: Michael McKeldon Woody
: American Dragon: Winning the Global Manufacturing War Using the Universal Principles of Fewer, Faster, and Finer
: Lulu Publishing Services
: 9781483445755
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: CHF 12.30
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: Sozialwissenschaften allgemein
: English
During the last two decades of the twentieth century, China built a manufacturing juggernaut that propelled the offshoring phenomenon and led to the loss of millions of US manufacturing jobs. Michael McKeldon Woody, formerly an executive at a domestic pen manufacturer, learned the hard way that these competitors were relentless, and eventually acquiesced to the inevitability of offshoring. But in 2006 he stumbled upon a US textile business, Trans-Tex LLC, which gave him the opportunity to pursue a rematch with his old nemesis, China. This time, the outcome was different.