Improving manufacturing performance in South Africa : the report of the Industrial Strategy Project /

The poor performance of South Africa's manufacturing sector looms large in the litany of problems bedevilling the economy. Improving Manufacturing Performance in South Africa summarises the findings of the Industrial Strategy Project, a major research project undertaken to investigate and analy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Industrial Strategy Project, International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Otros Autores: Joffe, Avril
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rondebosch, South Africa : Ottawa, Canada : UCT Press ; International Development Research Centre, 1995.
Temas:
Industrial policy > South Africa.
Production management > South Africa.
Industrial management > South Africa.
Politique industrielle > Afrique du Sud.
Production > Gestion > Afrique du Sud.
Gestion d'entreprise > Afrique du Sud.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Industrial management
Industrial policy
Production management
Aufsatzsammlung
Industrie
Industriepolitik
Management
Produktion
Industriële ontwikkeling.
Productie.
Prestatiebeoordeling.
South Africa
Südafrika (Staat)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • SECTION 1
  • MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE
  • The South African Growth Model
  • Output
  • Exports
  • Investment
  • Productivity
  • A New Context
  • OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES
  • What is an Industrial Strategy
  • Objectives
  • Creating Employment
  • Increasing Investment
  • Raising Productivity
  • Improving Trade Performance
  • Interlinked Objectives
  • Strategies
  • Specialisation: Moving up the Value Chain
  • The Beneficiation of Natural Resouces
  • Targeting Key CapabilitiesEmpowerment for Productivity Growth
  • The Inter-relationship Between Strategic Goals: An Example Drawn From the Pulp and Paper Filiere
  • INDUSTRIAL POLICIES
  • A Policy Framework
  • Fostering the Role of Markets
  • Enhancing Capabilities
  • Building Institutional Capacity
  • International Trade
  • Trade Performance
  • Trade Policy: A Brief Overview
  • Towards a New Trade Policy
  • Industrial Structure
  • Introduction
  • Market Structure
  • Corporate Governance
  • Small and Medium-scale and Micro-enterprise
  • Human Resource Development & Workplace OrganisationISP Strategy and Policy Proposals
  • The Role of Institutional Arrangements
  • Sequencing and Financing
  • Enhancing Technological Capability
  • Why Have a Technology Policy?
  • The Current Situation in South Africa
  • Policies to support Technological Capability Building in Industry
  • BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY
  • Introduction
  • The State
  • The Parastatals
  • Multi-partite Institutions
  • SECTION 2
  • MARKETS, OWNERSHIP & MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE
  • 1 Market Structure
  • 1.1 Trade Policy as Competition Policy1.2 SMEs in Concentrated Markets
  • 1.3 Collusion in Oligopolistic Markets
  • 1.4 Policy Proposals
  • 2 Ownership Structure
  • 2.1 The Manufacturing Groups: Origins and Structure
  • 2.2 Conglomeration and Entrepreneurship: The Separation of Ownership and Control
  • 2.3 Manufacturing Within the Conglomerates
  • 2.4 The Independent Manufacturing Groups
  • 2.5 Conglomerate Groups Versus Independent Groups
  • 2.6 Policy and Concentrated Ownership
  • HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT & WORKPLACE INNOVATION: AN INTELLIGENT PRODUCTION STRATEGY FOR INDUSTRIAL REGENERATIONIntroduction
  • 1 Low-productivity, Poor Growth: The Current Situation
  • 1.1 The Skills Profile in South African Manufacting Firms
  • 1.2 Work Organisation in South African Manufacturing Firms
  • 1.3 Plant-level Governace and Collective Bargaining
  • 2 An Intelligent Production Strategy
  • 2.1 Constant Skill Aquisition
  • 2.2 Reorganisation of Work
  • 2.3 Broadening the Notion of Productivity
  • 2.4 Democratic Practices in the Workplace

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