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Hart, David M.
Don't Worry About the Government? The LEED-NC "Green Building" Rating System and Energy Efficiency in U.S. Commercial Buildings
MIT IPC Working Paper 09-001
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Lester, Richard K.
Reforming the U. S. Energy Innovation System
MIT IPC Working Paper 08-006
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Whittaker, D. Hugh, Tianbiao Zhu, Timothy J. Sturgeon,
Mon Han Tsai, and Toshie Okita
Compressed Development
MIT IPC Working Paper 08-005
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Piore, Michael J.
Second Thoughts: On Economics, Sociology, Neoliberalism, Polanyi’s Double Movement and Intellectual Vacuums
MIT IPC Working Paper 08-004
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Steinfeld, Edward S., Richard K. Lester, and Edward A. Cunningham
Greener Plants, Grayer Skies? A report from the front lines of China's energy sector
MIT IPC Working Paper 08-003
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Value Chains, Networks, and Clusters: Reframing the Global Automotive Industry. This paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Geography.
MIT IPC Working Paper 08-002
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From Commodity Chains to Value Chains: Interdisciplinary theory building in an age of globalization. This paper will also appear as Chapter 6 of the forthcoming book Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research, Jennifer Bair (ed.), Stanford University Press, 2008
MIT IPC Working Paper 08-001
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Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America
MIT IPC Working Paper 07-002
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The Coal Industry in China (and secondarily India)
MIT IPC Working Paper 07-001
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UK plc: Just How Innovative Are We? Findings from the Cambridge-MIT Institute International Innovation Benchmarking Project
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-009
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The Regional Dynamics of Innovation: A comparative study of oil and gas industry development in Stavanger and Aberdeen
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-008
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Historic Imbalances and Great Debates: Do the Economists
See It Coming?
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-007
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Services Offshoring Working Group Final Report
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-006
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Offshoring Radiology Services to India
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-005
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From 'Black Gold' to 'Human Gold:' A Comparative Case Study of the Transition from a Resource-Based to a Knowledge Economy in Stavanger and Aberdeen
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-004
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Will the Bush Administration's 'GNEP' Strategy Help or Hurt the Prospects for a Nuclear Energy Revival?
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-003
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China's Energy Policy: Is Anybody Really Calling the Shots?
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-002
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Modular Production's Impact on Japan's Electronics Industry
MIT IPC Working Paper 06-001
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Universities, Innovation, and the Competitiveness of Local Economies: Summary Report from the Local Innovation Systems Project - Phase I
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-010
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Innovating State Practices: Migration, Development, and State Learning in the Moroccan Souss
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-009
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Many-to-One Matching without Substitutability
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-008
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Offshoring and Radiology
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-007
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How Computerizd Work and Globalization Shape Human Skill Demands
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-006
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Breathing Shoes and Complementarities: How Geox has rejuvenated the footwear industry
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-005
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Knowledge and capabilities in subcontractors' evolution: The Italian case
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-004
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Risk Sharing in Supplier Relations: An Agency Model for the Italian Air Conditioning Industry
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-003
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The Competent Production Supervisor: A model for effective performance
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-002
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Customer-Supplier Integration in the Italian High Precision Air Conditioning Industry
MIT IPC Working Paper 05-001
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Globalization, Employment, and Economic Development: A Briefing Paper
June 2004
MIT IPC Working Paper 04-007
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Diffusion of Academic R&D Capabilities as an Industrial Innovation Policy? – The Development of Israel's IT Industry
MIT IPC Working Paper 04-006
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Overcoming weak entrepreneurialinfrastructures foracademic spin-off ventures
April 2004
MIT IPC Working Paper 04-005
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Optoelectronics in Hamamatsu: In Search of a Photon Valley
March 2004
MIT IPC Working Paper 04-004
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Becoming High-tech: The reinvention of the mechanical engineering industry in Tampere, Finland
February 2004
MIT IPC Working Paper 04-003
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Why the Garden Club Couldn’t SaveYoungstown: Civic Infrastructure and Mobilization in Economic Crises
MIT IPC Working Paper 04-002
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Searching for Silicon Valley in the RustBelt: The Evolution of Knowledge Networks in Akron and Rochester
MIT IPC Working Paper 04-001
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Institutional Capacity and Strategic Adaptation in Less Favored Regions: A South Ostrobothnian University Network as a Case in Point
December 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-010
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Territorial Agglomeration as a Local Innovation Environment: The Case of a Digital media Agglomeration in Tampere, Finland
December 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-009
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The Future of Nuclear Energy
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-008
December 2003
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Thinking about technology: understanding the role of cognition and technical change
December 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-007
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The New Global Supply-Base: New Challenges for Local Suppliers in East Asia
October 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-006
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China, America, and the Global Competition for Industry
October 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-005
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BioTurku: "Newly" innovative? The rise of bio-pharmaceuticals and the biotech concentration in southwest Finland
September 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-004
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Changing Roles of Universities in Developing Entrepreneurial Regions: The Case of Finland and the US
September 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-003
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Exploring the Risks of Value Chain Modularity: Electronics Outsourcing During the Industry Cycle of 1992-2002
May 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-002
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What Really Goes on in Silicon Valley? Spatial Clustering and Dispersal in Modular Production Networks
April 2003
MIT IPC Working Paper 03-001
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Regional Economic Development: Comparative Case Studies in the US and Finland
September 2002
MIT IPC Working Paper 02-009
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Note on Corporate Citizenship in a Global Economy
August 2002
MIT IPC Working Paper 02-008
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The Promise and Perils of Globalization: The Case of Nike
July 2002
MIT IPC Working Paper 02-007
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Finnish City Reinvented: Tampere’s Path from Industrial to Knowledge Economy
June 2002
MIT IPC Working Paper 02-006, 32 pages
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Research Universities and National Security:Can Traditional Values Survive?
