IT and the Changing Social Division of Labor: The Case of Electronics Contract Manufacturing[1]GLOBAL PRODUCTION AND THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOR IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET Boy Lüthje Institute of Social Research University of Frankfurt Senckenberganlage 26 D-60325 Frankfurt/M Germany Telephone: 069/756183-30, -43 Fax: 069/747709 E-Mail: luethje@soz.uni-frankfurt.de Draft paper for conference Transforming Enterprise Department of Commerce Auditorium Washington, D.C., January
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Week 3 Assignment 1 Professor Wade Ferguson July 17, 2011 Discuss the current supply chain system at DIMCO. Dimco uses an strategic, operational and tactical supply chain in which they have daily production and distribution planning, including all nodes in the supply chain. Production scheduling for each manufacturing facility in the supply chain (minute by minute). Demand planning and forecasting, coordinating the demand forecast of all customers and sharing the forecast with all suppliers
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From Followers to Market Leaders: Asian Electronics Firms in the Global Economy Henry Wai-chung Yeung Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 (Tel: 65-6516 6810; Fax: 65-6777 3091; Email: HenryYeung@nus.edu.sg; Homepage: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm) Forthcoming in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.48(1), pp.1-30, 2007. Acknowledgement An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Asia Pacific Viewpoint Lecture at the International
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huge concurrence of global markets. Each organization either small or big has to stick to a kind of structure and strategy within its operations to make projects successful. During the last decades, companies moved from Logistics Management in 1986 to Supply Chain Management. Today’s Supply Chain Management also includes production and distribution by creating a chain of information from suppliers to costumers through the company. Since the customers’ expectations and global markets’ demand are getting
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Electronics Contract Manufacturing: Global Production and the International Division of Labor in the Age of the Internet Boy Lüthje Institute of Social Research Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Senckenberganlage 26 60325 Frankfurt Germany E-mail: luethje@soz.uni-frankfurt.de Submitted for publication to Industry and Innovation – special issue on “Global Production Networks, Information Technology and Local Capabilities”, coordinated by Linsu Kim and Dieter Ernst Comments welcome, please
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1 1. Introduction 2. Definition of Network Organisations 3. Reasons For Networks a. Advantages 4. Three Types of Networks 5. Three Types of Managers 6. Examples of Networks a. Dell b. GM c. BMW 7. The Future of Networks a. Cisco Telepresence 8. John’s Personal Experience 9. Conclusion 2 By Team Four – Informal Definition By Miles, Snow & Coleman, “Managing 21st Century Network Organisations” – Formal Definition 3 “…multilevel hierarchies have given way to clusters of business units
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from self-contained national economies toward an interdependent, integrated global economic system * Globalization refers to the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy What Is The Globalization of Markets? * Historically distinct and separate national markets are merging * It no longer makes sense to talk about the “German market” or the “American market” * Instead, there is the “global market” * falling trade barriers make it easier to sell globally
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Geography (2005) Page 1 of 30 doi:10.1093/jeg/lbi001 Video games production networks: value capture, power relations and embeddedness Jennifer Johns* Abstract This paper has two main aims. Firstly to conceptualize the production networks of the video games industry through an examination of its evolution into a multi-million dollar industry. Secondly, to use the video games industry to demonstrate the utility of Global Production Network approaches to understanding the geographically uneven impacts
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considerations. The factors include the knowledge on the market, the availability of resources, the strategies to be used and the market environment. Before a company takes on an international assignment it should plan first. Planning will help the organization not to make mistakes in its initiative. Despite the many motives of companies to internationalize and the advantages involved, there are obstacles that the company must overcome for successful internationalization this paper analyzes the internationalization
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for several years now that the phenomenon of ‘global production sharing’ through global value chains (GVCs), around which a substantial literature exists, has helped developing countries expand export-oriented manufacturing activity. GVCs represent the significant unit of organization of international production, wherein ‘lead firms’, largely multinational corporations (MNCs), coordinate production across international borders through extensive networks of suppliers spread across large numbers of countries
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