Article ID: CBB750657887

The Decline and Resurrection of Industries: The Example of the Consumer Goods Industry in Germany (2020)

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This article discusses the impact of the structural change of the 1970s on companies in the German consumer goods sector. On the basis of an interdisciplinary comparative study, successful and failed strategies with which contemporaries in the consumer electronics and watchmaking industries tried to overcome what was perceived as a crisis are analysed. The article places special focus on investigating the role of innovations in coping with structural change. For this purpose, an innovation-historical approach is followed, making particular use of the concepts of innovation systems and innovation cultures. In addition, the text also looks at the astonishing phenomenon that, after German reunification, companies in the watchmaking industry successfully returned to supposedly obsolete products in the 1990s that had previously put them at a competitive disadvantage.

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Authors & Contributors
Stoff, Heiko
Heiner Kilian
Grijs, Richard de
Gerhard Dohrn-Van Rossum
Finn Arne Jørgensen
Sabine Effosse
Concepts
Consumers and consumerism
Technological innovation
Technology
Toys
Food preservation
Technology and culture
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Premodern
Places
Germany
West Germany
Scotland
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
France
Europe
Institutions
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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