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9780521645201

Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521645201

  • ISBN10:

    0521645204

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the USA, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computers, semiconductors, and software. In each of these industries, firms located in one or a very few countries became the clear technological and commercial leaders. In a number of cases, the locus of leadership changed, sometimes more than once, over the course of the histories studied. The focus of the book is on the key factors that supported the emergence of national leadership in each industry, and the reasons behind the shifts when they occurred. Special attention is given to the national policies which helped to create, or sustain, industrial leadership.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
List of Contributors
viii
Introduction
1(18)
David C. Mowery
Richard R. Nelson
The Evolution of Competitive Advantage in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1947--1996
19(60)
Richard N. Langlois
W. Edward Steinmueller
Industrial Dynamics and the Evolution of Firms' and Nations' Competitive Capabilities in the World Computer Industry
79(54)
Timothy F. Bresnahan
Franco Malerba
The Computer Software Industry
133(36)
David C. Mowery
Innovation in the Machine Tool Industry: A Historical Perspective on the Dynamics of Comparative Advantage
169(48)
Roberto Mazzoleni
Dynamics of Comparative Advantage in the Chemical Industry
217(50)
Ashish Arora
Ralph Landau
Nathan Rosenberg
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Revolution in Molecular Biology: Interactions Among Scientific, Institutional, and Organizational Change
267(45)
Rebecca Henderson
Luigi Orsenigo
Gary P. Pisano
Diagnostic Devices: An Analysis of Comparative Advantages
312(47)
Annetine C. Gelijns
Nathan Rosenberg
Explaining Industrial Leadership
359(24)
David C. Mowery
Richard R. Nelson
Index 383

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