Abstract

As their businesses globalize at increasing rates, managers need frameworks for analyzing industry activities on a worldwide basis. In this paper, a framework for global industry analysis is presented, using the machine tool industry to illustrate how industry overviews, global consumption and production analyses can be used to gain worldwide perspectives on industry behaviors. Breakdowns by company, segment, region and country markets help strategy formulation and resource allocations in the worldwide marketplace. Obtaining the right sorts of information is the key to insightful global analyses. The globalization of industry trade associations and on‐line business news services are major sources of worldwide industry developments.

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