Publisher's Synopsis
With the East opening up to economic and industrial restructuring at whirlwind speed, this book provides a valuable assessement of the changes that have taken place and what the future holds. Identifying key policy and managerial tasks for the 1990s, it examines the pace of restructuring and the competiveness of European industry through a series of papers commissioned specifically for this volume. Rather than rehashing old and well-worn paths of analysis, this work presents new empirical findings, new conceptual insights, and new implications for the management of enterprises and public policies, from a multidisciplinary perspective.;Contributing to the book are: Robert Ballance (Head of the Industrial Statistics and Sectoral Surveys Branch, UNIDO), David B. Jemison (Univ of Texas), Ingo Walter, Roy C. Smith, and Thomas A. Pugual (New York Univ), Edwin Mansfield (Univ of Pennsylvania), Andrew Pettigrew (Warwick Business School), Horst Siebert (Institute fuer Weltwirtschaft), John Vickers (Nuffield College, Oxford), Karel Cool, Yves Doz, H. Landis Gabel, Phillip Haspesiagh, Damien J. Niven, Theo Vermaelen (all at the European Institute of Business Administration), and Paul Geroski (London Business School).
