8th World Productivity Congress, Stockholm, Sweden (1993)

The Market Economy – The Strategy for Growth

Date: 23^rd-27^th May 1993

Patron: H.M.King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

Key Speakers:

• H.E.Patricio Aylwin, President of Chile
• Mr. Carl Bildt, Prime Minister of Sweden
• Prof. Michael Porter

Registration Fee: SEK8,125

583 participants plus 61 spouses and staff

This Congress was organised in partnership with the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

At the time, Tor Dahl was President of WCPS, and Martin T. Tveit was President of WAPS (having been appointed upon the death of Dr. Krish Pennathur in 1992).

At the Stockholm Congress, Dr. A.N. Saxena from India was elected as President of WAPS but had to decline the appointment due to other commitments. Dr. Scott Sink, who had been elected as Vice-President was therefore appointed President of WAPS.

Stockholm declaration

The best society can offer to all people in the world is: Freedom, Ethics and Competence which will secure peace and prosperity. We, the members of The World Confederation of Productivity Science and the World Academy of Productivity Science, meeting in plenum at the Eighth World Productivity Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, make this a commitment of our professional and personal lives.