What is Good for General Motors is Bad for America: The 2009 Bailout Through the Lens of Heskett’s Design-Oriented Theory of Value

This research is an applied case study of the 2009 General Motors bailout using John Heskett’s economics as a starting point for analysis. In 1993, Heskett (1937–2014) wrote in International Design that GM’s myopic design vision at the corporate strategy level led to the company’s stagnation and an...

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Published in:	She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation
Main Author:	Cameron M. Weber
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
Subjects:	General Motors Institutional economics Design as strategy Asset specificity Rent-seeking Creative destruction Economic nationalism
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872616300375