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.
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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
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BERNARD JULLIEN is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bordeaux’s GRETh A 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.