April 2002
MIT IPC Working Paper 02-005, 12 pages
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The Military as a Public Space – The Role of the IDF in the Israeli Software Innovation System
MIT-IPC Working Paper 02-004
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Modular Production Networks: A New American Model of Industrial Organization
March 2002
MIT-IPC Working Paper 02-003, 65 pages
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Globalization for Nation Building: Industrial Policy for High-Technology Products in Taiwan
January 2002
MIT-IPC Working Paper 02-002, 29 pages
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Chinese Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Global Integration
MIT-IPC Working Paper 02-001, 60 pages
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French Democracy Without Borders?
April 2001
MIT IPC Working Paper 01-006, 17 pages
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Transatlantic Defense Markets?
April 2001
MIT IPC Working Paper 01-005, 30 pages
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Digital Technologies and America's Industries
MIT IPC Working Paper 01-004, 3 pages
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Industry Co-Evolution and the Rise of a Shared Supply-base for Electronics Manufacturing
May/June 2001
This paper was published as chapter two in: Global Taiwan: Building Competitive Strengths in a New International Economy, Suzanne Berger and Richard Lester (eds.). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. 2005.
MIT IPC Working Paper 01-003
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Leading, Following or Cooked Goose: Explaining Innovation Successes and Failures in Taiwan's Electronics Industry
January 2001
MIT IPC Working Paper 01-002
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Firm Size and Technology Centrality in Industry-University Interactions
MIT IPC 01-001WP, 43 pages
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Il Caso Italiano and Globalization
November 2000
MIT IPC 00-015WP, 28 pages
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Chapter Two: How Silicon Valley Came to Be, from Martin Kenney, Understanding Silicon Valley, Understanding an Entrepreneurial Region, (c) 2000 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, by permission. All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this material may be made without written permission from the publisher, www.sup.org.
MIT IPC Working Paper 00-014
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Leveraging Capabilities: Models of Foreign Production in the Taiwanese Automotive Industry
MIT IPC Working Paper 00-013
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Globalization and Jobs in the Automotive Industry
MIT IPC Working Paper 00-012
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How Do We Define Value Chains and Production Networks?
MIT IPC Working Paper 00-011
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Diversity in Economic Organizations: An American Perspective on the Implications of European Integration for the Economic Performance of Japan
October 2000
MIT IPC 00-010WP, 8 pages
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Do Venture Capitalists Affect Commercialization Strategies at Start-ups?
June 2000
MIT IPC 00-009WP, 44 pages
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Globalization and Politics
July 2000
MIT IPC 00-008WP
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Growing Up and Moving Out: Globalization in the Taiwanese Textile, Apparel, and Automotive Industry
June 2000
MIT IPC 00-007WP, 28 pages
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Globalization and Reconstruction of National Capitalisms: German and American Automotive Firms Abroad
October 2000
This paper is not available on-line. Please email your request to ipc@mit.edu
MIT IPC 00-006WP
Does Industry Matter Differently in Different Places? A comparison of industry, corporate parent,and business segment effects in four OECD countries
April 2000
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MIT IPC 99-005WP, 41 pages.
IF You Can Use It: The Effect of Work/Family Practices in Biotechnology Firms on Commitment and Performance
April 2000
MIT IPC 00-004WP, 36 pages
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IPC Conference Summary on Globalization
January 2000
MIT IPC 00-003WP, 21 pages
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Institutions and Industrial Performance: The Pharmaceutical Sector in France, Germany, Britain and the U.S.
