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Author : Stephen S. Cohen
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Matters written by Stephen S. Cohen and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1987-06-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : United States Department of Commerce
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing in America written by and published by United States Department of Commerce. This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Army was much embarrassed by the absence of the cavalry,” Robert E. Lee wrote of the Gettysburg campaign, stirring a controversy that continues even today. Lee’s statement was an indirect indictment of Gen. James Ewell Brown (“Jeb”) Stuart, who was the cavalry. This book reexamines the questions that have shadowed the legendary Confederate hero and offers a fresh, informed interpretation of his role at Gettysburg. Avoiding the partisan pros and cons characterizing previous accounts, Warren C. Robinson reassesses the historical record to come to a clearer view of Stuart’s orders for the crucial battle (as well as what was expected of him), of his actual performance, and of the impact his late arrival had on the outcome of the campaign. Though Stuart may not have disobeyed Lee’s orders, Robinson argues, he did abuse the general’s discretion by raiding Washington rather than scouting for the army at Gettysburg—a move that profoundly affected Confederate fortunes and perhaps the war itself.
Author : Gary P. Pisano
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422187543
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Producing Prosperity written by Gary P. Pisano and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing’s central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today’s undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrow’s innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the US industrial sector. Only by reviving this “industrial commons” can the world’s largest economy build the expertise and manufacturing muscle to regain competitive advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance—for restoring itself, and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of industries and economies, and they provide business leaders with a framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research, and promote collaboration between business and academia. For executives, policymakers, academics, and innovators alike, Producing Prosperity provides the clearest and most compelling account yet of how the American economy lost its competitive edge—and how to get it back.
Author : Office of Competition and Economic Analysis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781494921330
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Exploring on the Stability of the U.s. Manufacturing Industries written by Office of Competition and Economic Analysis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exporting provides opportunities to expand the sales of U.S. manufacturing industries, resulting in greater revenues for U.S. companies and higher employment for U.S. workers. However, investors and workers are concerned about risk as well as expected return, and risk depends on the volatility of economic outcomes. In the case of exports, it is worth asking whether the added risks and unpredictability associated with exporting outweigh the increase in expected revenues.
Author : Richard McCormack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615288192
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing a Better Future for America written by Richard McCormack and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030904331X
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Internationalization of U.S. Manufacturing written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the basis of discussions and analysis of the current environment for international competition, this book was written to dispel misconceptions regarding the motivating forces behind internationalization and, therefore, to improve understanding of both the challenges and the opportunities of a global market and production base. Important consequences of internationalization for both manufacturers and national policy are described. The volume provides an assessment of what it takes to be successful as manufacturers and as a nation in the international competitive environment.
Author : William R. Killingsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606496107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Saving American Manufacturing written by William R. Killingsworth and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing is a vital sector of a modern economy and is crucial for national defense and security. Since 1990, however, the U.S. has lost one in every three manufacturing jobs. In 1990, U.S. employment in manufacturing was 17,695,000. By 2011, the number of Americans employed in manufacturing had dropped to 11,734,000 - - a stunning loss of roughly 6 million jobs, a 34% drop in manufacturing employment. The decline of the U.S. manufacturing industry has been severe and the impacts devastating to countless American families and communities. Many cities are filled with vacant and abandoned factories and are plagued with high unemployment. Because of the vast job losses, and concerns regarding economic viability and national security, manufacturing is now a major topic of discussion. Rebuilding American Manufacturing presents and reviews why manufacturing matters. The book discusses the important contributions made by manufacturing to a vibrant economy, including the payment of good wages, driving innovation, creating exports and positive contributions to trade balance, and supporting national defense and security. Moreover, the book presents arguments that the loss of manufacturing is not inevitable and is not primarily the result of productivity gains nor of high wages. Analysis of the establishment data including the number of employees shows that, over time, somewhat surprisingly, the vast majority of factory closings were the larger plants with the greatest number of employees. This was true for most industries - the largest factories and plants were the ones most likely to close. This fact has major implications for business strategy and government policy because many companies are now considering reshoring manufacturing from abroad back to the U.S. If successful, this trend will help lower the unemployment rate and strengthen the economy.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Impact on U.S. Manufacturing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Riker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Exporting on the Stability of U.S. Manufacturing Industries written by David Riker and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exporting provides opportunities to expand the sales of U.S. manufacturing industries, resulting in potentially greater revenues for U.S. companies and higher employment for U.S. workers. However, many investors and workers are legitimately concerned about risk and expected return. Do the added risks and unpredictability associated with exporting outweigh the increase in expected revenues? This paper investigates the link between exporting and the economic stability of the U.S. manufacturing sector. It does so in two ways. First, by analyzing the 2000-2009 revenues reported in the public financial statements of two U.S. companies with substantial non-U.S. sales. Second, by analyzing the industry-level shipments data for the U.S. manufacturing sector as reported in the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Manufactures and the Economic Censuses for 2000 through 2008"--Publisher's website.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309464528
