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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Definitions -- Outline -- Notes and References -- 2. THE PIVOTAL GLOBAL PLAYERS -- The International Fundamentals -- Leading Markets -- Locational Leanings -- The International Corporate Stamp -- Summary -- Notes and References -- 3. STRUCTURAL FACTORS -- Product and Industry Life-cycles -- Industrial Life-cycles -- Innovation and Industrial Organisation -- A Model of Industrial Organisation -- Model Specifics -- Integration and Rationalisation Strategies -- Government Intervention -- Mature Electronics Organisations -- Adolescent Electronics Organisations -- Summary -- Notes and References -- 4. DEFENCE ELECTRONICS -- Emergence and Confirmation -- Contemporary Standing -- Incentives for Entry -- Bail-outs and State Acquisition -- State Enterprise and TNC Involvement -- Market Consolidation -- Growth -- Acquisition -- Encroachments by Defence Contractors -- Rationalisation -- Summary -- Notes and References -- 5. INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE -- Innovation: Truisms and Shibboleths -- The Government Backstop -- Incubation Centres -- Summary -- Notes and References -- 6. THE JAPANESE POWERHOUSE -- The Government Prop -- Science-based Research and Production Centres -- Formative Influences -- The Radio and Calculator Stimulus -- Higher Value-added Activities -- Automation and 'Internationalisation' -- Summary -- Notes and References -- 7. THE NIC CHALLENGE -- Institutional Background -- Hong Kong -- Taiwan -- South Korea -- Singapore -- Life-cycles and Offshore Location -- The Labour Factor and Location -- American TNCs -- Japanese TNCs -- European TNCs -- Mexico -- Interlinked Industries -- The State Alternative -- Brazil -- India -- Israel -- China -- Summary

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. SHIPBUILDING: THE GLOBAL SHIFT -- Recent Trends in World Shipbuilding -- Merchant Shipping Perspectives -- Conclusion -- 2. THE CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND TO SHIPBUILDING -- Shipyard Organisation -- Shipbuilding Enterprise -- Economic Milieu -- The Descriptive Model -- 3. SHIP PRICES, COSTS, AND THE SHIPYARD SITE FACTOR -- Variations in Ship Prices -- Shipbuilding Costs -- Shipyard Costs and the Site Factor -- 4. THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE -- Firms and Technological Change -- Technological Change in Perspective -- Conditions Promoting Innovativeness -- Technology Transfer -- The Evolution of the Modern Shipyard -- Standard Ships -- The Marine Engineering Dimension -- Conclusion -- 5. DEMAND AND SHIP CYCLES -- Merchant Ship Cycles -- Naval Ship Cycle -- The Regional Dimension -- Policy Implications of Ship Cycles -- 6. INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION -- Evolution of Industrial Organisations -- Specialisation -- Diversification Within Shipbuilding -- Diversification Outside of Shipbuilding -- State Enterprises -- Conclusion -- 7. THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION -- Naval Shipbuilding -- State Subsidies -- Shipbuilding and National Development -- Shipbuilding and the Command Economies -- 8. CONCLUSION -- Whither Shipbuilding? -- References -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. OVERVIEW OF THE INDUSTRY -- Global Distribution -- The Advanced-Industrial Countries -- The Communist Bloc -- The Newly-Industrialising Countries -- Summary -- Notes and References -- 2. EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION -- Evolutionary Highlights -- Market Evolution -- The Wave-Cycle Model -- The Evolution of Enterprises -- Vickers as a Case Study -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- 3. MARKETS FOR CIVIL AIRCRAFT -- Commercial Aviation -- Impact on Commercial Aircraft Manufacturers -- Commercial Aviation Markets and State Influence -- General Aviation -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- 4. MARKETS FOR MILITARY AIRCRAFT -- Military Aircraft Types -- The Demand for Military Aircraft -- The Suppliers -- The Defence Market: The Military-Industrial Complex -- Structure -- Defence Contracting -- The Kurth Follow-On Imperative: The Strategic-Political Interface -- Notes and References -- 5. SUPPLY FACTORS AND INDUSTRIAL LOCATION -- Industrial characteristics -- Materials -- Components and Parts -- Labour -- Entrepreneurship -- Locational Implications -- Strategic Relocations -- Regional policy -- Northern Ireland -- British Columbia -- Belgian Flanders -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- 6. TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION -- A structural Contingency Framework -- The Phillips Eclectic Model -- The Evidence -- Technology Transfer -- Co-Production -- Licence-Production -- Subsidiary Operations -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- 7. THE STATE AND THE AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY -- The Infant Industry Case -- Infant Industries in NICs -- Protected Markets -- Permanent Receivership -- Nationalisation -- Government-Induced International Co-operation -- Concorde -- Airbus -- Tornado -- Conclusion.

The central theme running through this book is the mutual dependence of navies and shipbuilding industries. Historically, naval ambitions and the ambitions of industrialists converge, and a symbiosis is born. The technical competence of industry emerges as a key player in determining the effectiveness of navies. That industrial capability, for its part, rests increasingly on the navy as chief customer because progressive specialization renders it more and more unsuited for any other use. These trends are universal, afflicting the relations of all major navies and their industrial suppliers sin