[MGMT 1030] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (33 pages long)

• School: York University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGMT 1030
• Professor: Andrew Thomson

Document Summary

Cabinet and furniture manufacture in late nineteenth -century. The cabinet and furniture manufacture illustrates the diversity of paths to industrialization. Compared to the united states: complex and unpredictable demand, smaller markets, lower incomes. Small and unpowered workshops remained competitive throughout the 19th and 20th c. Reflects the unique interaction of local demand and supply. Survival of small and unpowered enterprises and the continued coexistence of diverse technologies and scales of production were not unique to furniture manufacture or to canada. Small firms were as part of the revolution as any other familiar symbols. Answer for cdn furniture markets lies in the nature of the demand for furniture and in the peculiarities of local society. Ontario was in the middle of an economic transformation, which was changing production structure, and how people earned money and materials (like coal, petroleum and electricity) New challenges existed because of new technology and the increasingly complex circumstances.