Author: Committee on Competitiveness of the U.S. Minerals
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: industry, metals, minerals, competitiveness
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0309042453
ISBN-13: 9780309042451

This book includes an assessment of the global minerals and metals industry; a review of technologies in use for exploration, mining, minerals processing, and metals extraction; and a look at research priorities. The core of the volume is a series of specific recommendations for government, industry, and the academic community, to promote partnerships that will produce a strong flow of new technologies. Special focus is given to the role of the federal government, particularly the Bureau of Mines.

Author: Kirsty S. Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: competitiveness, european
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1993-05-28
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521434432
ISBN-13: 9780521434430

Analyzing the key factors determining current and future European competitiveness, this book focuses on the issues of internationalization of firms and markets, the role of technology and innovation, and of continuing European integration, and deals with these issues on the level of firms, industries, and countries. The competitiveness of the EC as a whole, relative to the United States and Japan, is also examined. It will be of interest to students, scholars and policy makers concerned with industry, technology, trade, and the future of the EC.

Author: Titus Galama
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: technology, science, competitiveness
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-08-25
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0833044249
ISBN-13: 9780833044242

Is the United States in danger of losing its competitive edge in science and technology? This volume reviews the arguments surrounding this issue and contrasts them with relevant data, including trends in research and development investment; information on the size, composition, and pay of the U.S. science and engineering workforce; and domestic and international education statistics. The authors conclude with recommendations for policymakers.

Author: Robert Burgess
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Keywords: accession, eve, competitiveness, baltics
Number of Pages: 69
Published: 2004-05
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1589063260
ISBN-13: 9781589063266

This paper assesses the competitive position of the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, in the light of their accession to the EU, focusing on the viability of maintaining fixed exchange rates upon joining the EU, participating in its exchange rate mechanism and adopting the euro currency. Issues discussed include: effective exchange rate indicators and export performance; productivity developments; equilibrium real exchange rates; and policy implications.

Author: Bert G. Hickman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: competitiveness, productivity, international
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1992-03-26
List price: $164.99
ISBN-10: 0195065158
ISBN-13: 9780195065152

This pathbreaking volume conveys the "state of the art" of contemporary research on productivity growth and international competitiveness--arguably the most important problems facing contemporary economics. Adopting a worldwide perspective that features comparative analyses of both industrialized and developing countries, the book assembles papers from an international roster of leading scholars who cover a wide range of complementary topics and approaches. A number of the papers attempt to increase the clarity of thinking about "competitiveness" by developing formal definitions of the concep

Author: James L. Darroch
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Pre
Keywords: competitiveness, global, banks, canadian
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0773518681
ISBN-13: 9780773518681

While there has been considerable concern about the competitiveness of Canadian industries in the increasingly competitive global environment, James Darroch shows that the Canadian financial services sector has been a successful competitor in international markets. Four Canadian banks - the Royal Bank of Canada, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the Bank of Montreal, and the Bank of Nova Scotia - rank among the ten largest banks in North America. More importantly, they are recognized by industry insiders to be among the best managed banks not only in North America but in the world. While

Author: William P. Barnett
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: competitiveness, evolves, organizations, among, queen, red
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691131147
ISBN-13: 9780691131146

There’s a scene in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." Evolutionary biologists have used this scene to illustrate the evolutionary arms race among competing species. William Barnett argues that a similar dynamic is at work when organizations compete, shaping how firms and industries evolve over time. Barnett examines the effects--and unforeseen perils--o