Michael H Best

The New Competitive Advantage

The Renewal of American Industry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

past and present technology R&D choices and corresponding investements in technical education. Thus capability and skill development policies shape what is on offer in the marketplace.

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This book addresses the resurgence of the American economy and the forces driving its growth. Building on his earlier work and engaging the ideas of Michael Porter, Best argues that America has developed a new model of technology management and regional innovation based on the principle of systems integration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780198297444
• ISBN-10: 0198297440
• Artikelnr.: 21653080

Autorenporträt

Michael Best is University Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He was Arthur Andersen Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge in 1999. Professor Best has also taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Sussex University; and Queen Mary College, London University. He is the author of The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring (Polity Press and Harvard University Press, 1991) which has sold over 10,000 copies.

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Introduction
2.: Production Systems
3.: Cluster Dynamics
4.: Innovation Capabilities and Skill Formation
5.: The Resurgence of Route 128: The Triumph of Open Systems
6.: Cluster Dynamics in Malaysian Electronics
7.: The Case of Northern Ireland
8.: Policy Implications