The Global Factory: An Overview and Introduction
Abstract
This article introduces and explains the concept of the global factory. The global factory encompasses the activities of a global firm, or a global network of firms that organize production, distribution, marketing, design, branding and innovation of a set of products and services. As will be seen, these products and services and their subcomponents, inputs and conception may not be owned by a single firm at any one time but their component activities are controlled by the system described here as a global factory.
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global factory, multinational enterprises, international strategy, foreign direct investment, globalization, international development
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2008-03-31
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Buckley, P. J. (2008). The Global Factory: An Overview and Introduction. Russian Management Journal, 6(1), 135–154. Retrieved from https://rjm.spbu.ru/article/view/468
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