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Global Production and Global Consumption: Designing Organisations and Networks for the Next Century
Author(s) -
Little Stephen
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8691.00114
Subject(s) - globalization , consumption (sociology) , production (economics) , industrial organization , business , maturity (psychological) , emerging markets , product (mathematics) , distribution (mathematics) , service (business) , globe , economics , economic geography , commerce , marketing , market economy , mathematical analysis , social science , developmental psychology , geometry , mathematics , finance , sociology , ophthalmology , macroeconomics , medicine , psychology
Globalisation has increased the significance of intellectual capital leveraged by the information and communication technologies on which it depends. Ultimately global production, distribution and consumption forces a shift in focus towards the end of the production chain where product differentiation and customer support can be used to maintain demand for goods and services. However, development is not uniform, specific markets and specific technologies are at different points in the cycle of growth, maturity and decline, rapid growth at favoured locations also creates regional imbalances within regions and nation states. The organisations and alliances which comprise the global production system must deliver continuous innovation at the cutting edge while ensuring effective diffusion of more mature technologies. Often available infrastructure and skills cannot support full integration into the global economy. While such problems may be most marked within the rapidly development in countries such as China, they exist to some extent in all economies. The stresses inherent in this emerging global system of have been highlighted by the current difficulties of the East Asian economies. The tight coupling of the system propagates the diverse problems of these individual nation states across the globe. This paper argues that globalisation undermines the separation of manufacturing and service activities and the distinction between products and services and examines the emergence of strategies and alliances across regional and organisational boundaries with a model derived from design management.