In most Third World nations, importing technology from other countries is considered vital to industrialization and economic development. This book examines the processes of technology transfer and development by tracing how Hindustan Machine Tools-a public enterprise in India-successfully collaborated with manufacturers from industrialized nations in its growth from a single factory to a diversified industrial complex. The author critically analyzes the company's overall strategies for diversification and expansion and its approaches to selecting, acquiring, absorbing, and generating technology and to developing appropriate management. He also points to important relationships between aEUROoepolicy efficiencyaEURO and aEUROoeadministrative efficiencyaEURO and discusses socioeconomic and cultural factors that can obstruct the successful development and operation of an industrial enterprise in a developing country.
- ISBN10 0865319340
- ISBN13 9780865319349
- Publish Date 24 November 1982
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 10 May 1991
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Westview Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 270
- Language English