Industrial Leadership and the Long-Lasting Competitiveness of the Swiss Watch Industry

Pierre-Yves Donzé ()
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Pierre-Yves Donzé: Osaka University

A chapter in Historians on Leadership and Strategy, 2020, pp 171-191 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Despite the Swiss watch industry has been challenged several times by US and Japanese companies during the last two centuries, it showed a strong resilience. Switzerland is still today the uncontested world’s largest watchmaking nation. This chapter explores the role played by few entrepreneurs that express a strong industrial leadership, that is, a leadership which went beyond the boundaries of their own firms and contributed to strengthen the competitiveness of the Swiss watch industry as a whole. Since the late nineteenth century, Ernest Francillon, Sydney de Coulon, Nicolas G. Hayek and Jean-Claude Biver have established successively themselves as the leaders of the Swiss watch industry.

Keywords: Watch industry; Switzerland; Global watch; Industry competitiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26090-3_10

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