Examines the competition between American and foreign companies in the manufacture of steel, color television, semiconductors, textiles, footwear, automobiles.
"...should help mobilize Government support for the nation's slipping technological and international trade position...." Leonard Silk, The New York Times.
The Race for the New Frontier: International Competition in Advanced Technology : Decisions for America
Here, the approach of the authors is not to argue that the world is becoming more (or less) global, but to provide a valuable insight into just how these forces are shaping industries, whether managers can influence these forces and what ...
This collection of essays focuses on the changing role of firms and states in shaping international competition.
In this incisive book, Quinlan explains that investors and policy makers don't understand how U.S. companies operate and compete in the world economy today.
U.S. Competitiveness in the World Economy
The path that each industry or firm took varied. This book argues that the specific characteristics of each industry defined the conditions of competitiveness and provide a wide range of cases as illustrations.
A number of implicit assumptions in the current discussion about U.S. industrial performance are shown in this book to be inappropriate—changes in international trade are not the major reason for the declining share of manufacturing in U ...
The essays presented in Competitiveness and American Society, all written especially for this volume, address these and related questions.
Competition and Monopoly in American Industry