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Terkla, David Gabriel was born on May 12, 1953 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Louis Gabriel and Phyllis Jean Terkla.
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Startup Factories: Leading Edge Practices and Regional Advantage for High-Performing Firms
(The authors chart the experience of start-up factories in...)
The authors chart the experience of start-up factories in adopting high performance management practices and provide insights into how US manufacturing can improve labor productivity and job quality in the coming years. Based on an extensive study of 48 new branch plants-that began operating between 1978 and 1990, this book explains how best practice manufacturing companies are raising productivity and lowering unit costs by introducing innovative high performance management practices. Start-Up Factories answers six key questions related to high performance management practices in the American workplace and provides criteria for evaluating certain strategies. In doing so, it demonstrates to economists labor management professionals, and policy makers that there is a set of principles about how to rebuild management systems in ways that simultaneously provide higher rates of growth in business productivity and a greater sharing of these productivity gains with workers.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195147472/?tag=2022091-20
Invisible Factors in Local Economic Development
(While national trends shape the general economic context ...)
While national trends shape the general economic context for growth, industrial performance also depends critically on conditions particular to local areas. This book develops the idea that the interaction between business strategies and local economic environments has a substantial influence on the success or failure of local mature industries. Arguing that the poor performance of local economic development policies--measured by their ability to stimulate investment, create jobs, and expand the tax base--can be improved through a better understanding of this interaction, the authors stress the importance of identifying and promoting "invisible factors," such as worker attitudes and small-scale entrepreneurship, in development strategies for mature industries. They document their findings through statistical models and micro-studies in a local economy they use as a case--the Montachusett region of central Massaschusetts--and argue that it is better to replace traditional policies of tax breaks and subsidies to business with a comprehensive local growth strategy targeted at specific firms that can take advantage of the invisible factors in economic development.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195049659/?tag=2022091-20
David Gabriel Terkla
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Bachelor, Williams College, 1975; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1977; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1979.
Career
Assistant professor Boston University, 1979—1987. Associate professor University Massachusetts, Boston, 1987—1994, professor, since 1994, chairman department, 1994—2000. Member social science advisory committee New England Fisheries Management Council, since 1998.
Member American lobster socioeconomic subcommittee Atlantic States Fisheries Commission, since 2000.
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Startup Factories: Leading Edge Practices and Regional Advantage for High-Performing Firms
(The authors chart the experience of start-up factories in...)
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Invisible Factors in Local Economic Development
(While national trends shape the general economic context ...)
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Startup Factories: Leading Edge Practices and Regional Advantage for High-Performing Firms
Membership
Member American Economics Association.
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Married Dawn Rose Geronimo, August 30, 1975. Children: Michael, Heather.
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Democrat
Education
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1975
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1977
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1979
Career
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1979 - 1987
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1987 - 1994