Intro -- Preface -- Technology Policy in the Process of Change: Changing Paradigms in Research and Technology Policy? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Traditional Motives for Public R&T Policy -- 3 From Material Technology to Technological Practice -- 4 The Crisis of Growth-oriented R&T Policy -- 5 The...

The goal of this work was to use these cross-national comparisons to betterunderstand how human resource policies operate to affect firm performance,not as individual practices, but as bundles of interacting practices thathave positive effects on both productivity and the quality of life of workers

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Organization Theory - A Contribution to Our Understanding of the Visible Hand -- Part I. Industrial Dynamics - Some General Problems -- 1. The World Productivity Growth Slump -- Some Explanations -- R&D, Technological Change, and Productivity -- What Went Wrong...