January 2000
MIT IPC 00-002WP, 47 pages
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The Emergence of Social Contract: Evidence from the Biotech Sector
January 2000
MIT IPC 00-001WP, 31 pages
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Global Benchmarking of the Strategic Management of Technology
December 1999
MIT IPC 99-007WP, 31 pages
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Organizational Integration in Situations of Uncertainty: A Case Study of MITRE Corporation
August 1999
MIT IPC 99-006WP, 151 pages
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Corporate Governance and the Politics of Property Rights in Germany
July 1999
MIT IPC 99-005WP, 46 pages
Innovation in Financial Services Case Study: Home Banking
March 1999
MIT IPC 99-004WP, 42 pages
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Innovation in Financial Services Case Study: Asset-Backed Securitization
February 1999
MIT IPC 99-003WP, 36 pages
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Congress and the Political Expansion of the Federal District Courts
May 1999
MIT IPC 99-002WP, 16 pages with tables
Globalization in the Motor Vehicle Industry: Final Conference Summary
January 1999
MIT IPC 99-001WP, 31 pages with tables
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Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm Level Evidence
December, 1998
MIT IPC 98-010WP, 84 pages with tables
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Work Reorganization in an Era of Restructuring: Trends in Diffusion and Impacts on Employee Welfare
November, 1998
MIT IPC 98-009WP, 31 pages with tables
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Corporate Governance in Germany: Toward a New Transational Politics
November, 1998
MIT IPC 98-008WP, 28 pages with tables.
Leaving Home: Three Decades of Internationalization by American Automobile Firms
November, 1998
MIT IPC 98-007WP, 43 pages with tables
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Decisions of Pharmaceutical Firms for New Product Development
September 1998
MIT IPC 98-006WP, 43 pages with tables
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Valuing Biopharmaceutical Alliances
September 1998
MIT IPC 98-005WP, 33 pages with tables
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Changing Wage Inequality and the U.S. States
July 1998
MIT IPC 98-004WP, 17 pages plus tables
Exporting and Productivity
July 1998
MIT IPC 98-003WP, 25 pages plus tables
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Export Entry and Exit by German Firms
April 1998
MIT IPC 98-002WP, 14 pages plus tables
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Understanding Increasing and Decreasing Wage Inequality
April 1988
MIT IPC 98-001WP, 24 pages plus tables
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Why Some Firms Export
MIT IPC 97-008WP, 39 pages
The Division of Labor, Coordination, and Integration: Case Studies in the Organization of Product Design
November 1997
MIT IPC 97-007WP, 32 pages
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Understanding the US Export Boom
March 1997
MIT IPC 97-006WP, 42 pages
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The Division of Labor, Coordination, and Integration: Case Studies in the Organization of Product Design in the Blue Jeans Industry
March 1997
MIT IPC 97-005WP, 42 pages
The Role of Local Unions in Workplace Restructuring: Evidence From the North American Integrated Steel Industry
February 1997
MIT IPC 97-004WP, 239 pages
Exports and Success in German Manufacturing
February 1997
MIT IPC 97-003WP, 27 pages
Getting Subsidies Right: U.S. Government Support to the Commercial Aircraft Industry
January 1997
MIT IPC 97-002WP, 48 pages
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Moving Innovation From the Margins to the Center for a New American Labor Movement
January 1997
MIT IPC 97-001WP, 44 pages
Exceptional Exporter Performance: Cause, Effect, or Both?
September 1996
MIT IPC 96-009WP, 31 pages
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Where Did All the Money Go? A Layman's Guide to Recent Trends in US Living Standards
July 1996
MIT IPC 96-008WP, 62 pages
Participative Bureaucracy and Productivity in Machined Products
March 1996
MIT IPC 96-007WP, 42 pages
What Works at Work: Overview and Assessment
February 1996
MIT IPC 96-006WP, 42 pages
Firm Size and Capabilities, Regional Agglomeration and the Adoption of New Technology?
February 1996
MIT IPC 96-005WP, 39 pages
Is the Make-Buy Decision Process a Core Competence?
January 1996
MIT IPC 96-004WP, 29 pages
A Case Study in Product Development. The 1984-199x Chevrolet Corvette.
January 1996
MIT IPC 96-003WP, 44 pages
Living with Ambiguity: An Interpretative Approach to New Product Development
February 1996
MIT IPC 96-002WP
With What Skills are Computers a Complement?
