Chemicals and Long-Term Economic Growth: Insights from the Chemical Industry

edited by Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg, is now available from John Wiley & Sons, Publishers.

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Table of Contents listed below.

		Table of Contents	page

		PREFACE	vii
I.		ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE	1
	1	Introduction (Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg)	3

II.		COUNTRY OVERVIEWS	25
	2	On the Making of Competitive Advantage: The Development of the Chemical Industries of Britain and Germany Since 1850 (Johann Peter Murmann and Ralph Landau)	27
	3	Chemicals: A U.S. Success Story (Ashish Arora and Nathan Rosenberg)	71
	4	The Japanese Puzzle (Takashi Hikino, Tsutomo Harada. Yoshio Tokuhisa and James Yoshida)	103

III.		INNOVATION AT THE HEART OF THE INDUSTRY	137
	5	The Process of Innovation in the Chemical Industry (Ralph Landau)	139
	6	The Impact of the Legal System on Innovation (Tom Campbell and Ralph Landau)	181
	7	Technological Change in Chemicals: The Role of University-Industry Relations (Nathan Rosenberg)	193

IV.		SURVEYING THE LEVELS OF THE MATRIX	231
	8	The Industry Evolves Within a Political, Social, and Public Policy Context :A Brief Look at Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States (Micheline Horstmeyer)	233
	9	Monetary, Fiscal, and Trade Policies in the Development of the Chemical Industry (Barry Eichehngreen)	265
	10	Finance and the Chemical Industry (Marco Da Rin)	307
	11	Structure and Performance of the Chemical Industry under Regulation (Kian Esteghamat)	341
	12	Evolution of Industry Structure in the Chemical Industry (Ashish Arora and Alfonso Gambardella)	379
	13	The Evolution of Corporate Capability and Corporate Strategy and Structure Within the World's Largest Chemical Firms: The Twentieth Century in Perspective (Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Takashi Hikino, and David Mowery)	415

V.		THE MODERN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE	459
	14	Connecting Performance and Competitiveness with Finance:A Study of the Chemical Industry (Albert Richards)	461
	15	Conclusions (Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg)	515

		ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS	523
		INDEX	527

Chemicals and Long-Term Economic Growth: Insights from the Chemical Industry

edited by Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg, is now available from John Wiley & Sons, Publishers.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

vii

I.

ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE

1

II.

COUNTRY OVERVIEWS

25

III.

INNOVATION AT THE HEART OF THE INDUSTRY

137

IV.

SURVEYING THE LEVELS OF THE MATRIX

231

V.

THE MODERN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

459

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

523

INDEX

527