This book provides an overview of evolving patterns of trade partnership with historical perspective. It presents changing requirements of industry competitiveness and explains the vital relationships between trade partnerships and industry competitiveness. As well, it further examines the interactive relationships between trade partnerships and industry competitiveness. In recent years, with decreasing strategic alliances among nations and less visibility of international governance mechanisms (e.g., WTO) and counter to globalization, preferential trade agreements and free-trade agreements have proliferated among nations. At the same time, industrial competitiveness is becoming a serious strategic policy priority of nations-both advanced and emerging economies. Theoretical discussion focuses on the practices of global network capabilities for the top of the pyramid (ToP) and base of the pyramid (BoP). Special focus is on trade partnerships and industry competitivenessin the Asian economies (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia), three ASEAN nations (Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia), and Mexico. Extensive industry and firm-level case studies discuss ToP and BoP interface capabilities in the form of manufacturing and services life-cycle management, which extends value creation and delivery of manufacturing and services. This extension integrates the cloud ecosystem, such as timely data/information/knowledge flows via the virtual world; and ground value chains, such as the flow of complex real goods and services in the visible world.

Autorentext
Paul Hong, University of Toledo
Young Won Park, Saitama University

Inhalt
-Section 1: Trade Partnerships and Industry Competitiveness-Chapter 1: Evolving Patterns of Trade Partnerships: An Overview-Chapter 2: Changing Requirements of Industry Competitiveness-Chapter 3: Trade Parternships and Industry Competitiveness-Section 2: ToP and BoP Interface Capabilities (TBIC): Cases for Competitiveness -Chapter 4: TBIC: Extension of Theory of Network Capabilities-Chapter 5: Local Autonomy and Global Coordination: Case of Japanese Firms in -Chapter 6: Changing Global Middle Class Dynamics: Case of Asian Automotive Firms-Chapter 7: Japanese and Korean Firms in USA and Mexico-Section 3: ToP and BoP Interface Capabilities (TBIC): Cases of Enabling Partnership Linkages -Chapter 8: Review of Enabling Linkages: Trade Partnerships, Global Logistics and IoT-Chapter 9: FTAs and Global Supply Chain Management(GSCM): Case of Korean Firms -Chapter 10: Global Logistics and National Competitiveness: Case of China, Japan and Korea-Chapter 11: Supply chain integration across national borders: Case in China -Chapter 12: TBIC (ToP and BoP Interfaces Capabilities): Future Prospect