Time Horizons and Technology Investments

Time Horizons and Technology Investments
Author: National Academy of Engineering
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 119
Release: 1992-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0309046475

It is frequently argued that U.S. corporations have shorter time horizons for planning and investment than their Japanese and German competitors. This argument, though widely accepted in studies of U.S. competitiveness, has rarely been examined in depth. Time Horizons and Technology Investments explores the evidence that some U.S. corporations consistently select projects biased toward short-term return and addresses factors influencing the time-related preferences of U.S. corporate managers in selecting projects for investment. It makes recommendations to policymakers and managers about policies to mitigate negative external influences and about strategies to remove internal biases toward noncompetitive decisions.

Corporate Time Horizons

Corporate Time Horizons
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1990
Genre: Consolidation and merger of corporations
ISBN:

American Multinationals in Europe

American Multinationals in Europe
Author: Phil Almond
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2006-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199274630

This book addresses some of the major contemporary issues in comparative business and employment relations. At its core are the findings of a four-year exploration of the management of employment relations in American multinational companies in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and Spain. Specifically, it looks at what is distinctively "American" about US multinationals and their management of human resources across national borders.

Joint Economic Report

Joint Economic Report
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1992
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Some years include minority, supplemental, and dissenting views.

Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy

Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy
Author: Ronald W. Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136328424

More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations and the US state in the development of foreign policies related to globalization. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this work explores the role of corporations in using US foreign policies to advance the interests of transnational capital in a wide range of contexts, including: how US government policies have contributed to the globalization of production and finance the ways in which transnational corporations have influenced the US relationship with China, a crucial linkage in the new era of transnational accumulation how transnational corporate power has shaped capital-labour relations, humanitarian intervention, structural adjustment policies, low-intensity democracy and the G20 summits the "corporate centrism" of the Obama Administration, whose policies have been consistent with the growing power of transnational capital in US foreign policymaking the politics and consequences of the embedded relationship between various sectors of the transnational capitalist class, global institutions and the US state, including the limits and contradictions of this relationship during the ongoing capitalist crisis. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of both US foreign policy and international political economy.