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This book describes the sustainable development journey of 15
business families committed to using their enterprises as a force
of societal good. In turn, each family reaps benefits of high
economic returns, while contributing to society and environment.
The youngest family firm is in its 20s, while there are others over
100 years of age. Size, industry, locations vary. But all these
business families share a deep shared commitment towards
sustainable development, control over strategic decision-making in
their firms and trans-generational continuity intentions. Family
values embed their enterprises with a strong sense of purpose to
achieve their chosen sustainable development goals.
Professionalized systems and processes foster the development of
capabilities, and partnerships with a variety of stakeholders
ensure the simultaneous achievement of social, environmental and
profitability goals. Educators, students, policy makers and
business families interested in sustainable development will find
new understanding of family business through Pioneering Family
Firms' Sustainable Development Strategies.
Rapid Review of PACES is an essential guide for the MRCP PACES
examination that has been fully updated to include the revised exam
format, covering all five clinical stations, including Brief
Clinical Consultation, History Taking, Communication Skills and
Ethics. This book includes the most common case based clinical
scenarios and provides practical advice on approach to the patient,
inspection of signs and examination technique, with thorough
explanations of how to interpret the elicited signs. The systematic
clinical examination techniques given by this book will help serve
as templates as you develop your own style and perfect your
clinical skills as you strive to become that better physician!
This book describes the sustainable development journey of 15
business families committed to using their enterprises as a force
of societal good. In turn, each family reaps benefits of high
economic returns, while contributing to society and environment.
The youngest family firm is in its 20s, while there are others over
100 years of age. Size, industry, locations vary. But all these
business families share a deep shared commitment towards
sustainable development, control over strategic decision-making in
their firms and trans-generational continuity intentions. Family
values embed their enterprises with a strong sense of purpose to
achieve their chosen sustainable development goals.
Professionalized systems and processes foster the development of
capabilities, and partnerships with a variety of stakeholders
ensure the simultaneous achievement of social, environmental and
profitability goals. Educators, students, policy makers and
business families interested in sustainable development will find
new understanding of family business through Pioneering Family
Firms' Sustainable Development Strategies.
In recent years our understanding of corporate sustainability has
moved from exploitation to exploration, from corporate
environmental management to sustainable entrepreneurship, and from
efficiency to innovation. Yet current trends indicate the need for
radical innovation via entrepreneurial start-ups or new ventures
within existing corporations despite difficulties with the
financing and marketing of such efforts. Presenting both conceptual
and empirical research, this fascinating book addresses how we can
combine environmental and social sustainability with economic
sustainability in order to produce innovative new business models.
The international cast of contributors addresses the wide range of
issues in the balance between growth and environmental concerns.
The first five chapters discuss various aspects of sustainable
entrepreneurship. This is followed by two chapters that look at
innovation within existing firms. Innovation is not successful
until it finds a customer, so the two chapters that follow delve
into the marketing aspects of business-to-consumer and
business-to-business settings. The book closes with a broad
discussion of the evolution and future of the research agenda into
the intersection of sustainability, innovation and
entrepreneurship. Academics, students, business professionals, and
NGOs will find this volume enlightening and useful.
This book provides a detailed overview of various
parameters/factors involved in inventory analysis. It especially
focuses on the assessment and modeling of basic inventory
parameters, namely demand, procurement cost, cycle time, ordering
cost, inventory carrying cost, inventory stock, stock out level,
and stock out cost. In the context of economic lot size, it
provides equations related to the optimum values. It also discusses
why the optimum lot size and optimum total relevant cost are
considered to be key decision variables, and uses numerous examples
to explain each of these inventory parameters separately. Lastly,
it provides detailed information on parameter estimation for
different sectors/products. Written in a simple and lucid style, it
offers a valuable resource for a broad readership, especially
Master of Business Administration (MBA) students.
Currently, there are no textbooks on drug product manufacturing
technology transfer that incorporate the latest regulatory
expectations. Recent guidance from regulatory bodies such as the US
FDA, EMEA, WHO, and PIC/S has adopted the ICH Lifecycle approach
harmonizing concepts across regulatory guidance. This allows
organizations to align their technology transfer activities for all
regulated markets. However, there is a need for consensus and
direction in approaching technology transfer, particularly in
understanding how to manage the scale-up effects to ensure
regulatory compliance. This textbook offers technology transfer
solutions and guidance to the pharmaceutical industry. The chapters
provide a systematic understanding of applying the technology
transfer concepts in pharmaceutical manufacturing, promoting
standardization within the industry. Since Stage 1b is not
specified in detail within the regulations, pharmaceutical
organizations are left to determine the requirements of the stage.
