By Suzanne Berger and the MIT Industrial Performance Center
In the news: Professor Berger interviewed on NPR's Marketplace (1/23/2006) Professor Berger interviewed in Le Nouvel Observateur Review in the New York Review of Books
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Over the past three years, many people have come to fear that no job is safe. In industry after industry, from garments to semiconductor chips to telephone call centers to engineering services, jobs have moved to low-wage countries like China, Mexico and Romania. Production that used to be handled in the four walls of factories can now be broken up into bits and pieces connected by value chains stretching around the world. Which pieces—if any—will remain in first world countries?
HOW WE COMPETE is the first book on globalization that goes into the trenches of international businesses to see which practices and companies are succeeding, and which are failing. Berger's team has conducted over 600 interviews with companies in the US, Mexico, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Romania, China, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan. They've asked managers exactly what parts of the production process are carried out in their own plants and which are outsourced, who their biggest competitors are, and how they plan to grow their business. Suzanne Berger is the Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science at MIT. She is Director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative and has been teaching at MIT since 1968. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and a PhD from Harvard University. She was a member of the MIT Commission of Industrial Productivity and co-author of its report MADE IN AMERICA (1989).
Available December 2005.
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Category: Business & Economics |
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