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Tables of Contents for The Productive Edge
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
9
2
Preface
11
8
Part I Introduction
Introduction
19
12
American Industrial Performance: A Top-Down View
31
24
Part II Five Routes to Renewal
Something Borrowed, Something New: The Regeneration of the US Automobile Industry
55
30
Salvation from Outside: The Triumph of Electric Steel
85
23
Doom, Gloom, and Boom: The Comeback of the American Semiconductor Industry
108
36
The Deregulation Solution: Competition Comes to the Power Industry
144
20
Creating New Industries: Systems Competition and the Emerging Age of Wireless
164
29
Part III Best Practice Revisited
Three Forces of Industrial Change: Innovation, Globalization, and Deregulation
193
8
Fads and Fashions and Nuts and Bolts
201
12
Putting People First
213
15
Information Technology: Doing IT Right
228
16
Best Practice Revisited
244
17
Part IV Living with Ambiguity: A Path to Faster Growth
Investment, Growth, and Uncertainty
261
8
Redefining the Employment Relation
269
15
Investing in Science and Technology
284
24
The Creative Organization
308
12
Toward a New Economic Citizenship
320
21
Appendices
I. Measuring Productivity Growth
329
4
II. A Brief Guide to Wireless Services
333
4
III. ``Best Practice'': Lessons from Made in America's Leading Companies
337
4
Notes
341
18
Index
359