The need to justify the methodologies and utilization of sound
science makes it more demanding. The textbookâs authors provide
innovative solutions for technology transfer challenges, making it
a comprehensive reference document. The approaches can be applied
to both small-molecule and large-molecule drug product
manufacturing segments, addressing the unmet needs of the industry.
Discusses forecasting expenditure in detail. Provides analysis of
reduction and increase in the forecasting expenditure. Highlights
advanced concepts including procurement inventory, production
planning, and priority planning in detail. Examines an approach in
relation to the inclusion of an explicit cost of forecasting.
Covers total cost formulation, modified total cost, relevant index,
threshold value, and cost of forecasting in a comprehensive manner
with the help of examples.
Environmental sustainability practice and research have advanced
over the past decade from novelty to near-mainstream status today.
During this environmentally critical time period, sustainability
practitioner techniques, such as environmental, energy and social
auditing, other sustainability information and related systems, and
a wide variety of environmental sustainability approaches have been
developed, improved and institutionalised, advancing both the
practice and research of environmental sustainability management
and policy. However, academics and practitioners in the
sustainability field still have widely differing perspectives on
what a sustainable organisation is or might be, but seldom take the
opportunity to share these respective sustainability visions, let
alone the multiple ways to achieve them. New Horizons in Research
on Sustainable Organisations is intended to bridge this gap between
academics and practitioners with cutting-edge research from both
groups on progress towards sustainability. After working on
sustainability-related projects involving other academics, both
research- and practitioner-oriented graduate students, consultants,
managers and activists, the lead co-editors of this volume saw the
need to encourage information exchanges among differing networks of
sustainability stakeholders to create a pathway for researchers and
practitioners in the general area of organisations and the natural
environment to address issues of common interest. There are many
networks in the general subject area, but the cross-pollination of
ideas between academics and practitioners remains sketchy. New
Horizons in Research on Sustainable Organisations is intended to
present and encourage such cross-pollination. The chapters in this
volume are presented in three subsets, generally proceeding from
the most "macro" to the most "micro" in terms of perspective and
applicability. However, this arbitrary division belies the
integration from macro through meso (or mid-range) to micro levels
that is apparent in these studies. Macro approaches typically
include wider geographic scopes, greater numbers of stakeholders,
and more complex explanatory factors than micro approaches. Each
chapter adopts one or more particular sustainability world-view and
then grounds these and the other chapter elements within actual
organisations. Therefore, the reader is advised to envision not a
one-dimensional continuum but rather a circle in which the macro
view both feeds back and feeds forward to the micro view. This
volume addresses a number of intriguing and important sustainable
organisation phenomena such as multiple sustainable development
perspectives, changing environmental politics, environmental
management systems variations, voluntary environmental programme
performance, complex adaptive systems, and environmental technology
development. Additionally, several models are suggested, such as
cultivation, capabilities and business ecology frameworks.
Following the super-success of their MRCP Part 2 volume, the
authors adapt their special teaching skills to the needs of MRCP
Part 1 and similar exams in internal medicine. The book consists of
360 'Best of 5' multiple choice questions (1,800 clinical decision)
reflecting the latest exam format. It covers all areas of clinical
medicine needed by exam candidates and includes psychiatry and
applied basic science. The answers contain full didactic
explanations to ensure the reader understands each condition or
topic, and features lists, tables and tutorials to guide candidates
in their revision and exam technique. The book has proved
invaluable to young doctors studying for higher exams in internal
medicine and to medical tutors preparing post graduate
examinations.
The study covers recent statistical data of the principles of Green
Chemistry, a bibliometric study of research and review papers
published between 1999 and 2018, and recent trends of research
topics on Green Chemistry. This study collects, processes and
refines available information in scientific area. The authors have
provided recent statistical data on the principles of Green
Chemistry and a bibliometric analysis of published review and
research articles, as well as trends of research topics, in this
unique volume. Key Features: Provides a comprehensive review of
recent statistical data on the principles of Green Chemistry.
