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The Dynamics of Interfirm Relationships - Markets and Organization in Japan (Hardcover): Yongdo Kim The Dynamics of Interfirm Relationships - Markets and Organization in Japan (Hardcover)
Yongdo Kim
R2,780 Discovery Miles 27 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an authoritative study of interfirm and supplier relationships in leading Japanese industries, which thoroughly disrupts existing cultural stereotypes by pursuing a carefully crafted evolutionary and comparative perspective combined with compelling original research' - Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, USThe goal of this path-breaking volume is to relativize the experience of Japanese industries in terms of both location and time, exploring its similarities and differences with other countries and its unique relationship with the global standard of company performance set by US firms. Yongdo Kim looks beyond organizational principles, overturns stereotypes, and covers a wide range of industries. In particular, this book focuses on the intertwining of the market principle and the organizational principle in interfirm relationships among the steel, machine tool, integrated circuit and liquid-crystal display materials industries, concluding that there is no such thing as 'Japanese uniqueness' in the history of interfirm relationships. This book compares several intermediate product industries within a global context to offer insights into the studies of businesses across the globe. Numerous interviews with key individuals in the Japanese steel, integrated circuit and machine tool industries offer unique and illuminating information. This analysis covers a broad range of firms by examining the relationships within large companies as well as smaller corporations. This fresh and varied analysis is a critical resource for both business practitioners and scholars of business history, business strategy, industrial marketing, product development management, and economic history.

Evolutionary Economics and Path Dependence (Hardcover): Lars Magnusson, Jan Ottosson Evolutionary Economics and Path Dependence (Hardcover)
Lars Magnusson, Jan Ottosson
R3,148 Discovery Miles 31 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Evolutionary Economics and Path Dependence presents important new theoretical and empirical work on economic change, learning processes, institutional change, choice and path dependency.The theoretical section includes discussion of the microfoundations of path dependency, path dependency in industrial networks, path dependence and the theory of the firm, lock-in effects in relation to professional organizations, the notion of bricolage in relation to path dependency and new and neo-institutional perspectives on the theory of the firm. The empirical part focuses on institutional change in the communications and transport sectors of the economy. More specifically it shows how path dependency occurs and develops through various types of lock-in effects within institutions. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of economics and economic history wishing to keep up-to-date with research at the frontier of this exciting field.

Agricultural Stability and Farm Programs - "Concepts, Evidence, and Implications" (Paperback): Daniel A. Sumner Agricultural Stability and Farm Programs - "Concepts, Evidence, and Implications" (Paperback)
Daniel A. Sumner
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book attempts to contribute to a fuller understanding of perennial issues underlying farm problems and agricultural policies in the United States thus contributing to better projections of policy effects, to better forecasts of policy changes, and perhaps to better policy for agriculture.

Institutional Change and Industrial Development in Central and Eastern Europe (Paperback): Anne Lorentzen, Brigitta Widmaier,... Institutional Change and Industrial Development in Central and Eastern Europe (Paperback)
Anne Lorentzen, Brigitta Widmaier, Mihaly Laki
R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Published in 1999, this is a collection of recent research results by acknowledged researchers in the field of enterprise transformation and industrial development in Central and Eastern Europe.

Technological Capability and Learning in Firms - Vietnamese Industries in Transition (Paperback): Tran Ngoc Ca Technological Capability and Learning in Firms - Vietnamese Industries in Transition (Paperback)
Tran Ngoc Ca
R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, this volume examines technology in developing countries with a focus on Vietnam. One of the world's poorest countries, Vietnam has begun rehabilitation following the Vietnam War. Tran Ngoc Ca had four aims for this study. First, exploration of the development of TC in Vietnamese industrial companies and looks at how the learning process is related to the accumulation of TC. Second to detail links between macro environment factors and micro internal actions of firms and their impact on TC. Third, addressing specific issues in comparison with other developing countries and transitional economies. Fourth and finally, to provide a background for the implementation of policy concerned with enhancing TC acquisition.

Irrigation Investment, Technology, and Management Strategies for Development (Paperback): K.William Easter Irrigation Investment, Technology, and Management Strategies for Development (Paperback)
K.William Easter
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book reports on a study that assessed the effectiveness of irrigation technologies and management practices in the Third World. Using a management model, it offers new perspectives on the evaluation of investment priorities and the benefits of irrigation projects in developing countries.

Norway, Oil, and Foreign Policy (Paperback): John C Ausland Norway, Oil, and Foreign Policy (Paperback)
John C Ausland
R1,273 Discovery Miles 12 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This first English-language study examines the problems, benefits, and prospects for the future faced by Norway as an oil-producing nation. It demonstrates the impact of oil on Norway's foreign policy.

