1st Edition
The American Steel Industry Problems, Challenges, Perspectives
By Luc Kiers
Copyright 1980
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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What is the cause of the American steel industry's deplorable situation today? Troubled in many areas—competition from imports, technology implementation, cost and utilization of raw materials, investment policy, philosophy of management, and union attitudes, to name only a few—can the industry survive? These are the questions Dr. Kiers confronts in this book. Unless answers can be found, he... Read more
Introduction -- The American Steel Industry: An Appraisal -- The Japanese Steel Industry: Background and Silent Dynamics -- Imports in Perspective -- The Technology Gap -- AMSTEC/JANESTEP: A Comparison of Two Hypothetical Steel Companies -- A Plan for Action -- The American Steel Industry: Expansion Programs, 1980 and 1983 -- Interview with Frank B. Gibney -- The MacNeil/Lehrer Report “Steel Crisis” -- Japan’s Steel Industry: An Ultramodern Complex
Biography
Luc Kiers has been an international business consultant for over forty years, most recently in the steel industry.
