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The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
Kanigel, Robert - The MIT Press
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man -- the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably enough, as Taylorism. "In the past the man has been first. In the future the System will be...
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Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 7
Jaffe, Adam B. (contributor); Lerner, Josh (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
innovation process. This annual series, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, brings the work of leading … industry; a new mechanism to create economic incentives for producers of digital goods that both stimulates innovation and …
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Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 5
Jaffe, Adam B. (contributor); Lerner, Josh (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
The economic importance of innovation brings with it an active debate on the impact public policy has on the innovation … effect of taxes on entrepreneurship; and how to incorporate innovation into the analysis of business mergers. These papers …, innovation, and the commercialization of new technologies. …
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