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The Management of Productivity and Technology in Manufacturing
This volume is concerned with the nature of new manufacturing technologies, such as CAD/CAM and robotics, as well as ap propriate methodologies for evaluating whether such technologies are financially and organizationally viable in particular contexts. The chapters included here were commissioned as papers for presen tation at The Wharton Conference on Productivity, Technology, and Organizational Innovation, which took place in Philadelphia on December 8 and 9 of 1983. The conference was sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Organizational Innovation. There has been a surge of interest in the area of manufacturing over the past ten years as managers have come ...
Productivity: Information technology and the American growth resurgence
A study of information technology and economic growth since 1995 that tracks the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries. The American economy has experienced renewed growth since 1995, with this surge rooted in the development and deployment of information technology (IT). This book traces the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries, documents the critical role of IT, and shows how U.S. nvestment in IT has important parallels in other developed countries.In analyzing the experience in the United States, the authors identify four IT-producing industries, 17 IT-using industries, and 23 non-IT industries and show that the IT-produci...
Organizational Analysis of the Productivity Impacts of Information Technology
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: B, University of South Australia, language: English, abstract: Productivity is very important to any financial system due to its importance when it comes to assessing economic growth and it is recognized as the basis for economic success, an important prerequisite for the development of Nations and also as a crucial pointer of economic competitiveness in all organizations. It must be noted from the outset that this study will use that united states as an example and everything will be analysed in terms of the US Information Technology(IT) is one of the resources in an orga...
Productivity Machines
How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany. The concept of productivity originated in a statistical measure of output per worker or per work-hour, calculated by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. A broader productivity culture emerged in 1920s America, as Henry Ford and others linked methods of mass production and consumption to high wages and low prices. These ideas were studied eagerly by a Germany in search of economic recovery after World War I, and, decades later, the Marshall Plan promoted productivity in its efforts to help post–World War II Europe rebuild. In Productivity Machines, Corinna Schlombs examines ...
