TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arora,Ashish
AU  - Landau,Ralph
AU  - Rosenberg,Nathan
ED  - Chemical Heritage Foundation.
TI  - Chemicals and long-term economic growth: insights from the chemical industry 
SN  - 0471182478 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 338.4766 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Chemical industry
KW  - Case studies
KW  - History
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Chemical engineering
KW  - Petroleum chemicals industry
N1  - "Publication in conjuction with the Chemical Heritage Foundation."; "A Wiley-Interscience publication."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction / Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenberg --
2. On the Making of Competitive Advantage: The Development of the Chemical Industries of Britain and Germany Since 1850 / Johann Peter Murmann and Ralph Landau --
3. Chemicals: A U.S. Success Story / Ashish Arora and Nathan Rosenberg --
4. The Japanese Puzzle / Takashi Hikino, Tsutomo Harada and Yoshio Tokuhisa --
5. The Process of Innovation in the Chemical Industry / Ralph Landau --
6. The Impact of the Legal System on Innovation / Tom Campbell and Ralph Landau --
7. Technological Change in Chemicals: The Role of University-Industry Relations / Nathan Rosenberg --
8. The Industry Evolves Within a Political, Social, and Public Policy Context: A Brief Look at Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States / Micheline Horstmeyer --
9. Monetary, Fiscal, and Trade Policies in the Development of the Chemical Industry / Barry Eichengreen --
10. Finance and the Chemical Industry / Marco Da Rin --
11. Structure and Performance of the Chemical Industry under Regulation / Kian Esteghamat --
12. Evolution of Industry Structure in the Chemical Industry / Ashish Arora and Alfonso Gambardella --
13. The Evolution of Corporate Capability and Corporate Strategy and Structure Within the World's Largest Chemical Firms: The Twentieth Century in Perspective / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Takashi Hikino and David Mowery --
14. Connecting Performance and Competitiveness with Finance: A Study of the Chemical Industry / Albert Richards --
15. Conclusions / Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenberg
N2  - Shows how the chemical industry can continue to grow and prosper. This book helps both scientists running small chemical companies and non-chemist managers of large corporations to make judgements based on the economic history of the chemical industry
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley042/97028674.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley034/97028674.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix05/97028674.html
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