A Business History of the Swatch Group : The Rebirth of Swiss Watchmaking and the Globalization of the Luxury Industry
ISBN: 9781137389084
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Business/ Management;

This book offers a detailed and full analysis of the strategy which enabled the Swatch Group to establish itself on the world market. In particular, it tackles the issues of production restructuring, with the opening of subsidiaries in Asia, and the implementation of a new marketing strategy, characterized by the move towards luxury.

Pierre-Yves Donzé is Associate Professor and Hakubi scholar at Kyoto University, Japan. He earned his PhD from University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, before embarking upon research projects in Japan and the United States. His research interests include the global luxury goods business and the history of technology transfer.


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