Presents a bibliometric analysis of published reviews and research
articles as well as the trends of research topics in Green
Chemistry. Surveys and critically analyzes Green Chemistry
literature The subject matter is timely since tracking of research
trends in the Green Chemistry field is important for directing
future research
This book presents the story of growth and change of what is still
a largely unorganized food and beverage service industry in India.
With the authors' vast experience in both industry and academia,
the volume provides a holistic perspective of the current status of
the food and beverage industry in India and identifies the topical
issues and the challenges. The authors offer an insightful
discussion on where the industry is headed and how it can move from
top-line driven growth to a bottom-line supported one.
Provides detailed models/analysis pertaining to various cases which
are useful for material requirements planning and supply chain
environment. Elaborates manufacturing rate flexibility, demand
variation, and production rate variation. Discusses multi-item
manufacturing environment and presents models with backorders as
well as fractional backlogging. Analyzes flexible production rate
along with upward and downward variations.
Inventory Planning with Innovation: A Cost Focus discusses
inventory planning concepts with major emphasis on innovation to
reduce cost in a single volume. Provides an understanding of
innovation efforts and linking it with inventory planning in
reducing cost. Offers various factors influencing innovation
efforts, knowledge of investment or expenditure that might be
estimated before starting the innovation efforts, purchase
inventory, and the manufacturing inventory. Covers important
concepts including innovation efforts, strategic period,
procurement inventory, total cost estimation, production inventory,
related total cost planning, multiple products, multiple items
procurements, and multiple items manufacture. This reference is
primarily written for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and
professionals in the field of industrial engineering, production
engineering, and manufacturing science.
Manufacturing Parameters and Entrepreneurship provides a guide that
helps business leaders understand and apply the production
parameters and estimation techniques needed for commercial success.
This book covers important concepts in depth, including
manufacturing space, manufacturing quality, production backorders,
space consideration, quality aspects, maximum inventory control,
entrepreneurial application, and quality inclusion. Key features:
Covers manufacturing parameters, their estimation, and effects in a
single volume. Discusses conceptualization, formulation, and
analysis of space consideration. Provides basic understanding and
mathematical treatment of quality aspects in detail. Discusses in
detail concepts such as manufacturing space, manufacturing quality,
and production backorders. Covers stock out situations in detail.
Manufacturing Parameters and Entrepreneurship will be an invaluable
addition to the libraries of graduate students and professionals in
the field of industrial engineering, production engineering, and
manufacturing science and engineering.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of industrial consultancy
on a variety of issues and aspects including operations and
services. This book: Looks at both individual-level consultancy and
consultancy for firms, companies, or institutions. Uses
observations, examples, and case studies to bring together key
themes: consulting approach; production operations vs. services
consulting; location and facilities criteria; human-machine
interaction; lead time objective; outsourcing decisions and
management; and infrastructure influence along with consultancy
objectives, strategic considerations, and conflict resolution.
Presents a comprehensive understanding of industrial consultancy
and services offered to a wide range of industries, across type,
size, and scale, including manufacturing, pharmaceutical,
fabrication, and transformer industries. The first of its kind,
this book will be a useful resource for industry and management
professionals as well as scholars and researchers of business
management, business economics, operations, entrepreneurship and
organizational behaviour, and engineering.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of industrial consultancy
on a variety of issues and aspects including operations and
services. This book: Looks at both individual-level consultancy and
consultancy for firms, companies, or institutions. Uses
observations, examples, and case studies to bring together key
themes: consulting approach; production operations vs. services
consulting; location and facilities criteria; human-machine
interaction; lead time objective; outsourcing decisions and
management; and infrastructure influence along with consultancy
objectives, strategic considerations, and conflict resolution.
Presents a comprehensive understanding of industrial consultancy
and services offered to a wide range of industries, across type,
size, and scale, including manufacturing, pharmaceutical,
fabrication, and transformer industries. The first of its kind,
this book will be a useful resource for industry and management
professionals as well as scholars and researchers of business
management, business economics, operations, entrepreneurship and
organizational behaviour, and engineering.
