Industrial Management category: 1113 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Any Chainnan of the British Post Office dwells in the shadow of Rowland Hill, and, if he were an honest man, he probably from time to time, while singing the praises of Rowland Hill, as is his due, thinks a silent thought of sympathy for his predecessor Colonel Maberly, the head of the Post Office,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Title first published in 2003. Contributors from a wide range of European countries illustrate the validity of four propositions about employee participation: that different forms of employee participation mutually reinforce each other; that major shifts in employment relations require innovative...
by Michael A. Hitt, Susan E. Jackson, Salvador Carmona
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Many strategies fail not because they are improperly formulated but because they are poorly implemented. The Oxford Handbook of Strategy Implementation examines the crucial role of implementation in how business and managerial strategies produce returns. In this wide-ranging collection of essays,...
by David J. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Manufacturers with highly-configurable products face daunting challenges to create the flexibility, transparency, and customer experience that delights customers without undermining profits. If a company continually experiences the pain of not being able to seamlessly connect the customer to the enterprise...
The Manufacturing of Markets
Legal, Political and Economic Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Different types of markets exist throughout the world but how are they created? In this book, an interdisciplinary team of authors provide an evolutionary vision of how markets are designed and shaped. Drawing on a series of case studies, they show that markets are far from perfect and natural mechanisms,...
Insurance and Behavioral Economics
Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark models of choice derived from classical economic theory. Where actual choices stray from predictions,...
Economics of the Firm
Analysis, Evolution and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This book brings together some of the world's leading experts to present an interdisciplinary, critical perspective on current issues surrounding the economics of the firms. It eschews standard approaches to the economics of the firm (including analysis of transaction costs) in favour of a more interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The economic analysis of the digital economy has been a rapidly developing research area for more than a decade. Through authoritative examination by leading scholars, this handbook takes a closer look at particular industries, business practices, and policy issues associated with the digital industry....
Public-Private Partnership Projects in Infrastructure
An Essential Guide for Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, healthcare, and achieving many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help; they...
Representing Workers
Trade Union Recognition and Membership in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Employment relations are at a crossroad. Historically, trade union channels in advanced economies have dominated worker representation, but with the decline in union membership other forms of representation are becoming increasingly significant.
This timely book is the result of significant...
The New ICT Ecosystem
Implications for Policy and Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The ICT sector is crucial as a driver of economic and social growth. Not only is it an important industry in its own right, but it also provides the communication and infrastructure without which modern economies could not function. How does this sector work? Why is it stronger in some countries than...
Design Driven Innovation
Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti introduces a third strategy, a radical...
by Gary Chaison
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Globalization is commonly described in trade and cultural terms but its impact on unions and collective bargaining is seldom assessed. The few studies of unions and globalization are mostly collections of cases studies of how unions can work together or with other alliance partners to defend against...
Basic Income Reconsidered
Social Justice, Liberalism, and the Demands of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines the arguments for and against basic income from the point of view of economic and social justice.