Industries and Globalization

Through analyzing recent change within six industries this book develops a resolutely interdisciplinary approach to studying globalization. By combining questions and methodologies from institutionalist economics and political science, it proposes a generalizable model for studying the politics of industry. It then tests a causal hypothesis.

Autorentext
BERNARD JULLIEN is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bordeaux's GREThA Research Centre, France, and Director of the GERPISA network of research on the car industry. His publications include a chapter in Gabriel Colletis and Yannick Lung, La France industrielle en question.

ANDY SMITH is Director of Research at Sciences-Po Bordeaux's SPIRIT Research Centre, France. His current work on industry is centred upon wine's politics, the subject of a recent book (with J. de Maillard and O. Costa) Vin et politique: Bordeaux, la France et la mondialisation.

Inhalt
Introduction: Industries, Globalization and Politics; B.Jullien & A.Smith European Automobile Distribution: Globalization and Incomplete Liberalization; B.Jullien Globalization within the French Wine Industry: Commercial Challenges but Producer Domination; A.Smith Shareholder Value, Political Work and Globalization in the Pharmaceutical Industry; M.Montalban The US Defence Industry since 1945: Globalization Refused; S.Moura Globalization, Scottish Fisheries and Political Work: Global-EU-Local Dialectics; C.Carter The Transformation of the Foie Gras Industry: Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights and Domination; B.Jullien & A.Smith Conclusion: The Politics of Industry and Globalization; B.Jullien & A.Smith