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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This book provides support to academics as well as managers, who deal with policies and strategies related to work issues. Effective work practices and good employee relations are a real necessity of nowadays organizations, as they can help to reduce absenteeism, employee turnover and organizational...
Pricing and the Newsvendor Problem. A Review with Extensions
A Review with Extensions
Language: German
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 2,0, Universität Mannheim (Lehrstuhl für ABWL und Logistik, Prof. Minner), Veranstaltung: Seminar, 6 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Newsboy-Problem ist eine feste Größe...
Deindustrialization and Reindustrialization in Romania
Economic Strategy Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book analyses the multidimensional condition of the Romanian industrial landscape, which played host to a multitude of demo-economic, financial, trade, and trans- and inter-sectoral development practices before the intense period of European deindustrialisation. The authors stress the need to...
Making Innovation Last: Volume 2
Sustainable Strategies for Long Term Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Making Innovation Last considers the long term success of a firm. Authored by a trio of top international scholars who present pioneering new work on what it takes to create long term growth, the book examines the internal conditions that are likely to encourage sustainable innovation, as well as what a culture of innovation should look like.
Quality, IT and Business Operations
Modeling and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This book discusses action-oriented, concise and easy-to-communicate goals and challenges related to quality, reliability, infocomm technology and business operations. It brings together groundbreaking research in the area of software reliability, e-maintenance and big data analytics, highlighting...
The Network Organization
A Governance Perspective on Structure, Dynamics and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book explores the basic traits of inter-organizational networks, examining the interplay between structure, dynamics, and performance from a governance perspective. The book assumes a novel theoretical angle based on the interpretation of networks as multiple systems, and advances the theory...
The Shrinking American Middle Class
The Social and Cultural Implications of Growing Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The United States lost one third of its factory jobs in the past decade as jobs were outsourced offshore, mostly to Asia. Jobs that require a college degree are next to go. China will award six times as many degrees this year as they did ten years ago and any job that can be digitized will be 'tradable'....
Industrie 4.0
Wie cyber-physische Systeme die Arbeitswelt verändern
Language: German
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Dieses praxisorientierte Fachbuch informiert eingehend über die Entwicklung der Industrie 4.0. Die faszinierenden technologischen Möglichkeiten und die komplette Verzahnung von Produktions- und Logistikprozessen erscheinen als eine große wirtschaftliche Chance und bergen dennoch auch Risiken. Wie...
Cognitive Radio Policy and Regulation
Techno-Economic Studies to Facilitate Dynamic Spectrum Access
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
This book offers a timely reflection on how the proliferation of advanced wireless communications technologies, particularly cognitive radio (CR) can be enabled by thoroughly-considered policy and appropriate regulation. It looks at the prospects of CR from the divergent standpoints of technological...
Customer Loyalty and Supply Chain Management
Business-to-Business Customer Loyalty Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Many business-to-business (B2B) managers think that customers act rationally and base decisions mostly on price, customer loyalty isn’t considered. Companies outsource various activities, which enable them to improve efficiency, reduce costs, focus more on core competencies and improve their innovation...
Electric Vehicle Business Models
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
This contributed volume collects insights from industry professionals, policy makers and researchers on new and profitable business models in the field of electric vehicles (EV) for the mass market. This book includes approaches that address the optimization of total cost of ownership. Moreover, it...
Research and Technology Management in the Electricity Industry
Methods, Tools and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Technologies such as renewable energy alternatives including wind, solar and biomass, storage technologies and electric engines are creating a different landscape for the electricity industry. Using sources and ideas from technologies such as renewable energy alternatives, Research and Technology...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This edited monograph collects theoretical, empirical and political contributions from different fields, focusing on the commercial launch of electric mobility, and intending to shed more light on the complexity of supply and demand. It is an ongoing discussion, both in the public as well as in academia,...
Low-tech Innovation
Competitiveness of the German Manufacturing Sector
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This book highlights the economic relevance of the so-called low-tech industries and firms. Non R&D intensive firms continue to be the economic backbone of several developed industrial countries. They form the core of National Innovation Systems and contribute significantly to growth and employment....