Industrial Management category: 1113 books

Economic activities are becoming increasingly globalised. One result being that for companies in developed market economies price-based competition is being replaced or supplemented by other forms of competitiveness. This book explores the shift towards design-based competitiveness and the escalation in the design-intensity of goods and services.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economics - Industrial Economics, grade: 1.0, Otto Beisheim School of Management Vallendar (Institute for Industrial Organization), course: Strategic Competition and European Competition Policy, 61 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...

This book focuses on Iran to explore the question of how the nature of industrial organizations and the whole system they constitute can exert a great influence on an industry’s competitiveness and resilience. The author examines what happens if firms and companies participating in the manufacturing...

This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction about the background, research topics and organizations in...

This book investigates the dynamics of the management of sustainability in networks and clusters – an area of increasing importance that is neglected by the many studies addressing sustainability at the single-enterprise level. The focus is in particular on projects involving groups of enterprises...

This is a standard shipping book, it give readers creating and educative platform to new and existing company in the shipping industry. it will enhance skills in operations with existing companies in the shipping industry Technically this book will enhance your work flow and power you to become the...

This book argues, against the current view, that competitiveness--that is, the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector--matters to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and particularly to its long-term capacity to raise the standard of living of its citizens. The book challenges the arguments...

Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - Industrial Economics, grade: 1,0, Helsinki School of Economics, course: Industrial Organisation, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The main issue in the article is the derivation of a model in which prices can differ...

This study presents new microeconomic analyses of congestion-prone services that comprise most private and public services at the final consumption stage. It accounts for two distinctive features of congestion-prone services: the discrepancy between capacity and throughput, and service quality competition....

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - Industrial Economics, grade: A, International Business School Budapest , course: Industrial Organziations, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this paper the article 'The fall in British electricity prices: market...

Based on the primary analysis of the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004), this is the fifth book in the series which began in 1980, and which is considered to be one of the most authoritative sources of information on employment relations in Great Britain. Interviews were conducted...

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading...

Tom Crumm thinks the American auto industry can regain the world leadership it once enjoyed in design, manufacturing and sales of world-class quality vehicles — and profitability. There are nearly a million American jobs at stake and when the ideas in this book spread to component and other industries...