January 1996
MIT IPC 96-001WP, 29 pages
Conference Report on the International Conference on the Future of Industry in Advanced Societies
September 1995
MIT IPC 95-013WP, 54 pages
Effects of Work Restructuring on Employee Well-Being and Firm Performance: Evidence from Telecommunications Services
September 1995
MIT IPC 95-012WP, 51 pages
Information Technology as a Factor of Production: The Role of Differences Among Firms
September 1995
MIT IPC 95-011WP, 26 pages
Creating Value and Destroying Profits? Three Measures of Information Technology's Contributions
September 1995
MIT IPC 95-010WP, 33 pages
Launching a Renaissance in International Industrial Relations
September 1995
MIT IPC 95-009WP, 12 pages
Productivity and Convergence Across U.S. States and Industries
August 1995
MIT IPC 95-008AWP, 31 pages
Case Studies in the Organization of Product Development: The Cellular Telephone Equipment Industry
July 1995
MIT IPC 95-008W, 43 pages
Technology and Convergence
May 1995
MIT IPC 95-007BWP, 12 pages
Exporters, Skill Upgrading, and the Wage Gap
May 1995
MIT IPC 95-007AWP, 40 pages
Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsideration of the Evidence
May 1995
MIT IPC 95-007WP, 34 pages
Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement across Industries and Countries
March 1995
MIT IPC 95-006AWP, 32 pages
Exporters, Jobs and Wages in U.S. Manufacturing: 1976 – 1987
February 1995
MIT IPC 95-006WP, 43 pages
Structuring Inter-firm Relationships: A Multidimensional Approach
March 1995
MIT IPC 95-005WP, 46 pages
Service Provider or Institution Builder? An Assessment of the Role of Industrial Modernization Programs in U.S. Technology Policy
March 1995
MIT IPC 95-004WP, 43 pages
Exporters and Trade Liberalization in Mexico: Production Structure and Performance
February 1995
MIT IPC 95-003AWP, 33 pages
Using the Dunlop Report to Full Advantage: A Strategy for Achieving Mutual Gains
January 1995
MIT IPC 95-003WP, 16 pages
Recent Trends in US Manufacturing Performance
January 1995
MIT IPC 95-002WP, 31 pages
The Contributions of Alternative Forms of Work Organization and Employee Involvement to Manufacturing Performance Under Different Technological Regimes
January 1995
MIT IPC 95-001WP, 32 pages
Convergence or Diversity? National Models of Production and Distribution in a Global Economy
August 1994
MIT IPC 94-011WP, 38 pages
In From the Cold: Prospects for Conversion of the Defense Industrial Base
December 1994
MIT IPC 94-010WP, 35 pages
The Future Path and Consequences of US Earnings-Education Gap
November 1994
MIT IPC 94-009WP, 13 pages
Total Quality Management and Human Resource Systems: An International Comparison
October 1994
MIT IPC 94-008WP, 28 pages
From Bureaucracy to Enterprise? The Changing Jobs and Careers of Managers in Telecommunications Service
October 1994
MIT IPC 94-007WP, 43 pages
The Resurgence of the Local Union? Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Relations in the U.S. Steel Industry
September 1994
MIT IPC 94-006WP, 33 pages
Computers and Economic Growth: Firm-Level Evidence
August 1994
MIT IPC 94-005WP, 43 pages
Productivity Across Industries and Countries: Time Series Theory and Evidence
August 1994
MIT IPC 94-005AWP, 32 pages
Understanding Union Effects on Workplace Restructuring: The Historical Determinants of Local Union Capabilities
August 1994
MIT IPC 94-004WP, 22 pages
Industry Studies and American Industrial Performance
July 1994
MIT IPC 94-003WP, 44 pages
The Organization of Product Development
July 1994
MIT IPC 94-002WP, 37 pages
Incomes and Income Inequality Since 1970
April 1994
MIT IPC 94-001WP, 88 pages
The Rise and Fall of Collaborative Labor Relations in Chicago's Small-Firm Metalworking Network
December 1993
MIT IPC 93-012WP, 14 pages
International Trade, Multinational Corporations, and American Wage Divergence in the 1980s
November 1993
MIT IPC 93-010WP, 49 pages
Five Years After: A Preliminary Assessment of U.S. Industrial Performance Since Made in America
September 1993
MIT IPC 93-009WP, 22 pages
Education and Skills for the U.S. Workforce
June 1993
MIT IPC 93-007WP, 21 pages
Total Quality Management in the US and Japan: Lessons from Deming Prize and Baldrige Award Winners
August 1993
MIT IPC 93-006WP, 88 pages
Work Reorganization and Labor Relations in Telecommunications Services: A Case Study of BellSouth Corporation
August 1993
MIT IPC 93-004WP, 32 pages
Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes
May 1993
MIT IPC 93-003WP, 20 pages
Domestic Institutions, Free Trade, and the Pressures for National Convergence: US, Europe, and Japan
June 1993
MIT IPC 93-002WP, 102 pages
Is Information Systems Spending Productive? New Evidence and New Results
June 1993
MIT IPC 93-001WP, 31 pages