A Context for Industrial Policy: History, Performance and Strategic Role of the Machine Tool Industry in the United States

This article examines the problems of the machine tool industry in Britain by contrasting its performance and structure with the corresponding industry in Germany and the United States. The industry is one in which Britain's productivity, export performance and technology have lagged behind Germany and the United States since before the Second World War; these aspects are discussed in the first half of the article. The latter half considers how Britain's deficiencies in technical skills have affected the machine tool industry; the engineering industries as a whole are of course affected in varying degrees by similar factors.

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The strategic role of HR in the United States and China: relationships with HR outcomes and effects of management approaches

Strategic Talent Management ◽

10.1017/cbo9781139424585.012 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 197-223

Author(s):

John W. Boudreau ◽

Edward E. Lawler

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Strategic Role ◽

Management Approaches

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Technological Change in the Machine Tool Industry, 1840–1910

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700109155 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 414-443 ◽

Cited By ~ 328

Author(s):

Nathan Rosenberg

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Machine Tool ◽

Technological Change ◽

Production Function ◽

The United States ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Machine Tool Industry ◽

Labor Inputs ◽

Per Capita ◽

Quantitative Importance

Technological change has come to absorb an increasing share of the attention of the economist in recent years. Several attempts have been made to assess the quantitative importance of technological change, as opposed to increases in factor supplies, in accounting for the secular rise in per capita incomes in the United States. It appears, in all these studies, that technological changes (shifts in the production function) have been far more important than has the mere growth in the supplies of capital and labor inputs, as conventionally measured (movement along an existing production function). In a sense, this should be cause for deep concern, since the comparative neglect of the process of technological change (with the major exceptions until very recent years, of the works of Marx, Schumpeter, and Usher) suggests a serious malallocation of our intellectual resources. If the studies of such people as Abramovitz and Solow are even approximately correct with respect to orders of magnitude, then the contribution of technological change to rising per capita incomes absolutely dwarfs the contribution from a rising but qualitatively unchanging stock of capital. It would appear that we have indeed been playing Hamlet without the Prince.

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The Role of Gender and Sensation Seeking in Film Choice

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105.20.3.97 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 97-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Smita C. Banerjee ◽

Kathryn Greene ◽

Marina Krcmar ◽

Zhanna Bagdasarov ◽

Dovile Ruginyte

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Negative Mood ◽

Positive Mood ◽

The United States ◽

High Arousal ◽

Subject Design ◽

Happy Mood

This study demonstrates the significance of individual difference factors, particularly gender and sensation seeking, in predicting media choice (examined through hypothetical descriptions of films that participants anticipated they would view). This study used a 2 (Positive mood/negative mood) × 2 (High arousal/low arousal) within-subject design with 544 undergraduate students recruited from a large northeastern university in the United States. Results showed that happy films and high arousal films were preferred over sad films and low-arousal films, respectively. In terms of gender differences, female viewers reported a greater preference than male viewers for happy-mood films. Also, male viewers reported a greater preference for high-arousal films compared to female viewers, and female viewers reported a greater preference for low-arousal films compared to male viewers. Finally, high sensation seekers reported a preference for high-arousal films. Implications for research design and importance of exploring media characteristics are discussed.

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