| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-442) and index. |
| Summary |
Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports. |
| Contents |
The dusty road to Dalian -- The tipoff -- The original outsourcer -- The town the Daddy Rabbits built -- Hilltop hierarchy -- The cousin company -- Company man -- Lineage and love -- Navigating the new landscape -- Sweet Ole Bob (SOB) -- The Mount Airy ploy -- The family elbow -- Schooling the Chinese -- Bird-doggin' the backwaters -- Selling the masses -- The storm before the tsunami -- Trouble in the 'Ville -- Stretching out the snake -- The Dalian dance card -- Gathering the troops -- Mr. Bassett goes to Washington -- Factory requiem -- Million-dollar backlash -- Copper wires and pink slips -- Shakedown street -- Mud turtle -- The replacements -- "Sheila, get me the Governor!" -- The Smith River twitch -- Appendix. A Virginia furniture dynasty. |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject |
Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.
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Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. |
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Bassett Furniture Industries.
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Bassett Furniture Industries. |
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Bassett, John D., III, 1937-
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Bassett, John D., III, 1937- |
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Furniture industry and trade -- United States.
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Furniture industry and trade. |
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United States. |
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Furniture industry and trade -- Foreign ownership.
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Offshore outsourcing.
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Offshore outsourcing. |
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Globalization.
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Globalization. |
| ISBN |
0316231436 (hardback) |
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9780316231435 (hardback) |
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