Industries category: 12638 books
Climate Change, Service Economy and Industry
With Empirical Cases & Theories
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
This book shows how industries perceive weather as they pose their positioning in climate change adaptation. With empirical analysis, this books extends policy discussion. Weather and climate related industries are clearly knowledge intensive service sectors that have not blossomed yet.
Holding...
Multimodal Safety Management and Human Factors
Crossing the Borders of Medical, Aviation, Road and Rail Industries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Safety management and human factors disciplines are often regarded as subjective and nebulous. This perhaps stems from a variety of, sometimes disparate, activities in the realms of education, industry and research. Aviation is one of the safety-critical industries that has led the development of...
by Eli M. Noam
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
The concentration of private power over media has been the subject of intense public debate around the world. Critics have long feared waves of mergers creating a handful of large media firms that would hold sway over public opinion and endanger democracy and innovation. But others believe with equal...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Interest in the phenomenon known as "lean" has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first volume to provide an academically rigorous overview of the field of lean management, introducing the reader to the application of lean in diverse application areas, from the production floor...
Energy and the Financial System
What Every Economist, Financial Analyst, and Investor Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
The modern financial system was developed to support the rapid economic growth that took off about 200 years ago with the phenomenal amounts of cheap energy made available through the exploitation of fossil fuels. As a result, its viability is completely dependent upon the continuation of that growth....
Media Corporate Entrepreneurship
Theories and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book examines corporate entrepreneurship start-ups in the media industries and provides a timely solution to fill in the gap of academic as well as practical knowledge in this regard. It brings together new media venturing practices in the west and east and covers new media opportunities in various...
Smartland Korea
Mobile Communication, Culture, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The dramatic advancement of cellphone technology has fundamentally changed our daily lives. Smartphones and their applications have created new capital for information and communication technology corporations and changed the way people communicate. Because of an interesting awareness of the significance...
Creative Labour
Working in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
Creative Labour provides an insight into the unique employment issues affecting workers in film, television, theatre, arts, music, radio and new media.
In the UK alone, more than 1 million people work in the creative industries, generating billions of pounds in exports each year. These workers...
Energy and Materials in Three Sectors of the Economy
A Dynamic Model with Technological Change as an Endogenous Variable
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Originally published in 1979, this study develops a model that explains the rate of adoption of an innovation in an industry - i.e the impact of technological change upon the utilization of selected materials and energy resources in the steel, alluminium and metal can industries. Each of the three...
Sustainability and the Social Fabric
Europe’s New Textile Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact. Padovani and Whittaker offer a unique exploration of the textile industry in Europe from the perspective...
by Michael Rimmington, Clare Williams, Alison Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Entrepreneurship is the engine that drives any successful industry or economy. In the rapidly evolving hospitality, tourism and leisure sector worldwide this is particularly true. This new text is designed to develop a greater understanding of the process and context for entrepreneurship as well as...
Human Factors in the Chemical and Process Industries
Making it Work in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Human Factors in the Chemical and Process Industries: Making it Work in Practice is a comprehensive overview of human factors within this sector, focusing on the practical application. It has been written by acknowledged industry experts from the Keil Centre, which is a leading practice of chartered...
by Eon-Seong Lee, Dong-Wook Song
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Knowledge management has been widely applied to various industries as a good strategy to help improve firms’ performance. As globalisation accelerates and international trade increases more and more, maritime transport operations have become one of the vitalest industries to receive large attention...
Aviation Investment
Economic Appraisal for Airports, Air Traffic Management, Airlines and Aeronautics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Aviation Investment uniquely addresses investment appraisal methods across the key industries that make up the aviation sector, including the airports, air traffic management, airline and aircraft manufacturing - or aeronautic - industries. It is a practice-oriented book where methods are presented...