How industrial companies in Germany's critically important investment goods sector are deploying new technological and organizational production concepts to adapt to competitiveness challenges, new market requirements, environment¤al demands, and policy pressures is examined in this book. It...

Despite many previous studies on catch-up, the path-following catch-up strategy has remained underexplored because of its questionable sustainability. However, in this study, we suggest that sustained and successful achievement of the path-following catch-up strategy is possible through the...