Egypt's Agricultural Development, 1800-1980 - Technical And Social Change (Paperback): Alan Richards Egypt's Agricultural Development, 1800-1980 - Technical And Social Change (Paperback)
Alan Richards
R1,278 Discovery Miles 12 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses both microeconomic theory and social and political analysis to show how the interaction of social classes, technical change, government policy, and the international and state systems have shaped Egypt's agricultural development.

The Economics of the East Asia Steel Industries - Production, consumption and trade (Paperback): Yanrui Wu The Economics of the East Asia Steel Industries - Production, consumption and trade (Paperback)
Yanrui Wu
R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998, the objective of this book is to provide a detailed examination of steel production, consumption and trade in East Asia. Specifically, it addresses steel trade and investment environment in East Asia and forecasts steel price movement in the future. In addition, a major focus in this book is the investigation of the metals industry in China, Asia's emerging steel giant. Finally, one chapter of the book also documents the resource sector in Western Australia, one of the world's major sources of iron ore. Rapid economic growth over the past decade has significantly changed the gravity of Asia in the world economy. This trend has particularly been strengthened by the awakening giant, China, whose economy has been growing continuously at a two-digital rate since the late 1970's. Asian countries together have now consumed as much as steel as the developed economies. As a result, Asia as a region has become the key to the expansion of the global steel industry in the future.

Beyond E-Business - Towards networked structures (Hardcover): Paul Grefen Beyond E-Business - Towards networked structures (Hardcover)
Paul Grefen
R4,075 Discovery Miles 40 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Beyond E-Business: Towards Networked Structures Paul Grefen returns with his tried and tested BOAT framework for e-business, now fully expanded and updated with the very latest overview of digitally connected business; from business models, organization structures and architecture, to information technology. What used to be termed "e-business" is now simply business as usual. Today's successful organizations are complex; they are part of dynamic business networks built on digital channels, going far beyond traditional e-business. This text provides invaluable insights of modern e-business integrated with networked business, going much further than the usual analysis of traditional e-business texts. Included is coverage of the Big Five-social media, mobile computing, big data, cloud computing, and the internet of things --as well as service-oriented business and technology. This essential text provides a compact roadmap to networked e-business for engineering, information systems or business students as well as professionals in the field.

New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production (Paperback): Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production (Paperback)
Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus on various aspects of co-production and its potential contribution to new public governance. It has an interdisciplinary focus that makes a unique contribution to the body of knowledge in this field, at the cross-roads of a number of disciplines - including business administration, policy studies, political science, public management, sociology, third sector studies, etc. The unique presentation of them together in this volume both allows for comparing and contrasting these different perspectives and for potential theoretical collaboration and development. More particularly, this volume addresses the following concerns: What is the nature of co-production and what challenges does it face? How can we conceptualize the concept of co-production? How does co-production works in practice? How does co-production unfold in reality? What can be the effects of co-production? And more specific, firstly, how can co-production contribute to service quality and service management in public services, and secondly, what is the input of co-production on growing citizen involvement and development of participative democracy?

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History (Paperback): Gareth Austin, Kaoru Sugihara Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History (Paperback)
Gareth Austin, Kaoru Sugihara
R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and quality of global industrialization. While science and technology developed in the West and whereas the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, were vital to this process, the more recent history has been underpinned by the development of comparatively resource- and energy-saving technology, without which the diffusion of industrialization would not have been possible. The labour-intensive, resource-saving path, which emerged in East Asia under the influence of Western technology and institutions, and is diffusing across the world, suggests the most realistic route humans could take for a further diffusion of industrialization, which might respond to the rising expectations of living standards without catastrophic environmental degradation.

Psychology in Organizations - integrating Science and Practice (Paperback): Kevin R. Murphy, Frank E. Saal Psychology in Organizations - integrating Science and Practice (Paperback)
Kevin R. Murphy, Frank E. Saal
R1,297 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R842 (65%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book deals with two key questions. First, is there a firm scientific basis for the major applications of psychology in organizations? Second, does the practice of psychology in organizations contribute in any meaningful way to psychological research? This text attempts to answer these questions by describing some of the unique ways in which Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychologists integrate science and practice in applying psychology in organizations. The editors of this volume believe that there is great potential for the effective interplay of science and practice in I/O psychology. Aware, however, that much work must still be done before a truly effective integration can be achieved and maintained, they have created a text that offers specific suggestions for improvement as well as many examples of successful integration. Psychology in Organizations explores the unique relationship between science and practice within industrial/organizational psychology. The contributors seek to answer two main questions: * Is there a firm scientific basis for the major applications of psychology in organizations? * Does the practice of psychology in organizations contribute in any meaningful way to psychological research? After an initial examination of the industrial/organizational psychologist as a scientist and practitioner, Psychology in Organizations looks at specific roles played in such issues as job performance and productivity, sexual harassment, drug abuse, and drug testing. A final chapter looks at both the past and future of the field and suggests future applications.

