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Chapter 1 - Operations and Competitiveness


Company Web Sites



      Caltex Petroleum

http://www.caltex.com





      Daimler-Chrysler

      http://www1.daimlerchrysler.com/



      Disney

      http://www.disney.com/



      Eddie Bauer

      http://www.eddiebauer.com/


      Eveready Battery
      www.energizer.com
      http://www.evereadyindustries.com/facilities.htm



      Federal Express

      http://www.fedex.com/



      Ford

      http://www.ford.com/



      General Electric

      http://www.ge.com/



      General Motors

      http://www.gm.com/



      IBM

      http://www.ibm.com/



      Lands' End

      http://www.landsend.com/



      Li & Fung

      http://www.lifung.com/





      L.L. Bean

      http://www.llbean.com/



      Motorola

      http://www.mot.com/


      New Balance
      http://www.newbalance.com


      Pizza Hut
      www.yum.com



      Whirlpool

      http://www.whirlpool.com/




Resource Web Sites



Historical Figures



      Adam Smith

      http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/het/smith/index.htm



      Eli Whitney

http://www.eliwhitney.org/


      Frederick Taylor

      http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/TRIVIABITS/FredWTaylor.html
      http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/taylor.htm
      http://melbecon.unimelb.edu.au/het/taylor/sciman.htm



      Elton Mayo

      http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/hawthorne_01.html



E-Business




      The E-conomy Project
      http://e-conomy.berkeley.edu/index.html



      Forrester Research

      www.forrester.com



      Computerworld

      http://www.computerworld.com


      B2B Online Trading
      http://itresearch.forbes.com/rlist/orgtypegrp/ANALYST/B2B-Online-Trading.html




Globalization



      Bureau of Labor Statistics

      http://www.bls.gov/... [continues]

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