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Europe's Next Step: Organisational Innovation, Competition and Employment
Author(s): Lars Andreasen (Editor), Benjamin Coriat (Editor), Frisio den Hertog (Editor), Raphael Kaplinsky (Editor)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 31 Dec. 1995
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 346 pages
- ISBN-10: 071464630X
- ISBN-13: 9780714646305
Book Description
This book looks at the experience of 13 leading-edge European firms and institutions, drawn from the manufacturing services and health sectors. It shows how organisation has been the key to their productivity growth. It also shows that while Europe has much to learn from Japan and the USA, it has considerable expertise on which the production sector can grow.
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This book looks at the experience of 13 leading-edge European companies, drawn from the manufacturing, services and health sectors. It shows how organisation has been the key to their productivity growth. It also shows that whilst Europe has much to learn from Japan and the USA, there is a distinctive European approach to organisational expertise. This has important implications for strategic policy, in these institutions themselves, but also in government at both the national and local levels. Here, too, as the case studies show, Europe has considerable expertise on which the production sector can grow.
About the Author
Lars Erik Andreasen is an economist working for the Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs at the European Commission in Brussels. Benjamin Coriat teaches and researches at the Universite Paris-Nord. Friso den Hertog is a researcher and Deputy Director of the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) at the University of Limburg in Maastricht. Raphael Kaplinsky is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