Agricultural and Rural Development in Indonesia (Paperback): Gary E Hansen Agricultural and Rural Development in Indonesia (Paperback)
Gary E Hansen
R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary overview of the major facets of Indonesia's contemporary agricultural and rural development, while exploring the macro and micro factors that account for uneven development patterns.

Service Industries - A Geographical Appraisal (Paperback): Peter W. Daniels Service Industries - A Geographical Appraisal (Paperback)
Peter W. Daniels
R1,067 R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Save R418 (39%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Handbook of Industrial Innovation (Hardcover): Mark Dodgson, Roy Rothwell The Handbook of Industrial Innovation (Hardcover)
Mark Dodgson, Roy Rothwell
R5,670 Discovery Miles 56 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Industrial innovation is essential for national and corporate competitiveness. Understanding the nature, determinants and consequences of innovation is a key task of managers, public policymakers and all students of industry and business. This major new reference book brings together specially commissioned contributions by many leading world experts on a wide range of issues concerning innovation. The first section provides an introduction to the significance and process of industrial innovation, and to the contexts or 'systems' within which it occurs. A series of sectoral and industrial studies is followed by assessments of the key issues affecting innovation. Another section examines one of the main constraints on successful innovation: the strategic management of technology in both products and processes. As well as the benefits of innovation, the problems and challenges of the processes, management and outcomes of innovation are raised throughout the book. Select bibliographies chosen by international experts are included to ensure that this comprehensive reference tool is an indispensable guide for students, scholars, innovators and policymakers.

International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 1995 (Hardcover): Unido International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 1995 (Hardcover)
Unido
R7,040 Discovery Miles 70 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A unique and comprehensive source of information, the International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policy makers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector.This is the first issue of the annual publication which succeeds the UNIDO's Handbook of Industrial Statistics and, at the same time, replaces the United Nation's Industrial Statistics Yearbook, volume I (General Industrial Statistics). Covering more than 120 countries/areas, the new version contains data which is internationally comparable and much more detailed than that supplied in previous publications. Information has been collected directly from national statistical sources and supplemented with estimates by UNIDO. The Yearbook is designed to facilitate international comparisons relating to manufacturing activity and industrial performance. It provides data which can be used to analyse patterns of growth, structural change and industrial performance in individual industries. Data on employment trends, wages and other key indicators are also presented. Finally, the detailed information presented here enables the user to study different aspects of industry which was not possible using the aggregate data previously available.

ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE IN EUROPE - A Report Prepared for the Centre for Industrial Policy and Performance,... ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE IN EUROPE - A Report Prepared for the Centre for Industrial Policy and Performance, University of Leeds (Hardcover)
David Coates
R3,650 Discovery Miles 36 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Economic and Industrial Performance in Europe, a distinguished group of scholars compares the fortunes of different European nations in the period of economic restructuring, uncertainty, and generally slower economic growth that followed the oil crisis of the 1970s. Using meaningful quantitative data, the authors address the deterioration and divergence of economic performance across Europe since 1973. They look at attempts to improve domestic competitiveness, labour market deregulation, the impact of research and development on economic success, comparative analysis of state expenditure and debt, the military economy and the social consequences of industrialism and industrial restructuring. This volume seeks to show how the post-war boom has unravelled and how this process has impacted upon different European economies. Economic and Industrial Performance in Europe will be welcomed by students, researchers and policy makers seeking comprehensive, meaningful information on why some national economies have been better placed than others to shoulder the burden of the more intense, global competitive pressures that have become part of the post-1973 world economy.

Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions - Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform (Paperback): John Kelly Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions - Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform (Paperback)
John Kelly
R1,614 Discovery Miles 16 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Allan Flanders was one of the leading British industrial relations academics and his ideas exerted a major influence on government labor policy in the 1960s and 1970s. But as well as being an Oxford academic with a strong interest in theory and labor reform, he was also a lifelong political activist. Originally trained in German revolutionary ethical socialism in the early 1930s, he was the founder and joint editor of Socialist Commentary, the leading outlet for 'revisionist' social democratic thinking in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also the leading figure in the influential 1950s 'think tank' Socialist Union and played a key part in the bitter factional struggles inside the Labour Party. The main argument of the book is that Flanders' ethical socialist ideas constituted both his strength and his weakness. Their rigor, clarity and sweep enabled him to exert a major influence over government attempts to negotiate labor reforms with the trade unions. Yet he proved unable to explain the failure of the reforms amidst rising levels of industrial conflict, as his intellectual rigor turned into ideological rigidity. The failure of negotiated reform led to Margaret Thatcher's neo-liberal assault on trade union power in the 1980s.

