Industrial Management category: 1113 books
by Tomek M. Glowacki
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
This book offers the Insiders knowledge into the super yacht construction projects. This is a common sense, straight from the gut experience and wisdom direct from the trenches. The Author explores overlapping knowledge of project management methodology, quality assurance and continuous improvement...
The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations
Comparative Employment Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional 'silos', such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties...
by Gary Chaison
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book explains how collective bargaining has changed in important and lasting ways over the past decade. We are now seeing a new and powerful strain of the concession bargaining that traces its roots back to the early 1980s. The collective bargaining of the past decade can be characterized as...
The Causal Structure of Long-Term Supply Relationships
An Empirical Test of a Generalized Transaction Cost Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Long-term supply relationships are of crucial importance in industrial organization. The present (r)evolution in information and communication technology such as e-business is proof of the increasingly dynamic environment in which firms operate. As a result, firms have to focus on their core competencies...
Extended Warranties, Maintenance Service and Lease Contracts
Modeling and Analysis for Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Serving to unify the existing literature on extended warranties, maintenance service contracts and lease contracts, this book also presents a unique perspective on the topic focussed on cost analysis and decision-making from the perspectives of the parties involved.
Using a game theoretic approach...
Value Creation and the Internet of Things
How the Behavior Economy will Shape the 4th Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
We live in a behavior economy, an environment in which people no longer engage with companies just by purchasing things, but they seek engagement with services that allow them to behave, to leave a mark, and to participate in the community of others. The economic model promoted by the behavior economy...
by S W Field, K G Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the fundamental ingredients required to introduce an improvement in quality. Concise and easy to read, the theory is backed...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
This contributed volume studies and explains the effect of agglomeration on a firm’s innovation and performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the Great Recession. Beyond the analysis of regions or clusters, this...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book is th e result of a collaborative research project involving the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba (Canada) and the Centre for Defence Economics at the University of York in England . Perhaps not surprisingly, given its transatlantic origins, its lineage...
The Anatomy of Job Loss (Routledge Revivals)
The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Job loss is one of the most important issues in the capitalist world today: endless reports document the increasing scale of unemployment. This title, first published in 1982, adopted a new approach to the geography of job loss, to assess why redundancy happens and where. Massey and Meegan argue that...
by Andy Stone
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Management
25 Strategies to Manage Teams, Lead Effectively, and Build Trust In Your Teams
Team management is not as easy as it may seem, but it could easily become. Some people say that you are either born as a leader or as a follower, but we say that anyone can be a great leader and learn how to...
Management Education in the Network Economy
Its Context, Content, and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the network economy, concepts of management knowledge, management learning, and business school organization should change. Otherwise, they will not survive the 21st century. Different (f)actors are putting new demand upon providers of management education and traditional providers of management...
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...
by W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini, Diana (edited by) Deming Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
The name W. Edwards Deming is synonymous with the most insightful views, ideas, and commentary on management and quality control. Referred to as "the high prophet of quality" by the New York Times, Deming was instrumental in the spectacular rise of Japanese industry after World War II and...