Introduction -- Increasing U.S. competitiveness by improving knowledge creation and technology diffusion -- Workforce development -- Supporting supply chains and small and medium-sized enterprises -- Sustainability and the future of the Institutes -- Key points made by presenters during the...

This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the importance of workers' tacit knowledge about firms' intangible assets for competition in product and labor markets. Evidence is presented on product and labor market imperfections across manufacturing and services firms in the...

"There are two pillars of a Lean Management System: Continuous Improvement and Respect of People. Most books about Lean Production have focused overwhelmingly on Continuous Improvement and fail to treat Respect of People as an equal pillar. It is overlooked or understated, resulting not in a...

One of the main challenges when analyzing multinational firms (MNEs) is that this group is comprised of a rich variety of firms engaged in a spectrum of activity. In response to the separate models describing one type of MNE or another, the Knowledge Capital model was developed in order to...

Review text: "This book [...] is essential for anyone in any high technology work that operates in an international environment, which includes almost all of us today. The whole concept and structure of the book makes this a beautiful piece of work. Ultimately, it will facilitate international...