / Frederique Sachwald -- General Appendix: Market Position Indicator / Isabelle Joinovici.

ISBN

1852789654

LCCN

93034133

OCLC

ocm28799467

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries