From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry

by Stephan Haggard, Richard Doner, David McKendrick

Book Overview

Momentous developments in the global economy over the last two decades have dramatically increased the availability of industrial investment sites and lowered the cost of relocating core activities to new countries. But how should these developments be exploited for competitive advantage? Firms face competing pressures: scale economies and the advantages of proximity push them to concentrate activities in one or only a few locations, while low...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741832
• ISBN13: 9780804741835
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"