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Securing Advanced Manufacturing in the United States written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government. Started in 2012 and established with bipartisan support by the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2014, the initiative envisages a nationwide network of research centers for manufacturing innovation. As of May 2017, 14 manufacturing innovation institutes had been established to facilitate the movement of early-stage research into proven capabilities ready for adoption by U.S. manufacturers. To better understand the role and experiences of the Manufacturing USA institutes to date, a committee of the Innovation Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on May 23, 2017 drawing together institute directors and manufacturing policy experts along with leaders from industry, academia, and government. Participants addressed the role of the manufacturing institutes in increasing advanced manufacturing in the United States, examined selected foreign programs designed to support advanced manufacturing, and reviewed recent assessments of existing institutes. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Author : Martin Eichenbaum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press Journals
ISBN 13 : 9780226645728
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (457 download)
Download or read book NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2018 written by Martin Eichenbaum and published by University of Chicago Press Journals. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains six studies on current topics in macroeconomics. The first shows that while assuming rational expectations is unrealistic, a finite-horizon forward planning model can yield results similar to those of a rational expectations equilibrium. The second explores the aggregate risk of the U.S. financial sector, and in particular whether it is safer now than before the 2008 financial crisis. The third analyzes “factorless income,” output that is not measured as capital or labor income. Next, a study argues that the financial crisis increased the perceived risk of a very bad economic and financial outcome, and explores the propagation of large, rare shocks. The next paper documents the substantial recent changes in the manufacturing sector and the decline in employment among prime-aged Americans since 2000. The last paper analyzes the dynamic macroeconomic effects of border adjustment taxes.
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262019388
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Made in the USA written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates.
Author : Eileen Appelbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801486555
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Advantage written by Eileen Appelbaum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee involvement strategies amount to anything more than another series of management fads or ruses designed to get more out of workers without giving them anything in return. This revelatory book, written by some of the skeptics, lays some of the suspicion to rest. Based on their visits to 44 plants and surveys of more than 4,000 employees, Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg, and Arne L. Kalleberg concluded that companies are indeed more successful when managers share knowledge and power with workers and when workers assume increased responsibility and discretion. The study of steel, apparel, and medical electronics and imaging plants revealed much. In self-directed teams, workers were able to eliminate bottlenecks and coordinate the work process. In task forces created to improve quality, they communicated with individuals outside their own work groups and were able to solve problems. Expensive equipment in steel mills operated with fewer interruptions, turnaround and labor costs were cut in apparel factories, and costly inventories of components and medical equipment were reduced. And what did the employees think? The worker survey showed that jobs in participatory work systems often provide more challenging tasks and more opportunities for creativity. Employees in apparel had higher hourly earnings; those in steel had both higher hourly earnings and higher job satisfaction. Workers in more participatory settings were no more likely than others to report heavy workloads or excessive demands on their time. They were, however, less likely to report involuntary overtime or conflict with co-workers, and were more likely to be satisfied with their surroundings. Manufacturing Advantage provides the best assessment available of the effectiveness of high-performance work systems. Freestanding chapters near the end of the book provide full documentation of research data without interrupting the narrative flow.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309176719
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Information Technology for Manufacturing written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-02-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a vision of manufacturing in the twenty-first century that maximizes efficiencies and improvements by exploiting the full power of information and provides a research agenda for information technology and manufacturing that is necessary for success in achieving such a vision. Research on information technology to support product and process design, shop-floor operations, and flexible manufacturing is described. Roles for virtual manufacturing and the information infrastructure are also addressed. A final chapter is devoted to nontechnical research issues.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Regulation on U.S. Manufacturing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vivek Ghosal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Impact of Uncertainty and Sunk Costs on Firm Dynamics and Industry Structure written by Vivek Ghosal and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464811938
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Trouble in the Making? written by Mary Hallward-Driemeier and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and globalization are threatening manufacturing’s traditional ability to deliver both productivity and jobs at a large scale for unskilled workers. Concerns about widening inequality within and across countries are raising questions about whether interventions are needed and how effective they could be. Trouble in the Making? The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development addresses three questions: - How has the global manufacturing landscape changed and why does this matter for development opportunities? - How are emerging trends in technology and globalization likely to shape the feasibility and desirability of manufacturing-led development in the future? - If low wages are going to be less important in defining competitiveness, how can less industrialized countries make the most of new opportunities that shifting technologies and globalization patterns may bring? The book examines the impacts of new technologies (i.e., the Internet of Things, 3-D printing, and advanced robotics), rising international competition, and increased servicification on manufacturing productivity and employment. The aim is to inform policy choices for countries currently producing and for those seeking to enter new manufacturing markets. Increased polarization is a risk, but the book analyzes ways to go beyond focusing on potential disruptions to position workers, firms, and locations for new opportunities. www.worldbank.org/futureofmanufacturing
