This paper provides an overview of some of the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMTs)which have changed the way … traditional manufacturing systems manufacture goods and companies conduct their business around the world. Applications of these … technologies in various manufacturing sectors are explored as well as issues and challenges are discussed. This paper has …

We develop a model to study the impact of corporate governance on firm investment decisions and industry competition … investment strategy and we study how different covernance structures shape technical progress and the degree of competition over … characterized by heterogeneous governance structures generate the well-documented inverted-U shaped relation between competition and …

for manufacturing and services industries in eight major EU countries. We test the relevance of the two major strategies … classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out by …

Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China … for the US market on the innovation efforts of the Mexican manufacturing sector. After controlling for the influence of … several variables, we find a U-curve shaped relationship between foreign competition (measured by the China effect) and the …