Infrastructure category: 179 books
The Road from Ruin
How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
We Have a World-Class Mess . . . Now What?
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* Amid the carnage of bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, and millions of families losing their homes during the financial crisis of 2007–2009 lay the bloody corpse of a set of ideas that had underpinned the economics of the previous thirty years....
by Jill Dyche
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Introducing a Powerful New Business Model for Today’s IT
Blogger, speaker, software executive, and bestselling author Jill Dyché has been thinking about leadership a lot lately. Having consulted with business and IT executives with Fortune 500 companies for most of her career, she has heard...
by Michael E. Gerber
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Beyond The E-Myth embraces the fundamental premise of that first book — that a small business only succeeds to the degree its owner goes to work ON the business rather than just IN it, creating the systemic Operating System that makes that business unique in the marketplace.Beyond The E-Myth...
by van Greuning Hennie; Scott Darrel; Terblanche Simonet
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Now in its sixth edition and with previous editions translated into 15 languages this publication gives readers a broad and basic understanding of the key issues for each International Financial Reporting Standard. It summarizes each standard providing a quick reference for managers and executives in...
Project Finance in Theory and Practice
Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Project Finance in Theory and Practice: Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects, Third Edition presents a set of topics that can be applied to any project financing task. It includes essential, core material for project finance, offering new insights about Sharia-compliant...
The Risk in Risk Management
Financial Organizations & the Problem of Conformity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while believing they are safe and unique. This book presents a risk management framework to understand conformity and deviance within investment banks and other large organizations. It suggests that some groups understand...
IT-Driven Business Models
Global Case Studies in Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment .
Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe that have developed customized business...
Industrial Networks (Routledge Revivals)
A New View of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
First published in 1992, this volume brings together contemporary studies and reviews the research which established the study of networks as an area in its own right. By looking at the foundations of industrial networks and analysing network methodology and modelling, this book offers an integrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Process and input-output analysis have emerged as the two principal methods of analyzing health risks of energy technologies. This book describes applications and differences between these two methods with discussions of sources or error and uncertainty, data limitations and some solutions to common...
Construction Economics
A New Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its new approach specifically examines the problems of securing sustainable construction.
The new edition has been fully revised to provide an overview...
by Kunaka Charles
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Small scale producers in developing countries lack easy access to efficient logistics services. They are faced with long distances from both domestic and international markets. Unless they consolidate their trade volumes they face high costs which diminish their ability to trade. However the process...
Knowledge for Sale
The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.
A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit...
by Nadia Vazquez Novoa
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
The question of modern performance evaluation has been extensively discussed in the literature, leading to a call for models including non-optimizing behaviors of decision makers and non-financial performance criteria. A promising management instrument is data envelopment analysis (DEA), which enables...
Building Lean, Building BIM
Improving Construction the Tidhar Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Building Lean, Building BIM is the essential guide for any construction company that wants to implement Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling (BIM) to gain a strategic edge over their competition.
The first of its kind, the book outlines the principles of Lean, the functionality...