Technological Innovation, Industrial Organisation and Comparative Advantages of Latin American Metalworking Industries

Jorge Katz

A chapter in Technological Capability in the Third World, 1984, pp 113-136 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During the course of the past decade I enjoyed the rare opportunity of conducting a vast exploration into the economics of technological change in manufacturing firms of the six largest Latin American countries. Jointly with a team of economists and engineers we examined from a historical perspective — that is, covering various decades of operation — the technological and overall economic performance of well over fifty industrial firms, carefully recording and studying their behaviour both from an economic and an engineering point of view.

Keywords: Production Planning; Production Organisation; Learning Sequence; Technical Knowledge; Search Effort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17487-4_6

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