Industrial Management category: 1113 books
Management of Alliance Networks
Formation, Functionality, and Post Operational Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Effective management is crucial to the success of the inter-firm cooperation, and may reduce the risk that is inherently associated with these strategies. If cooperative strategy is to be successful, managers must have knowledge of factors that should be taken into consideration during formation and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
The third quarter of the twentieth century was a golden age for labor in the advanced industrial countries, characterized by rising incomes, relatively egalitarian wage structures, and reasonable levels of job security. The subsequent quarter-century has seen less positive performance along a number...
by Ernest Aves
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Ernest Aves (1857-1917) was an influential social analyst and civil servant. This title, first published in 1907, during Aves’ work for the Board of Trade, investigates the different forms of industrial co-operation within Britain; the fundamental principle of this is stated as "equitable association",...
Globalization of Indian Industries
Productivity, Exports and Investment
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
This book focuses on Indian manufacturing industries and analyses the impact of inward foreign direct investment on the domestic sector on the one hand, and exports and outward foreign direct investment by Indian companies on the other. Although the emphasis is mostly general, specific industries,...
Analytics for Smart Energy Management
Tools and Applications for Sustainable Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them. It uses a number of illustrative examples to explain energy management...
The Lean Enterprise
From the Mass Economy to the Economy of One
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The book is divided into three parts.
Part I. The Rising economy of “one” gives an overview of what is changing in the social system of production, it refers to the weakening role of central planning and the rising power of individuation in the value creation chain.
Part II. Lean...
Patent Policy
Legal-Economic Effects in a National and International Framework
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Intellectual property rights have become increasingly important for our modern economies in recent years. Although the entire patent system has a profound effect on the decision of firms of whether to conduct research and at which volume, patent law is the heart of the entire patent system. Therefore,...
Competition Policy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2004
This is the first book to provide a systematic treatment of the economics of antitrust (or competition policy) in a global context. It draws on the literature of industrial organisation and on original analyses to deal with such important issues as cartels, joint-ventures, mergers, vertical contracts,...
Rethinking Management
Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to apply 'best practice', or to take up 'evidence-based management' and what kind of thinking does this imply? In Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues...
Catching up through technology absorption
Possibilities for developing countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - Industrial Economics, grade: 70/100, Stellenbosch Universitiy (Economics), course: Economics of Technological Change, language: English, abstract: A country´s economic performance and wealth is clearly linked to the degree of the country´s industrialization...
Foundations & Principles of Distributed Manufacturing
Elements of Manufacturing Networks, Cyber-Physical Production Systems and Smart Automation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
The book presents a coherent description of distributed manufacturing, providing a solid base for further research on the subject as well as smart implementations in companies. It provides a guide for those researching and working in a range of fields, such as smart manufacturing, cloud computing,...
European Commission Decisions on Competition
Economic Perspectives on Landmark Antitrust and Merger Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
European Commission Decisions on Competition provides a comprehensive economic classification and analysis of all European Commission decisions adopted pursuant to Articles 101, 102 and 106 of the FEU Treaty from 1962 to 2009. It also includes a sample of landmark European merger cases. The decisions...
The Australian Trade Practices Act 1974
Proscriptions and Prescriptions for a More Competitive Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book presents a collection of papers which evaluate the achievements of the Australian Trade Practices Act 1974 in making Australian markets more competitive. The contributors have all played major roles in Australian and New Zealand antitrust actions, either as expert economic witnesses, as...
The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector
Towards A Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Postal operators worldwide have been slow to address the threats from and opportunities created by electronic competition. The European Commission and member states are wrestling with these issues,...