Industrial Management category: 1113 books
World Class Manufacturing: The Next Decade
Building Power, Strength, and Value
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, managers have judged a company's worth by sales and profits. Now, Richard J. Schonberger, the architect of the worldwide Just-In-Time revolution, reaches beyond "financials" to redefine excellence -- and reveals, with new benchmark data, how pioneers...
Tajikistan
Promoting Export Diversification and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Building on robust economic growth since the end of a civil war in 1997, Tajikistan has transformed itself into a service economy driven by consumer spending fueled by strong remittance inflow. Yet the transfer of resources to high value-added sectors has been restrained, and structural change has...
Supply Chain and Logistics Management Made Easy
Methods and Applications for Planning, Operations, Integration, Control and Improvement, and Network Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
THE PRACTICAL, EASY INTRODUCTION TO MODERN SUPPLY CHAIN/LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT FOR EVERY PROFESSIONAL AND STUDENT!
COVERS CORE CONCEPTS, PLANNING, OPERATIONS, INTEGRATION, COLLABORATION, NETWORK DESIGN, AND MORE
SHOWS HOW TO MEASURE, CONTROL, AND IMPROVE ANY SUPPLY CHAIN
INCLUDES...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount...
Smiling for Profit
Good-Bye, Employment. Hello, Entrepreneurship on the Job
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
About the Book
Employees hate to work their best - for a reason. Some 150 years ago, employees become aware that their labour is their property. They feel entitled to the profit on this property. Once the employer takes away this profit, employees feels exploited. Hence, adversarial relationship toward...
by David Hoyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2006
From the best-selling quality management author, David Hoyle, Quality Management Essentials is the perfect brief, yet authoritative, introduction to the fundamentals of quality management.
Quality in organizations, large or small, is achieved with intelligent use of various concepts, principles,...
by David Hillson, Ruth Murray-Webster
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Despite many years of development, risk management remains problematic for the majority of organizations. One common challenge is the human dimension, in other words, the way people perceive risk and risk management. Risk management processes and techniques are operated by people, each of whom is...
International Innovation Networks and Knowledge Migration
The German–Turkish nexus
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Migration is conceived differently in Europe compared with countries like the US, Canada or Australia. International Innovation Networks and Knowledge Migration confronts traditional views on migration with modern theories of brain circulation and innovation networks, showing that migration leads...
THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM
From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution & The Higher Learning in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Engineers and the Price System is a compilation of a series of papers, each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system, planned obsolescence,...
The Geography of Competition
Firms, Prices, and Localization
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm’s geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space? When...
Cases in European Competition Policy
The Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Competition between firms is usually the most effective way of delivering economic efficiency and what consumers want. However, there is a balance to be struck. Firms must not be over-regulated and so hampered in their development of innovative products and new strategies to compete for customers....
by Francis Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
'Supply Chain Management Workbook' provides an overview of the supply chain process and addresses the key aspects involved in a supply chain.
A checklist is included to enable an assessment of a company's procedures and the facilities it offers. By working through this list of questions the...
by Oz Shy
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2001
This book introduces upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers to the latest developments in network economics, one of the fastest-growing fields in all industrial organization. Network industries include the Internet, e-mail, telephony, computer hardware and software, music and...
The Pillars of the Italian Economy
Manufacturing, Food & Wine, Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book offers a detailed analysis of the key sectors in the Italian economy, with the focus especially on areas in which the economy excels, such as the automatic packaging machinery sector, pharmaceutical production, the food and wine industry, and tourism. The book explains how, contrary to widespread...