Robotic marine vessels can be used for a wide range of purposes,
including defence, marine science, offshore energy and hydrographic
surveys, and environmental surveys and protection. Such vessels
need to meet a variety of criteria: they must be able to operate in
salt water, and to communicate and be controlled over large
distances, even when submerged or in inclement weather. Further
challenges include 3D navigation of individual vehicles, groups or
squadrons. This book covers the current state of research in
navigation, modelling and control of marine autonomous vehicles,
and deals with various related topics, including collision
avoidance, communication, and a range of applications. It provides
valuable insights for an audience of researchers, academics and
postgraduate students interested in autonomous marine vessels,
robotics, and electrical and automobile engineering.
This book is an invaluable resource with 400 self-assessment cases
and data interpretation questions covering all aspects of internal
medicine. It has great breadth of coverage, superb illustration,
lively presentation, precise answers and detailed discussion.
This book includes broad coverage of production and associated
services. Since the success of manufacturing operations depends on
the demand information and costs and revenue, qualitative and
quantitative techniques of demand forecasting and also financial
analysis are covered in this book. Topics such as facilities
layout, inventory, project management, production, planning and
management are explained in detail. Additional topics include
quality control and work study.
The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of KIET
Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR organized the 4th International
Conference ICCE-2020 during November 28-29, 2020. Information
compiled in this book is based on the 114 research papers of
excellent quality covering different domains of Electronics and
Communication Engineering, Computer Science Engineering,
Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and
Instrumentation Engineering. The subject areas treated in the book
are: Satellite, Radar and Microwave Techniques, Secure, Smart, and
Reliable Networks, Next Generation Networks, Devices &
Circuits, Signal & Image Processing, New Emerging Technologies,
having the central focus on Recent Trends in Communication &
Electronics (ICCE-2020). In addition, a few themes based on Special
Sessions have also been conducted in ICCE-2020. The objective of
the book resulting from the 4th International Conference on Recent
Trends in Communication & Electronics (ICCE-2020) is to provide
a resource for the study and research work for an interested
audience comprising of researchers, students, audience, and
practitioners in the areas of Communications & Computing
Systems.
The contributors to this book present research on crafting
long-term ecological and societal solutions in order to achieve
sustainability. The in-depth analyses explore the interactions
among social, environmental, and development impacts of
organizations at community, regional, national and global levels.
In doing so they shed light on the way forward amidst the
complexity of issues involved, referred to here as the
sustainability mosaic. Organizations and individuals cannot be
sustainable in isolation. Rather, it is necessary to understand
them as parts of an overall system comprising ecological,
individual, organizational, political-economic and socio-cultural
levels. One of the characteristics of the sustainability mosaic is
that efforts are carried out at all these levels. Collectively, the
contributors provide the analytic framework required for
understanding sustainability and the multiple, interconnecting and
embedded systems. Students and scholars of sustainability,
environmental studies and business will find in this book
commonalities for new and collaborative research. CEOs, managers
and consultants will find much of value as they negotiate their way
towards sustainability.
The study covers recent statistical data of the principles of Green
Chemistry, a bibliometric study of research and review papers
published between 1999 and 2018, and recent trends of research
topics on Green Chemistry. This study collects, processes and
refines available information in scientific area. The authors have
provided recent statistical data on the principles of Green
Chemistry and a bibliometric analysis of published review and
research articles, as well as trends of research topics, in this
unique volume. Key Features: Provides a comprehensive review of
recent statistical data on the principles of Green Chemistry.
Presents a bibliometric analysis of published reviews and research
articles as well as the trends of research topics in Green
Chemistry. Surveys and critically analyzes Green Chemistry
literature The subject matter is timely since tracking of research
trends in the Green Chemistry field is important for directing
future research
The modern world increasingly demands that firms contribute to
greater social justice and equity while preserving natural capital.
This comprehensive guide, authored by one of the leading thinkers
in the field of sustainability, helps managers understand how they
can develop business logic, change their organizations, change
managerial mindsets and decision-making, and build critical
capabilities in order to compete in a sustainable world.
Key guidance on implementing sustainable business strategiesUnique
focus on stakeholder assessment, opportunity framing and capability
buildingFinalist for the Organizations and the Natural Environment
(ONE) Best Book Award at the Academy of Management 2015
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