Abstracts

Science and technology

Search abstracts:

Senior management's critical role in strengthening technological competitiveness

Article Abstract:

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.

Competition (Economics), Business enterprises, Technological innovations

---

Productivity, R&D and international competitiveness

Article Abstract:

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.

Analysis, Industrial research, International competition (Commerce), International competition (Economics), Industrial productivity

---

Japanese strategies for increasing industrial competitiveness in the USA

Article Abstract:

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.

Methods, Japan, Human resource management, Corporations, Corporations, Japanese

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Environmental and technological innovation. Environmental priorities. The Mexican environmental revolution
• Abstracts: Project management: keys to success. Managing mobilization costs. Project owners need sophisticated business partners
• Abstracts: Sediment toxicity evaluation: their niche in ecological assessments, part 2. Assessing contaminated aquatic sediments
• Abstracts: Fighting all the time. Virtuous viruses: agents of disease are being turned against cancer. Cellular response: are antibodies the most effective defense against AIDS?
• Abstracts: Profile: Wayne B. Jonas, probing medicine's outer reaches. Maglev: racing to oblivion?

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.