Senior management's critical role in strengthening technological competitiveness
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Firms tend to concentrate on production and market operations more than product development as they progress. This tendency makes firms focus more on managerial specialization and attend less to improvement in product changes. Firms must integrate specialization at senior management levels while considering technological competitiveness. To ensure technological competitiveness, management must go beyond R & D and engineering criteria and continually evaluate policy or input requirements, production, factor prices, investment needs, market potential, and actual market successes and failures.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 1992
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Productivity, R&D and international competitiveness
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Strategies which are not easily adapted by competitors have become an important prerequisite for survival in an atmosphere of intensified global competition. Two such strategies which can be adapted from within cover productivity and research and development. Top management must, therefore, become more involved in ensuring continued progress in these areas. Unless such long-term commitments to industrial development are made, companies in the US will likely suffer from their preoccupation with improving short-term profitability.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 1993
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Japanese strategies for increasing industrial competitiveness in the USA
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Japanese companies have been expanding their foreign operations in recent years. In particular, the US is considered by Japanese companies as one of the best places to invest in. However, increased competition from both US and foreign enterprises are forcing Japanese companies to adopt new strategies to increase their competitiveness.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 1995
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