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A Stitch in Time - Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing - Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries... A Stitch in Time - Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing - Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries (Hardcover, Reissue)
Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, David Weil
R1,550 Discovery Miles 15 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Explains the major changes in the textile and clothing industry that are taking place mostly in the USA. Shows the central role of information systems in providing data on sales at the retail level that is communicated back through the system to garment distributors, manufacturers, designers, and to the starting point: the manufacturers of the cloth from which the garments are made.

Full Disclosure - The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Paperback): Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil Full Disclosure - The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Paperback)
Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil
R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Which SUVs are most likely to rollover? What cities have the unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous polluters? What cereals are the most nutritious? In recent decades, governments have sought to provide answers to such critical questions through public disclosure to force manufacturers, water authorities, and others to improve their products and practices. Corporate financial disclosure, nutritional labels, and school report cards are examples of such targeted transparency policies. At best, they create a light-handed approach to governance that improves markets, enriches public discourse, and empowers citizens. But such policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on an analysis of eighteen U.S. and international policies, Full Disclosure shows that information is often incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to consumers, investors, workers, and community residents. To be successful, transparency policies must be accurate, keep ahead of disclosers' efforts to find loopholes, and, above all, focus on the needs of ordinary citizens.

Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better - Lessons from the Harvard Home Builder Study (Paperback): Frederick Abernathy, Kermit... Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better - Lessons from the Harvard Home Builder Study (Paperback)
Frederick Abernathy, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton, David Weil
R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better examines the performance and operation of the US homebuilding sector based on a detailed survey of large home builders conducted by the authors in the period of the great building boom of the 2000s. In contrast to the many books that have focused on the financial side of the housing sector prior to the Great Recession, the book examines the operational side of the industry and what did, and, more importantly, what did not, happen during the period of unprecedented growth. Despite the rise of very large, national homebuilders during the boom years from 1999 to 2005 and the consolidation of the industry that accompanied it, the authors find that major homebuilders often did not adopt innovations in areas ranging from information technology, supply chain practices, and work site management, nor improve their operational performance. Given this, the book discusses what homebuilders can learn from other industries as they face a challenging future.

The Fissured Workplace - Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It (Paperback): David Weil The Fissured Workplace - Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It (Paperback)
David Weil
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety conditions, and ever-widening income inequality. "Authoritative...[The Fissured Workplace] shed[s] important new light on the resurgence of the power of finance and its connection to the debasement of work and income distribution." -Robert Kuttner, New York Review of Books "The kinds of workplace fissuring discussed here-subcontracting, franchising and global supply chains--have been the subjects of a number of studies detailing the employment effects that Weil describes. The Fissured Workplace is unusual in bringing this research together into an integrated, detailed and decidedly policy-oriented analysis...It makes a convincing case that the better regulation of fissured workplaces is a first step towards reversing the erosion of pay and conditions at the bottom of the labor market." -Virginia Doellgast, Times Higher Education

Full Disclosure - The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Hardcover): Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil Full Disclosure - The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Hardcover)
Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these targeted transparency policies include financial securities disclosures, nutritional labels, school report cards, automobile rollover rankings, and sexual offender registries. They constitute a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens. However, as Full Disclosure shows these policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on a comparative analysis of eighteen major policies, the authors suggest that transparency policies often produce information that is incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to the consumers, investors, workers, and community residents who could benefit from them. Sometimes transparency fails because those who are threatened by it form political coalitions to limit or distort information. To be successful, transparency policies must place the needs of ordinary citizens at centre stage and produce information that informs their everyday choices.

Economic Growth - IX RE American English Reprint (Paperback, 2nd New edition): David Weil Economic Growth - IX RE American English Reprint (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
David Weil
R6,095 Discovery Miles 60 950 Out of stock
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