Lean and Mean: Why Large Corporations Will Continue to Dominate the Global Economy - Brossura

Harrison, Bennett

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9781572302525: Lean and Mean: Why Large Corporations Will Continue to Dominate the Global Economy

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ISBN 10: 1572302526 ISBN 13: 9781572302525

Casa editrice: Guilford Press, 1998

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Is big business on its way out? Are small firms better at generating new jobs and spurring technological innovation? In this book, the author argues that, contrary to pervailing wisdom, the big firm is not only alive and well but is becoming more flexible and efficient. He makes the case that although smaller companies have an important role to play, long term economic growth lies ultimately where is always has: with the country's largest most resourceful global companies.; Harrison argues that rather than romantisizing the small-firm led economic growth and development, there are more significant issues to be dealt with by government, business, and labour policymakers at the turn of the millenium. These include: how to promote the relationship of local businesses to the global networked economy; how to encourage innovative management behaviour without simultaneously adding to under employment, insecurity, and working poverty; and how to regulate businesses whose organizational boundaries are becoming increasingly fuzzy.

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L'autore:

Bennett Harrison is Professor of Urban Political Economy in the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy of the New School for Social Research in New York, and an affiliated member of the New School Department of Economics. He is also a regular columnist for Technology Review Magazine, and author of eleven books and more than one hundred technical papers published in academic journals. Harrison writes for many newspapers and popular magazines, and has appeared often on such television programs as the Lehrer News Hour on PBS.

Contenuti:

Foreword, Robert Kuttner

I. Overview

1. Big Firms, Small Firms, Network Firms

II. Reassessing the Idea that Small Firms Are the Economic Development Drivers

2. The Myth of Small Firms as Job Generators

3. Are Small Firms the Technology Leaders?

4. The Evolution (and Devolution?) of the Italian Industrial Districts

5. Is Silicon Valley an Industrial District?

III. The Emerging System of Globally Networked Production

6. The Emergence of Large Firm-Led Production Networks

7. Large Firm-Centered Networked Production Systems in Japan and Europe