The Competitive Status of the U.S. Auto Industry: -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- The Competitive Status of the U.S. Auto Industry -- Summary -- THREE HISTORICAL THEMES -- Convergence in Technology -- Internationalization -- Public Demands on the Industry -- Product Cost and Quality --...

Global Economy, Global Technology, Global Corporations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Overview of the Project -- BACKGROUND AND REVIEW OF THE STUDY PROCESS -- AREAS OF AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT -- Agreement on the Importance of Effective MNC Management -- Agreement on the Correlation Between...

Computer Chips and Paper Clips -- Copyright -- Contents -- Volume II: Case Studies and Policy Perspectives -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Technological Change and Women Workers in the Office -- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE -- Information Technologies -- Computers -- Data-Entry Technologies --...

Computer Chips and Paper Clips -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CONTENTS, VOLUME I -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I OVERVIEW -- Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives -- THE CHANGING ROLE OF AMERICAN WOMEN -- OBSERVATIONS ON CHANGING TECHNOLOGY -- POLICY PERSPECTIVES -- Framing the...

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Information Technology and the Productivity Paradox -- 3 Individual and Organizational Productivity: Linkages and Processes -- 4 What Is Enough? A Systems Perspective on Individual-Organizational Performance Linkages -- 5 Measuring and...

Japan's Growing Technological Capability -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Japan's Growing Technological Capability and Implications for the U.S. Economy: an Overview -- CONTEXT -- ASSESSMENTS OF U.S. AND JAPANESE TECHNOLOGICAL STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES -- ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS...

The Competitive Status of the U.S. Civil Aviation Manufacturing Industry -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary -- BACKGROUND -- Foreign Competition -- Growing Importance of International Markets -- Internationalization of Aircraft Manufacture -- Financial Performance of the Industry --...