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Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor
William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial leadership of cooperative relations between employers and shop-floor workers. Such relations permit employers to use new technologies to their maximum potential, which in turn transforms the high fixed costs inherent in these technologies into low unit costs and large market shares. Cooperative relations can also lead...
Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?
Lazonick explores the origins of the new era of employment insecurity and income inequality, and considers what governments, businesses, and individuals can do about it. He also asks whether the United States can refashion its high-tech business model to generate stable and equitable economic growth. --from publisher description.
Investing in Innovation
This Element explains how corporate financialization,through predatory value extraction, undermines investment in innovation in the US.
Predatory Value Extraction
Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as 'maximizing shareholder value' (MSV) that emerged in the 1980s came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms in the United States. Undermining the social foundations of sustainable prosperity, it resulted in employment instability, income inequity, and slow productivity growth. In explaining what happened to sustainable prosperity, William Lazonick and Jang-Sup Shin focus on the growing imbalance between value creation and value extraction in the U.S. economy, and the corporate-governance institutions that determine this balance in the nation's major business corpo...
Organization and Technology in Capitalist Development
A selection of William Lazonick's important work on industrial development in Britain and the United States. The first part of the text examines the decline of the British economy, and the second part focuses on labour, management and technology in the rise and recent decline of the US economy.
Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy
Explains the transitions in twentieth-century industrial leadership in terms of changing business investment strategies and organizational structures.
Management Innovation
This book assesses the work, ideas, and influence of the doyen of business historians, Alfred Chandler, particularly on management innovation, strategy, organization, and finance.
The Decline of the British Economy
Focusing on specific industries and issues, Elbaum examines the decline of the British economy in terms of its structural rigidity and historic changes in the world economy.
Predatory Value Extraction
Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as "maximizing shareholder value" (MSV) that emerged in the 1980s came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms in the United States. Undermining the social foundationsof sustainable prosperity, it resulted in employment instability, income inequity, and slow productivity growth. In explaining what happened to sustainable prosperity, William Lazonick and Jang-Sup Shin focus on the growing imbalance between value creation and value extraction in the U.S. economy,and the corporate-governance institutions that determine this balance in the nation's major business corpora...
Investment in Innovation
Covers data from 1954 to 1995.
