Corporate Restructuring and Industrial Research and Development

by Institute of Medicine, Kenneth Flamm, National Academy of Engineering, et al.

The debate about the effects of corporate restructuring on industrial investment in research and development has important implications for public policy, since research and development is vital to the nation's ability to compete in the global marketplace. Researchers worry that debt service will cut research and development funds; financiers argue that restructuring improves corporate efficiency without affecting research and development expenditures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309041864
• ISBN13: 9780309041867
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 160 Pages