Recent Writings on Competitiveness: Boxing the Compass

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See, for example, Wheelwright S. , “Restoring Competitiveness in U.S. Manufacturing,” in Teece D. , ed., The Competitive Challenge (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1987).

Porter M. , “Changing Patterns of International Competition,” in Teece D. , ed., The Competitive Challenge (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1987).

Piori M. Sabel C. , The Second Industrial Divide (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984); Womack J. Jones D. Roos D. , The Machine that Changed the World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991).

Lazonick W. , Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990).

Chandler A. , Strategy and Structure (New York, NY: Doubleday & Co., Anchor Books Edition, 1966).

Prahalad C. K. Hamel G. , “The Core Competence of the Corporation,” Harvard Business Review (1990).

Womack , op. cit.

Clark K. Fujimoto T. , Product Development Performance: Strategy Management and Organization in the World Auto Industry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1991).

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Baumol W. Blackman S. Wolff E. , Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989).

See, for example, Maddison , op. cit.

Abramovitz M. , “Catching Up, Forging Ahead and Falling Behind” Journal of Economic History (June 1986).

Baumol , op. cit.

Nelson R. , “The U.S. Technology Lead: Where Did It Come From and Where Did It Go”, Research Policy (1990).

See, for example, Reich R. Magaziner I. , Minding America's Business (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1987); Cohen S. Zysman J. , Manufacturing Matters (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1987).

See, for example, Goto Odagiri , “Japan,” in Nelson R. , ed., National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Study (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

For a recent statement, see Freeman C. , Technology Policy and Economic Performance (London: Francis Pinter, 1987).

Bhagwati J. , The Worlds Trading System and Risk (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).

See, for example, Chandler A. , Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990); Porter M.E. , The Competitive Advantage of Nations (New York, NY: Free Press, 1990).

For a detailed discussion, see Langlois R. Nelson R. , “Industrial Innovation Policy: Lessons from American History,” Science, 18 (February 1983).