Industries Professions category: 12443 books
China's Technological Catch-Up Strategy
Industrial Development, Energy Efficiency, and CO2 Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Prior to 1979, China had a bifurcated and geographically-dispersed industrial structure made up of a relatively small number of large-scale, state-owned enterprises in various industries alongside numerous small-scale, energy-intensive and polluting enterprises. Economic reforms beginning in 1979...
The Professions, State and the Market
Medicine in Britain, the United States and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing, the book adopts a neo-Weberian perspective, in which professions are seen as a form of exclusionary social...
Competitive Strategy
Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity—like all great breakthroughs—Porter’s analysis...
A Stitch in Time
Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing--Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1999
The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile...
by Hinh T. Dinh, Vincent Palmade, Vandana Chandra
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa's need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries....
Who Owns the World's Media?
Media Concentration and Ownership around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's companies have dominated Italian politics. Televisa has been...
Creative Economy and Culture
Challenges, Changes and Futures for the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
"The most ambitious, thoughtful and internationally aware assessment to date of the creative economy. Defining creativity as the production of newness in complex, adaptive systems, the authors make the case that together the creative economy, along with other cultural outputs, represent a planet-wide...
by Paul M. Pedersen, Lucie Thibault
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Contemporary Sport Management, Fifth Edition With Web Study Guide, provides students with an overview of sport management by presenting extensive discussions of the foundational aspects of the profession and current topics from the field. The fifth edition continues to engage students with a full-color...
Soul Full of Coal Dust
The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2020
In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down.
Decades have passed since black lung disease...
Invisible Engines
How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Harnessing the power of software platforms: what executives and entrepreneurs must know about how to use this technology to transform industries and how to develop the strategies that will create value and drive profits.
Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched,...
Generation Chef
Risking It All for a New American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Inside what life is really like for the new generation of professional cooks—a captivating tale of the make-or-break first year at a young chef’s new restaurant.
For many young people, being a chef is as compelling a dream as being a rock star or professional athlete. Skill and creativity...
Governing Extractive Industries
Politics, Histories, Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the...
Social Development and High Technology Industries
Strategies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The field of high technology focuses on new, rapidly developing technologies, which include electronic technology, new material technology, new energy technology, bioengineering technology, and communication technology. Social Development and High Technology Industries: Strategies and Applications highlights...
by Geoff B. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
The Engineer’s Guide to Plant Layout and Piping Design for the Oil and Gas Industries gives pipeline engineers and plant managers a critical real-world reference to design, manage, and implement safe and effective plants and piping systems for today’s operations. This book fills a training void...