Research Catalog

Title

American manufacturing in a global market / edited by Kenneth W. Chilton, Melinda E. Warren, Murray L. Weidenbaum.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chilton, Kenneth W.
• Warren, Melinda.
• Weidenbaum, Murray L.
• Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Center for the Study of American Business.

Description

xvii, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Manufacturing industries > United States
• Manufactures
• Competition, International
• Industries > United States
• Manufactured Materials
• Industries
• Competition, International
• Manufactures
• Manufacturing industries
• Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
• Verarbeitende Industrie
• Kongress
• Aufsatzsammlung
• United States
• USA

Note

• "The individual chapters are edited transcriptions of a November 9-10, 1988 conference on American manufacturing in the 1990s" -- P. [ix].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Part I. Effects of public policy on manufacturing's future. Government and manufacturing / Murray Weidenbaum ; Public policy and manufacturing / Robert Eisner ; What do economic statistics tell us about manufacturing's future? / Robert Ortner ; What should be done for manufacturing? / Richard McKenzie ; How to rebuild America / Fred Branfman ; Antitrust policy and American industrial competitiveness / Thomas DiLorenzo -- Part II. Multinational firms and global markets. To compete globally, American firms must know their customers / Kenneth Butterworth ; The changing aerospace marketplace / John McDonnell ; Joint ventures / Yoshito Tokumitsu ; American manufacturing in the 1990s / Robert Lawrence -- Part III. Education's restructuring task. Increasing competition in U.S. education / Dwight Lee ; What is the role of business in education? / Jeanne Allen ; Targeting education reforms to do the most good / Curtis Plott ; A higher education agenda for manufacturing management / Dean Kropp.
• Part IV. Organizing for success. Manufacturing competitiveness requires more than downsizing / Jewell Westerman ; The effect of mergers and acquisitions / Jerry Moskowitz ; Manufacturing growth through acquisition / J. Robert Copper ; Creating value from castoffs / Ralph Lobdell -- Part V. The changing work environment. Manufacturing excellence and work-force excellence are inseparable / Jerry Jasinowski ; Changes in company culture and labor relations / Dennis Stachelski ; Building business/education partnerships / Diane Mulligan ; Rhetoric and reality in labor relations / Rudolph Oswald -- Part VI. R & D and quality. Converting knowledge into products / Earle Harbison, Jr. ; Technology, innovation and commercialization / Marshall Phelps, Jr. ; Research and the pharmaceutical environment / Myra Williams.

ISBN

• 0792390512
• 9780792390510

LCCN

89039844

OCLC

• ocm20355443
• 20355443
• SCSB-1891543

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library