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OverviewSteel is the mainstay of the world’s major industries. Worldsteel production has grown dramatically as countries industrialize andadd their own steel-producing capacity. China’s prodigiousexpansion of steel output increases the industry’s naturalvulnerability to oversupply and volatile prices. Big Steel explores how the integrated steel industry isadapting to trade and international competition. These arise from theindustry’s diffusion beyond its historical core in North Americaand Europe. To show how this occurred, Big Steel applies PaulKrugman’s Nobel-Prize-winning explanation of industrial locationand trade. The industry’s technology and economic structure, andthe pricing strategies available, produce fateful competition andincentives to consolidate internationally. Examining theindustry’s survival options, including close co-operation withits primary customers, the automakers, this book anticipates acosmopolitan future. It is a straightforward account of a complicatedprocess, and the development of a new phase in the global steelbusiness. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel MadarPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780774816656ISBN 10: 0774816651 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 15 April 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Professional & Vocational , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsBig Steel explores an industry that has been in near continual transformation for a generation or more and captures the shape and structure of these changes. Perhaps even more significantly, it makes the case that developments in the new millennium denote a new phase in the global steel business, which portends even more dramatic changes of behaviour and performance... It will make a substantial contribution to scholarship. - Peter Clancy, author of Micro-Politics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel and the Airlines """Big Steel explores an industry that has been in near continual transformation for a generation or more and captures the shape and structure of these changes. Perhaps even more significantly, it makes the case that developments in the new millennium denote a new phase in the global steel business, which portends even more dramatic changes of behaviour and performance... It will make a substantial contribution to scholarship. - Peter Clancy, author of Micro-Politics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel and the Airlines""" Author InformationDaniel Madar is a professor of political science atBrock University and author of Heavy Traffic: Deregulation, Trade,and Transformation in North American Trucking. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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