Industries category: 12638 books
Handbook of State Aid for Film
Finance, Industries and Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale. It shows how public funding schemes add value to film-making and other audio-visual productions and provides a comprehensive analysis of today’s global challenges in the film industry such as industry...
by Packianathan Chelladurai, Shannon Kerwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Human Resource Management in Sport and Recreation, Third Edition, provides current and future practitioners with a solid foundation in research and application of human resource management in the sport and recreation industries. The third edition prepares students for success by bringing into focus...
Energy Demand in Industry
What Factors Are Important?
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The book presents a stochastic analysis based on production risk and application of this method in the industrial sector under production risk where energy use is an input factor. Using South Korea as a case study, the book empirically models energy demand at the industrial level and analyzes the...
Equipment Management in the Post-Maintenance Era
A New Alternative to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Recent advancements in information systems and computer technology have led to developments in equipment and robotic technology that have permanently changed the characteristics of manufacturing equipment. Equipment Management in the Post-Maintenance Era: A New Alternative to Total Productive Maintenance...
Negotiating Business Narratives
Fables of the Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Financial Trading Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical. It develops a more nuanced analytic model of private sector narrative and applies it to 63 recent narrative texts (movies, histories, biographies) produced in the US dealing with three major...
by Morgan Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
In this groundbreaking collection of 15 interviews, successful founders of entertainment software companies reflect on their challenges and how they survived. You will learn of the strategies, the sacrifices, the long hours, the commitment, and the dedication to quality that led to their successes...
by Shridhar Lolla
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Experts have called the current pattern of rapid and unpredictable changes in business conditions as the New Normal. In order to lead in these conditions, it is critical to constantly innovate business at an ever faster pace. And to obtain the desired responsive capabilities, organizations significantly...
Moving Boxes by Air
The Economics of International Air Cargo
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Air cargo is a key element of the global supply chain. It allows outsourcing of manufacturing to other countries and links production in both multinational and smaller enterprises. It has also been the most important driver of certain export industries in countries such as South Africa, Kenya and...
The Blockchain Journey
A Guide to Practical Business Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This book clearly shows which industries are the most impacted by blockchain technologies and provides several decision support tools for business executives. Managers in the most affected industries should no longer postpone the launch of blockchain-inspired initiatives, whether those initiatives...
The Highwaymen
Warriors of the Information Superhighway
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
A struggle is taking place--not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is control of the world's fastest-growing industry: communications. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies....
Jony Ive
The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
“An adulating biography of Apple’s left-brained wunderkind, whose work continues to revolutionize modern technology.” —Kirkus Reviews
In 1997, Steve Jobs discovered a scruffy British designer toiling away at Apple’s headquarters, surrounded by hundreds of sketches and prototypes....
Competitive Advantage
Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness...
by Klaus Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.
Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale,...
The Business Blockchain
Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The definitive pioneering blueprint covering the what, why and how of the blockchain.
Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core, a blockchain injects trust into the network, cutting...