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Infant industries and industrial policy : a lesson from South Africa
No full textThe changing world economic environment allows for little national tariff protection and demands a high level of competitiveness and export orientation for industry to succeed. Using the example of a successful South African industrial exporting firm, Raphael Kaplinsky and Edmund Mhlongo tackle this conundrum in the local context
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Patients as Work in Progress: Organisational Reform in the Health Sector
No full textThis book looks at the experience of 13 leading-edge European firms and institutions, drawn from the manufacturing services and health sectors. It shows how organisation has been the key to their productivity growth. It also shows that while Europe has much to learn from Japan and the USA, it has considerable expertise on which the production sector can grow
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Does Participation in Ownership Foster Participation in Continuous Improvement? The Case of Baxi Partnership
No full textThis book looks at the experience of 13 leading-edge European firms and institutions, drawn from the manufacturing services and health sectors. It shows how organisation has been the key to their productivity growth. It also shows that while Europe has much to learn from Japan and the USA, it has considerable expertise on which the production sector can grow
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A Policy Agenda for a Post-Apartheid South Africa
No full textRaphie Kaplinsky gives an overview of the readings in IDS Bulletin 25.1 and starts to explore the policy terrain which would allow an incoming administration in post-apartheid South Africa to meet the needs of the population more effectively. The authors focus on policy issues that are imbedded in current political processes - and they cover a range of economic and social policy issues: industrial growth, the nurturing of microenterprises, foreign investment policy, manufacturing, mining reform and taxation, violence and reconciliation, and education at primary, secondary and university level. The content also reflects on the extent to which policy thinking in South Africa could be informed by the experience of other countries which have confronted similar challenges. For those outside South Africa, it is hoped that the articles provide an overview of the broad issues that are being confronted in the restitution of the wrongs of the past
Putting supply chain learning into practice. (In special issue: What really matters in operations management)
No full textAs firms struggle to cope with an increasingly turbulent and uncertain economic environment there is widespread recognition of the importance of organisational learning. One option is to look at the potential of shared learning between firms, where common interests and interdependence provide motivation for experience sharing and other forms of synergy in learning. A particular version of inter-firm learning is the use of supply chains as a mechanism for upgrading and transferring “appropriate practice” and this article reports on exploratory research on this theme. It draws on a literature survey and a detailed study of six UK supply chains at various stages of implementing supply chain learning
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Flexible Organisation: European Industry in Transition
No full textThis book looks at the experience of 13 leading-edge European firms and institutions, drawn from the manufacturing services and health sectors. It shows how organisation has been the key to their productivity growth. It also shows that while Europe has much to learn from Japan and the USA, it has considerable expertise on which the production sector can grow
Natural resources innovation and development
No full textIn this Globelics Thematic Review, the author teampresents and discusses recent research on the relationshipsbetween natural resources1, innovationand development in developing countries, and suggestssome implications of this body of knowledgefor policy makers.Fil: Andersen, Allan Dahl. No especifíca;Fil: Johnson, Björn. Aalborg University; DinamarcaFil: Marin, Anabel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación; ArgentinaFil: Kaplan, Dave. No especifíca;Fil: Stubrin, Lilia Inés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martin. Escuela de Economía y Negocios; ArgentinaFil: Lundvall, Bengt Åke. Aalborg University; DinamarcaFil: Kaplinsky, Raphael. No especifíca
Author Lev Raphael reads from his work at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textInternationally acclaimed author and Greater Lansing resident, Lev Raphael, reads from his memoir "My Germany". He recounts his travels to the NAZI labor camp where his mother was held during World War II and coming to terms with his mother's traumatic past. Introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez at an event held at the MSU Main Library. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Global value chains: the rise (and fall?) of deep globalisation
No full textMonográfico: Estructura y dinámica de las cadenas globales de valorEste documento analiza el papel desempeñado por las cadenas globales de valor (CGV) en el mantenimiento a partir de los años ochenta del paradigma de la producción en masa, relacionando el declive de la participación de las CGV con la fractura de dicho paradigma. En la segunda parte, se analiza el surgimiento del nuevo paradigma tecno-económico de las TIC, concluyendo que, si bien no provocará el colapso de la globalización, sí cambiará su naturaleza. Las finanzas, la inversión, el conocimiento, la tecnología y los valores seguirán difundiéndose a escala mundial, pero la producción se acercará cada vez más al consumo. Pero las cadenas de valor transfronterizas seguirán expandiéndose, y serán predominantemente regionales y no mundiales.This paper analyzes the role played by global value chains (GVCs) in the maintenance of the mass production paradigm from the 1980s onwards, relating the decline in the participation of GVCs to the fracture of this paradigm. The second part analyzes the emergence of the new techno-economic paradigm of ICTs, concluding that, although it will not cause the collapse of globalization, it will change its nature. Finance, investment, knowledge, technology and values will continue to spread globally, but production will move increasingly closer to consumption. But cross-border value chains will continue to expand, and will be predominantly regional rather than global.Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI)TRUEpu
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