In 1989, the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity produced the Made in America report. One of the recommendations of Made in America was to establish the Industrial Performance Center (IPC) to carry on the interdisciplinary investigations of industrial productivity, innovation, and competitiveness that the Commission had begun. Established in 1991, with the help of a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the IPC has brought together faculty and students from all five MIT Schools in research collaborations on industry. Since its inception, the faculty, students and affiliates of the IPC have produced numerous books, articles, papers and other publications that have advanced the understanding of strategic, technological, and organizational developments in a broad range of industries.
Book | April 27, 2021
Compressed Development
This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development.
Working Paper | January 25, 2019
Globalization and Jobs in the Automotive Industry
As we enter the new millennium, globalization has emerged as one of the most salient and powerful forces shaping domestic and world economies. Accordingly, a debate has emerged in recent years over the causes and consequences of globalization.
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
Exploring the Risks of Value Chain Modularity: Electronics Outsourcing During the Industry Cycle of 1992-2002
This paper focuses mainly on the issues of supply-base concentration and increased buyer-supplier lock-in through an examination of recent trends in what is perhaps the best case of value chain modularity, product-level electronics.
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
The 2010 National Organizations Survey: Examining the Relationships Between Job Quality and the Domestic and International Sourcing of Business Functions by United States Organizations
This paper presents the results from the 2010 National Organizations Survey (NOS). The survey is representative of U.S. full-time jobs.
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
Services Offshoring Working Group Final Report
Although the scale of services offshoring has likely been modest so far, it will inevitably grow and stimulate changes in the United States economy — both positive and negative — through the relocation of work and the internationalization of innovative activities.
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
Direct Measurement of Global Value Chains: Collecting Product- and Firm-Level Statistics on Value Added and Business Function Outsourcing and Offshoring
Global value chains (GVCs) have changed the assumptions behind current data regimes and statistical systems are struggling to catch up. In this chapter, we confront the obvious. It will be exceedingly difficult to fill the data gaps caused by global economic integration without new data.
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
Modular Production’s Impact on Japan’s Electronics Industry
This chapter examines the process of global integration through the lens of national industrial models – the collection of routines and strategies generally shared by corporate managers in a particular society.
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
Value Chains, Networks and Clusters: Reframing the Global Automotive Industry
In this article, we apply global value chain (GVC) analysis to recent trends in the global automotive industry, with special attention paid to the case of North America.
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
From Commodity Chains to Value Chains: Interdisciplinary Theory Building in an Age of Globalization
Recent changes in the global economy, especially the rise of East Asia as an economic force, have rendered static notions of permanent dependency and underdevelopment obsolete.
Book | August 30, 2018
The Dynamics of Local Learning in Global Value Chains Experiences from East Asia
This book investigates the process and mechanism of the capability development of East Asian local manufacturers, which has underpinned their phenomenal rise in the world's competitive landscape of industrial production during the last few decades.
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
Compressed Development
Working Paper | August 30, 2018
Globalization and Jobs in the Automotive Industry
As we enter the new millennium, globalization has emerged as one of the most salient and powerful forces shaping domestic and world economies