The book provides a fresh and distinctive perspective on one of the most important topics for CEOs and senior executives in corporations. The book provides easily accessible insights that gives voice to leaders of household-named companies from across the globe. The book is based on in-depth research that combines a highly practical approach, in-depth interviews with CEOs, executives, and headhunters in leading corporations.

The book provides a fresh and distinctive perspective on one of the most important topics for CEOs and senior executives in corporations. The book provides easily accessible insights that gives voice to leaders of household-named companies from across the globe. The book is based on in-depth research that combines a highly practical approach, in-depth interviews with CEOs, executives, and headhunters in leading corporations.

Based on a unique ten-year research program that combines a large number of interviews with CEOs, executives, chairmen of the board, and senior headhunters with large-scale quantitative research to provide an unrivaled combination of relevance and rigor. Takes a deliberately international perspective ensuring the cross-border's applicability of the findings. Given the extensive conversations with CEOs, the book is full of case studies and insights from leaders of some of Europe's best-known corporations. The authors combine academic insights with real-life experience to present ideas that withstand the challenges of today's dynamic business environment.

Examining the anthracite coal trade's emergence and legacy in the five counties that constituted the core of the industry, the authors explain the split in the modes of production between entrepreneurial production and corporate production and the consequences of each for the two major anthracite regions. This book argues that the initial conditions in which the anthracite industry developed led to differences in the way workers organized and protested working conditions and the way in which the two regions were affected by the decline of the industry and two subsequent waves of deindustrialization. The authors examine the bourgeois class formation in the coal regions and its consequences for differential regional growth and urbanization. This is given context through their investigation of class conflict in the region and the struggle of workers to build a stable union that would represent their interests, as well as the struggles within the union that finally emerged as the dominant force (the United Mine Workers of American) between conservative business unionists and progressive forces. Lastly, the authors explore the demise of anthracite as the dominant industry, the attempt to attract replacement industries, the subsequent two waves of deindustrialization in the region, and the current economic conditions that prevail in the former coal counties and the cities in them. This book includes a discussion of local politics and the emergence of a strong labor-Democratic tie in the northern anthracite region and a weaker tie between labor and the Democratic party in the central and southern fields.

Major players in the information and communication technology industries have used corporate venture capital, alliances, acquisitions, or spin-offs to achieve remarkable strategic self-renewal. Keil's succinct and readable account shows how. In-depth empirical research clarifies and emphasizes the role that external corporate venturing plays in the acquisition of knowledge and the advancement of corporate strategic capabilities. Keil explores the ways in which external corporate venturing creates access to other means of renewal, controls critical resources, and accelerates the overall growth of organizations.

Keil conceptualizes two main elements of the external venturing process. First, the creation of a shared context bridges the gap between the corporation and the community in which it resides, supporting knowledge transfer and the formation of cognitive intra-corporate frameworks. The second element is the efficient execution of relationships, which allows a rapid development of venturing opportunities. With case studies and lucid explanations, Keil shows how other corporations create and use a variety of connected learning processes to build their own venturing capabilities.

Based on a unique ten-year research program that combines a large number of interviews with CEOs, executives, chairmen of the board, and senior headhunters with large-scale quantitative research to provide an unrivaled combination of relevance and rigor. Takes a deliberately international perspective ensuring the cross-border's applicability of the findings. Given the extensive conversations with CEOs, the book is full of case studies and insights from leaders of some of Europe's best-known corporations. The authors combine academic insights with real-life experience to present ideas that withstand the challenges of today's dynamic business environment.

Behrend Freese geht der Frage nach, welchen strategischen Mehrwert Corporate-Venture-Capital-Programme fur die Muttergesellschaften und die Portfoliounternehmen schaffen konnen, und entwickelt ein Modell, das die unterschiedlichen Interessen der Industrieunternehmen und der Start-up-Unternehmen integriert."

This book addresses the form and nature of the transition Romania has undergone since the fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1989. The reconstruction of Romania has taken place not only within the context of the legacy of state socialism, but within an even greater context of general historical, political social and economic legacies. Some of the problems Romania has encountered during this progression are its system of social stratification, economic development and the struggle to create a solid national identity.

Angesto en durch aktuelle Probleme wie Rohstoffmangel, steigende Energiepreise und Optimierungsma nahmen in Fertigungsprozessen sind Untersuchungen zur aufgabenangepasster Werkstoffwahl von steigender Bedeutung. Sowohl die Effizienz von Bauteilen in Bezug auf Funktion und Lebensdauer sowie die Kosteneffizienz k nnen durch die richtige Materialwahl gesteigert werde. Fragen bez glich Nutzen und Aufwand (Zeit- und Kostenaufwand) m ssen im Entwicklungsprozess gestellt und entschieden werden. Dabei sollte einer Untersuchung wie der vorliegenden eine entscheidende Rolle zukommen und auch von der Unternehmensleitung gefordert und gef rdert werden. Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit Verbundwerkstoffen im Allgemeinen und Titan-MMC im Speziellen. Dabei werden im ersten Teil des Buches die Bedeutung sowie die Unterschiede zu anderen Werkstoffformen beschrieben und herausgearbeitet, und im zweiten Teil die Ergebnisse der zugrundeliegenden experimentellen Versuche erl utert, bewertet und als Grundlagen f r eine Empfehlung benutzt. Das Buch beruht auf einer umfassenden theoretischen Betrachtung und Absch tzung sowie aus Ergebnissen experimenteller Fr sversuche mit TIAL6V4. Dabei wurde TiAl6V4 mit unterschiedlichen Verst rkungsanteilen von Titankarbid TiC untersucht. Die Verst rkungsanteile ver ndern auf der einen Seite die Eigenschaften des Materials als auch auf der anderen Seite die Anforderungen an den Bearbeitungsprozess. Der Bedarf der Bearbeitung des Themas entwickelte sich aus Drehversuchen mit TiAl6V4, bei denen die eingelagerten TiC-Partikel einen erh hten Verschlei der Werkzeuge zur Folge hatten. Auf dieser Grundlage wird in der Untersuchung die These aufgestellt, dass durch die in Verbundwerkstoffen eingelagerten Keramikpartikel, die Belastung der Schneiden bei der Bearbeitung mit geometrisch bestimmter Schneide deutlich h her liegt als bei der Bearbeitung des reinen Matrixwerkstoff. Die These wird im Buch nicht nur untersucht, analysiert und belegt, sondern der