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 | January 22, 2019
The Productive Edge: How U.S. Industries Are Pointing the Way to a New Era of Economic Growth
Analyzes the causes of the national decline in industrial productivity and discusses organizational and individual changes required to increase productivity
Book | January 22, 2019
The New Dollars and Dreams
Frank Levy's classic Dollars and Dreams offered an incisive analysis of the dramatic changes then taking place in the American standard of living. As wage stagnation and rising income inequality in the 1970s and early 80s began to undermine Americans' traditional economic optimism, Levy's book provided the first diagnosis of what he called the quiet depression.
Book | January 22, 2019
After Lean Production: Evolving Practices in the Auto Industry
In this book, industrial relations experts from eleven countries consider the state of the industry worldwide. They are particularly interested in assessing whether the loudly heralded model of lean production initiated by Toyota has become pervasive.
Book | January 22, 2019
Made by Hong Kong
Based on the results of a major year-long study, Made By Hong Kong analyzes the resources and handicaps of a significant set of Hong Kong industries as they attempt to utilize a diverse and strong set of new assets such as new technologies and a new proximity to China.
Book | January 22, 2019
National Diversity and Global Capitalism
The contributions to the volume present a challenge to conventional views on the extent and scope of globalization as well as to predictions of the imminent disappearance of the nation-state's leverage over the economy.
Book | January 22, 2019
Teaching the New Basic Skills
Teaching the New Basic Skills shows how to avoid such a future. By telling stories of real people in real businesses and real schools, the book shows the skills students need to get decent jobs and how schools can change to teach those skills.
Book | January 22, 2019
Broken Ladders: Managerial Careers in the New Economy
Broken Ladders reports on the employment security, advancement prospects, skills, and wages of managers in a wide range of firms and industries.
Book | January 22, 2019
Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy
By collaborating, the contributors seek to clarify the dynamics of employment relations across the world today, and to set the terms of reference for a new generation of international-comparative employment research.
Book | January 22, 2019
Beyond Individualism
This book takes up the urgent question of how, in a time of economic crisis and constraint, we can meet the pent-up demand for spending on our nation’s neglected poor, infirm, and disadvantaged, old and young.
Book | January 22, 2019
The Mutual Gains Enterprise
The Mutual Gains Enterprise is an urgent and compelling call for workplace reform, showing how American business can indeed attain world-class, sustainable competitive advantage - in addition to securing more rewarding employment for workers.
Book | January 22, 2019
Made In America: Regaining the Productive Edge
Based on interviews with hundreds of workers, this vivid portrait not only identifies weaknesses and problems in management and productivity, but offers workable solutions for making American business work well again.
Working Paper | January 22, 2019
Brazil’s Role in the Biopharmaceutical Global Value Chain
Brazil’s biopharmaceutical market has experienced dramatic changes since 2000, with improvements in the performance of local firms, as well as an expansion in consumer demand and productive capacity, which have made the country the sixth largest market in the world.