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

In: Historians on Leadership and Strategy

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  • Pierre-Yves Donzé

    (Osaka University)

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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.

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  • Pierre-Yves Donzé, 2020. "Industrial Leadership and the Long-Lasting Competitiveness of the Swiss Watch Industry," Springer Books, in: Martin Gutmann (ed.), Historians on Leadership and Strategy, pages 171-191, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-26090-3_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26090-3_10
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