Development, Technology and Flexibility
Brazil Faces the Industrial Divide
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2026
300 pages
978-1-040-94687-9 (ISBN)
Description
Development, Technology and Flexibility (1992) is concerned with forecasting the use of innovation within manufacturing industries. It assesses the factors that inhibit and facilitate the implementation of new technologies and organisational techniques. The focus of the study is on Brazilian industry, whose mixture of advanced and traditional social and economic structures makes its experience relevant to many other regions of the world. Based on interviews with over a hundred leading firms, it examines Brazilian innovators' views as to the prospects for growth, the changing nature of competition, and the likely rates of diffusion for such 'modernising innovations' as computer-aided design, microelectronic process controllers, just-in-time and quality control.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
25,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-94687-9 (9781040946879)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Joao Carlos Ferraz | Howard Rush | Ian Miles
Development, Technology and Flexibility
Brazil Faces the Industrial Divide
Book
approx. 07/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€155.99
Not yet published
Persons
Joao Carlos Ferraz, Howard Rush and Ian Miles
Content
1. Introduction and Analytical Framework 2. The Use of Modernising Innovations: Analysing Circumstances and Prospects 3. The Brazilian Style of Development 4. Changes in Industrial Structure, Growth and Competitiveness: Expectations for the Future 5. Determinants of Innovation 6. The Diffusion of Modernising Innovations 7. The Implications of Modernising Innovations 8. Employment and Skills 9. Degradation, Continuation or Transformation?
