'Burden on being first. The foundations of watchmaking and time keeping technology and Britain's ascent and decline as the dominant watch manufacturing region' in A K Glasmeier, Manufacturing Time. Global competition in the watch industry, 1795-2000
Details:
- Author(s) Glasmeier, Amy K
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages pp64-87
- Publisher Guilford Press
- Place Published New York NY
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
- Name Comparative international studies
Countries:
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- United States
- Switzerland
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Deals with rise and fall of watchmaking in Britain within an international study that seeks to understand why watchmaking thrived in some regions and failed in others. In particular considers the industry in Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan and USA