The Renewal Process and Obstacles to Innovation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Zannetos, Zenon S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133224680X ISBN 13: 9781332246809

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The Renewal Process and Obstacles to Innovation

It appears to me that the maturity of firms and industries, and I even dare say economies, is a relative phenomenon and that most likely it is caused by constraints that we as managers, engineers and scientists impose on our imagination.

Let us for a moment look at industrial history and draw some lessons. No one can ignore available empirical evidence that, in the United States, we have firms and industries that have matured and are declining. So that I may not alienate people and make foes out of friends, I will not mention specific firms by name, but instead I will concentrate on industries. Shoes, textiles, ships, steel, farm equipment, consumer electronics, automobiles, are but a few examples of industries where the United States was preeminent and lost its leading edge. In this sense these industries, in the United States.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 133224680X
• ISBN 13: 9781332246809
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 28
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