On the increasing role of technology in corporate policy : managerial strategies, experiential frontiers and national perspectives

 Content: Towards the increasing integration of management functions: needs and illustrative advances / Bela Gold --
 Structural change and strategic behaviour: moving from mass production to flexibility / Patrizio Bianchi --
 The impact of technology on corporate strategy and organization: illustrative cases and lessons / Pier A. Abetti --
 Strategic transformation and the success of high-technology companies / Edward B. Roberts --
 Global strategies in innovation: networks in research and production / John Hagedoorn --
 Managing corporate technology strategy / Mark Dodgson --
 Loose cannons or popguns: directors and the R & D program / Wickham Skinner and Milton C. Lauenstein --Technology acquisition strategies and processes: a reconsideration of the m̀ake versus buy\' decision / Michael Radnor --
 Quality up, technology dowm: manufacturing improvement programs in Europe / Arnoud De Meyer and Kasra Ferdows --
 Fall from excellence: case studies on the decline of industrial. Competitive advantage in manufacturing through information technology / Joel D Goldhar, Mariann Jelinek and Theodore W. Schlie --Evaluating the outputs and impacts of R & D/innovation / Albert H Rubenstein and Eliezer Geisler --
 Technology and strategic advantage: managing corporate technology transfer in the USA and Japan / Michael K. Badawy --
 Power density: product design for the 21st century / Robert L. Leibensperger --
 Value-added: the dominant factor in industrial competitiveness / Bruce Merrifield --
 Future needs of the Western Pacific economic region in the context of international logistics / Tsutomu Kono --
 Alternative approaches to developing national technological politics / Jacques De Bandt --
 The benefits and costs of international technical cooperation in mature industries: a US perspective / Gerhard Rosegger --
 US defence dependencies and commercial standards in the.