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050 4 _aHD9773.A2
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082 0 _a684.08068
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100 1 _aWalcott, Susan M.,
_d1949-
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA profile of the furniture manufacturing industry :
_bglobal restructuring /
_cSusan M. Walcott.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :
_bBusiness Expert Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (84 pages)
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aIndustry profiles collection
500 _aPart of: 2013 digital library.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 79-80) and index.
505 0 _aList of figures -- List of tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structure of the furniture industry -- 3. How the industry operates -- 4. Industry organization and competition -- 5. Market forces inside and outside the industry -- 6. Regulation of the furniture industry, domestic and global -- 7. Challenges and opportunities for the furniture industry -- Notes -- References -- Index.
506 _aAccess restricted to authorized users and institutions.
520 3 _aThe furniture industry (NAICS 337) plays an important role in the U.S. economy as a bellwether for manufacturing through its utilization of a global production network. Types of furniture range from household to institutional, with particular growth in firms supplying medical and government-related commodities. The industry is highly responsive to fashion trends, but is partitioned into high, medium, and low cost segments that reveal different locational and market responses to changes. Recent developments indicate that the post-1980s migration of furniture manufacturing to offshore, low labor cost countries has stabilized and shows some faint signs of reshoring in the United States for high end customized and technologically intensive products utilizing the remaining embedded skilled labor and locally clustered industry components. Businesses that survived the recessionary "creative destruction" largely adopted lean manufacturing processes and took advantage of available lower cost equipment and buildings to upgrade their production practices, absorbing market from former competitors. New partnerships occurred with branch and headquarter relocations in Asia, along with cooperative supplier relationships with former U.S. and new foreign companies. Industry survivors adopted practices that could be highly instructive for other manufacturers challenged by globalization to grow stronger by increasing their adaptive capacity. An overview of the industry and its global production network includes the manufacturing technologies of each sector.
588 _aTitle from PDF title page (viewed on December 16, 2013).
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aFurniture industry and trade.
653 _ahemispherization
653 _areshoring
653 _aadaptive capacity
653 _atextiles
653 _acreative destruction
653 _aupholstered furniture
653 _awood furniture/case goods
653 _avalue and supply chain
653 _aglobal production network
653 _aspatial fix
653 _alean manufacturing
653 _aglobal trade
653 _acompetitive strategies
653 _aFurniture
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781606496565
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _a2013 digital library.
830 0 _aIndustry profiles collection.
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1562609
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