Industries category: 12638 books
A Stitch in Time
Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing--Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1999
The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile...
by Hinh T. Dinh, Vincent Palmade, Vandana Chandra
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa's need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries....
Who Owns the World's Media?
Media Concentration and Ownership around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's companies have dominated Italian politics. Televisa has been...
Creative Economy and Culture
Challenges, Changes and Futures for the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
"The most ambitious, thoughtful and internationally aware assessment to date of the creative economy. Defining creativity as the production of newness in complex, adaptive systems, the authors make the case that together the creative economy, along with other cultural outputs, represent a planet-wide...
Invisible Engines
How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Harnessing the power of software platforms: what executives and entrepreneurs must know about how to use this technology to transform industries and how to develop the strategies that will create value and drive profits.
Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched,...
Governing Extractive Industries
Politics, Histories, Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the...
Social Development and High Technology Industries
Strategies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The field of high technology focuses on new, rapidly developing technologies, which include electronic technology, new material technology, new energy technology, bioengineering technology, and communication technology. Social Development and High Technology Industries: Strategies and Applications highlights...
by Geoff B. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
The Engineer’s Guide to Plant Layout and Piping Design for the Oil and Gas Industries gives pipeline engineers and plant managers a critical real-world reference to design, manage, and implement safe and effective plants and piping systems for today’s operations. This book fills a training void...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Oxidative Stability and Shelf Life of Foods Containing Oils and Fats focuses on food stability and shelf life, both important factors in the improvement and development of food products. This book, relevant for professionals in the food and pet food industries, presents an evaluation of methods for...
by Stafford M. Linsley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
It has been forcefully argued that if there is one place in Great Britain where an industrialised society first emerged, then that place is Whickham on Tyne, some three miles up-river from Newcastle/ Gateshead. Certainly the North East of England was one of the power houses of Britain's Industrial...
by Rolf K. Eckhoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries, Second Edition, delivers the most current and comprehensive content for today’s process engineer. Process safety and petrochemical engineers inherently accept that there is a risk of explosions when working on process facilities such as plants and refineries....
Soft Innovation
Economics, Product Aesthetics, and the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
At its heart this book is about innovation and the innovation process. On the way, it considers aesthetics, design, creativity and the creative industries, and a number of other similar topics. Much of the existing economic literature on innovation has taken a particularly technological or functional...
Tales from the Development Frontier
How China and Other Countries Harness Light Manufacturing to Create Jobs and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales...
New Venture Formations in United States Manufacturing
The Role of Industry Environments
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This volume, originally published in 1995, investigates the variation in rates of new venture inititations across manufacturing industries. Based on Austrain and other perspectives on market disequilibrium, the book proposes a model of new venture formation in dynamic markets. It focuses on the environmental...