American Manufacturing in a Global Market

I: Effects of Public Policy on Manufacturing’s Future -- 1. Government and Manufacturing: “Don’t Just Stand There, Undo Something” -- 2. Public Policy and Manufacturing: Back to Basics -- 3. What Do Economic Statistics Tell Us About Manufacturing’s Future? -- 4. What Should Be Done for Manufacturing? -- 5. How to Rebuild America -- 6. Antitrust Policy and American Industrial Competitiveness -- II: Multinational Firms and Global Markets -- 7. To Compete Globally, American Firms Must Know Their Customers -- 8. The Changing Aerospace Marketplace -- 9. Joint Ventures: The Challenge of Cooperation -- 10. American Manufacturing in the 1990s: The Adjustment Challenge -- III: Education’s Restructuring Task -- 11. Increasing Competition in U.S. Education -- 12. What Is the Role of Business in Education? -- 13. Targeting Education Reforms to Do the Most Good -- 14. A Higher Education Agenda for Manufacturing Management -- IV: Organizing for Success -- 15. Manufacturing Competitiveness Requires More Than Downsizing -- 16. The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions -- 17. Manufacturing Growth through Acquisition -- 18. Creating Value from Castoffs -- V: The Changing Work Environment -- 19. Manufacturing Excellence and Work-Force Excellence Are Inseparable -- 20. Changes in Company Culture and Labor Relations -- 21. Building Business/Education Partnerships -- 22. Rhetoric and Reality in Labor Relations -- VI: R & D and Quality -- 23. Converting Knowledge into Products -- 24. Technology, Innovation and Commercialization -- 25. Research and the Pharmaceutical Environment.