1st Edition

International Competitiveness in Latin America and East Asia

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1993. Latin America is undergoing a process of profound economic and social change. The industrial import substitution that continued for several decades was quantitatively successful in terms of industrialization but - like inward-oriented industrialization in the socialist countries - failed to raise the economies of the region to international productivity levels. The attempt... Read more
Introduction and Summary; Chapter 1 Latin America – Industrialization without Vision, Klaus Esser; Chapter 2 Shaping Industrial Competitiveness in Chile the Case of the Chilean Wood-processing Industry, Dirk Messner; Chapter 3 Comprehensive Modernization on the Shop-Floor, Jörg Meyer-Stamer; Chapter 4 Technological Modernization Processes in Korean Small- and Medium-Scale Industry – a New Success Story?, Wolfgang Hillebrand;

Biography

Klaus Esser, Wolfgang Hillebrand, Dirk Messner, Jörg Meyer-Stamer