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Managing Organizations in the Creative Economy

Organizational Behaviour for the Cultural Sector

by Paul Saintilan, David Schreiber
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017

The creative and cultural industries represent a growing and important sector in the global economy. Thriving in these industries is particularly tough and organizations face unique challenges in the digital age. This textbook provides a vivid initiation into the creative industries workplace. Managing...
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Empty Mills

The Fight Against Imports and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry

by Timothy J. Minchin
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012

With the economy struggling, there has been much discussion about the effects of deindustrialization on American manufacturing. While the steel and auto industries have taken up most of the spotlight, the textile and apparel industries have been profoundly affected. In Empty Mills, Timothy Minchin...
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The Digital Hand

How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries

by James W. Cortada
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003

In The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's role in sixteen industries, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. economy. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada...
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Artist Management

Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries

by Guy Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Artists are creative workers who drive growth in the creative and cultural industries. Managing artistic talent is a unique challenge, and this concise book introduces and analyses its key characteristics. Artist Management: Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries makes a major contribution...
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Industries without Smokestacks

Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered

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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018

By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa. Accelerating economic growth is key to rising incomes on the continent, and central to this challenge is establishing activities that are capable of employing large numbers of unskilled workers, that can...
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Experimental Capitalism

The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries

by Steven Klepper
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015

For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental Capitalism examines six key industries—automobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillin—and...
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Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship

An Analysis of the European Textile and Apparel Industries

by Albert N. Link, Nancy J. Hodges
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017

This book examines knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) with a focus on the European textile and apparel industries. The primary purpose is to review the extant academic literature related to the European textile and apparel industries and reflect on that review empirically using a new and robust...
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by Worth Books
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Industries of the Future tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Alec Ross’s book.   Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This...
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Cultural Industries in Shanghai

Policy and Planning inside a Global City

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

Cultural Industries in Shanghai gathers articles by Chinese scholars that analyse the developments in Shanghai's cultural industries over the past 30 years. Like many cities in China and elsewhere, Shanghai has explicitly stated that fostering the creative economy is its top economic and political...
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by Dennis P. Nolan, Eric T Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015

Applied Operational Excellence for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries offers a straightforward practical guide for oil and gas companies to understand the comparisons and contrasts between various types of safety management processes, including the standardized structure and ongoing extended benefits...
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The EU's Government of Industries

Markets, Institutions and Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014

To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU’s choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the headlines and highlighted the importance of EU decision-making arenas. However, these macro-economic events...
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The Digital Hand, Vol 3

How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries

by James W. Cortada
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007

In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, turning finally to the public sector, and examining how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in government and education. This book goes far beyond...
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Industrial Approaches to Media

A Methodological Gateway to Industry Studies

by Matthew Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016

This guidebook, aimed at those interested in studying media industries, provides direction in ways best suited to collaborative dialogue between media scholars and media professionals. While the study of media industries is a focal point at many universities around the world – promising,...
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Advances in Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries

Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA

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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016

This book addresses human factors research in energy, an emphasis on human factors applications in design, construction, and operation of nuclear, electrical power generation, and oil and gas assets. It discusses advanced strategies in the optimization of human and environmental performance, as well...
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