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Book Synopsis
The capital goods industries--machinery, electrical and electronic equipment, transport equipment (except automobiles), and instruments and related equipment--provide more than one-third of total U.S. exports. But in the past twenty years, these industries have displayed a continual weakening of their competitive position. In this study, Robert Eckley investigates this leading sector of the American economy and its competition for global markets by concentrating on case studies of seven companies that represent the principal segments of the capital goods industries.
The approach that Eckley takes is an empirical one, utilizing the experience of IBM, Boeing, General Electric, Eastman Kodak, Caterpillar, Cummins, and Cincinnati Milacron to illustrate the developments that have occurred in this sector of the world economy. The companies are all leaders within their industries, and also offer a representative variety of the products, processes, and labor organizations
Table of Contents
Capital Goods: America's Leading Sector Computers and Chips: IBM Attempts to Improve Its Responses Governments and Consortia: Boeing's Competition Electrical Equipment: GE Keeps Only the Winners Kodak's Lethargic Reaction to Competition in Photographic Equipment and Supplies Caterpillar's Ordeal: Foreign Exposure Brings Near Catastrophe Cummins: An Independent Tries to Stay on Top Cincinnati Milacron: How the U.S. Lost Machine Tool Leadership Can American Competitive Superiority Be Regained? Bibliography Index