International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2016 (Hardcover): Unido International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2016 (Hardcover)
Unido
R7,861 Discovery Miles 78 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Acclaim for previous editions:'The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2011 provides comprehensive statistical data on world manufacturing. . . The Yearbook represents a massive effort in data collection, data harmonization, and tabular presentation - well beyond the constraints of time and resources available to the average researcher or investigator. Therefore, the Yearbook presents a vast amount of information in a convenient form.' - William C. Struning, American Reference Books Annual 2012 'The UNIDO International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is now a classic reference. . . The different editions of the Yearbook provide a unique statistical tool for analyzing the world industry.' - Revue d Economie Industrielle / Industrial Economics Review 'This annual publication seems to be the only international publication providing worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. In terms of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and cross-country comparisons this volume is unparalleled . . . If you are looking for an authoritative source for comparative international statistics on industrial information, this is it.' - Andrea Meyer, Business Information Alert 'This is a unique and massive effort by UNIDO providing comparative statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector worldwide . . . There is no doubt that the volume is a most important source book for economists, planners and policymakers.' - Pradosh Nath, Journal of Science and Industrial Research'UNIDO has done well to bridge gaps in information noticed so far in industrial statistics worldwide and its companionship and usefulness will be realised by all users of this documentation in governmental, industrial and academic circles, as a must on every working desk. Its reliability is fully backed up by authoritative analysis.' - Rajinder Kunmar, Marketing and Management NewsA unique and comprehensive source of information, this book is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policymakers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. The Yearbook is designed to facilitate international comparisons relating to manufacturing activity and industrial development and performance. It provides data which can be used to analyse patterns of growth and related long term trends, structural change and industrial performance in individual industries. Statistics on employment patterns, wages, consumption and gross output and other key indicators are also presented.

The Industrial & Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain During the Nineteenth Century (Paperback): L. C. A. Knowles The Industrial & Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain During the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
L. C. A. Knowles
R1,385 Discovery Miles 13 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to bring out the causes which led to the coming of machinery and which made Great Britain the workshop of the world for a large part of the nineteenth century. Knowles especially stresses the world position of the United Kingdom during the past century owing to the developments of mechanical transport which were the inevitable outcome of the mass production by machines. This title also aims to account for the great change in public opinion after 1870, which led to the growth of State control, not merely in industry, but in commerce, agriculture, transport and imperial relations.

Studies in Industrial Organization (Paperback): H.A. Silverman Studies in Industrial Organization (Paperback)
H.A. Silverman
R1,090 R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Save R417 (38%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The studies in this volume are a result of the Social Reconstruction Survey carried out by Nuffield College, Oxford between 1941 and 1944. The Survey studied the position and prospects of towns or areas in Britain in order to find out what was likely to happen to their industrial development with a view to planning for the post-war location of industry and distribution of population. The result is an invaluable source of empirical material for the study of British industry in the mid twentieth century. Industries covered include: * Natural Textiles, Artificial Textiles, Carpets, Footwear * Extensive use of statistical information for imports and exports, production costs, employment figures etc.

Industry and the State (Paperback): P.Sargant Florence Industry and the State (Paperback)
P.Sargant Florence
R1,064 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R389 (37%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents a chronology of state policy in industry since the 1500s to the mid twentieth century, and explains the ideas that have shaped it. Includes chapters on: The state and exploitation; state participation in industry; state information and services; state operation of industry and state control over industry.

The Logic of British and American Industry (Paperback): P.Sargant Florence The Logic of British and American Industry (Paperback)
P.Sargant Florence
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Summarizing the facts about the prevailing sizes of industrial firms or plants and the patterns of industrial location in Britain and America, this book also interprets the facts in basic terms such as technical requirements and consumer habits. Examining investment and human resource management, the contrasts and (unexpected) similarities in the industrial structure and government of the two countries are analysed. The book includes new research into the real seat of power in the British joint stock company and compares the results with the realities of the American corporation.

The Logic of Industrial Organization (Paperback): P.Sargant Florence The Logic of Industrial Organization (Paperback)
P.Sargant Florence
R1,364 Discovery Miles 13 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Covering issues as pertinent today as when the book was first published, The Logic of Industrial Organization discusses key themes in industrial relations, manufacturing, employment and investment and education for business administration. The book contains chapters on the following: The Structure of Industry; The Efficiency of Large-Scale Operation; Planned and Free Consumption; Forecasting and Market Research; Competition; Rationalization and Nationalization; Investment and Employment; Incentives to Work and Mobility; Stimulus to Enterprise and Administration.

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