After nearly a decade of subpar performance, US electronics firms experienced a resurgence in the early 1990's. How can we explain this resurgence? First, by looking to the decline of Japanese firms and increased competition within Asia, and second by looking to the US' firms increased reliance on international produciton networks to cut costs.

A study of the potential results of agricultural and food processing integration between Eastern and Western Europe

As Korean electronics firms began to meet increased competition from Japanese and other Asian firms, they successfully turned to offshoring their production networks to lower costs. This paper tracks the experience of Samsung, a major industrial conglomerate.

Automobile manufacturers were among the first firms to enter Eastern and Central Europe following the end of the cold war.  Now the production networks are distributed across Eastern and Western Europe and the former soviet economies are integrating at different speeds.