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“david j gardner”

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  • Mass Customization

    by David J. Gardner ...
    Manufacturers with highly-configurable products face daunting challenges to create the flexibility, transparency, and customer experience that delights customers without undermining profits. If a company continually experiences the pain of not being able to seamlessly connect the customer to the enterprise and efficiently drive order demand across the enterprise, the business is not set up ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The New ICT Ecosystem

    Implications for Policy and Regulation

    by Martin Fransman ...
    The ICT sector is crucial as a driver of economic and social growth. Not only is it an important industry in its own right, but it also provides the communication and infrastructure without which modern economies could not function. How does this sector work? Why is it stronger in some countries than in others? What should companies, governments and regulators be doing to enhance its contribution? ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions

    by Lionel Laroche ...
    'Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions' provides managers of technical professionals with clear and tested strategies to improve communication and increase productivity among culturally diverse technical professionals, teams, and departments.Dr. Laroche outlines the differences in education and training, career expectations, communication styles, and management expectations in ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management

    by Terry Wireman ...
    Updated to account for ISO 55000, Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, Third Edition, now includes an overview of this seminal and long-awaited standard and identifies the specific points where ISO 55000 will impact maintenance and reliability. New graphics to enhance the text’s main points have been added throughout.As with past editions, the third ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • On the Origin of Products

    The Evolution of Product Innovation and Design

    by Arthur O. Eger, Huub Ehlhardt ...
    In this new work, Arthur O. Eger and Huub Ehlhardt present a 'Theory of Product Evolution'. They challenge the popular notion that we owe the availability of products solely to genius inventors. Instead, they present arguments that show that a process of variation, selection, and accumulation of 'know-how' (to make) and 'know-what' (function to realize) provide an explanation for the emergence of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business

    Edited by Giovanni Dosi, Louis Galambos, Alfonso Gambardella, Luigi Orsanigo ...
    Series series Comparative Perspectives in Business History
    The essays in this volume probe the impact the digital revolution has had, or sometimes failed to have, on global business. Has digital technology, the authors ask, led to structural changes and greater efficiency and innovation? While most of the essays support the idea that the information age has increased productivity in global business, the evidence of a 'revolution' in the ways industries ... Read more

    $127.99 USD

  • Transaction Cost Management

    Strategies and Practices for a Global Open Economy

    by Chihiro Suematsu ...
    Series series Management for Professionals
    All organizations, institutions, business processes, markets and strategies have one aim in common: the reduction of transaction costs. This aim is pursued relentlessly in practice, and has been perceived to bring about drastic changes, especially in the recent global market and the cyber economy. This book analyzes and describes “transactions” as a model, on the basis of which organizations, ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Knowledge Generation and Distribution

    The Role of Interactions in the System Dynamics of Innovation and Growth

    Edited by Pier Paolo Patrucco ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based economy, i.e. a competitive system based on the capabilities firms have to create, use and circulate knowledge. These transformations concern both the characteristics of productive and innovative processes, and the resources used in these activities. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 2017

    Shifts in Workplace Voice, Justice, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Workplaces

    Edited by David Lewin, Paul J. Gollan ...
    Series Book 24 - Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations
    Volume 24 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight papers highlighting important aspects of the employment relationship. The papers deal with such themes as shifts in workplace voice, justice, negotiation and conflict resolution in contemporary workplaces. Consistent with previous AILR volumes, the papers in Volume 24 reflect a variety of quantitative and qualitative ... Read more

    $119.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Anti-dumping Protection

    A Strategic Analysis

    by Patricia Wruuck ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals with anti-dumping measures (AD) and investigates two questions: First, what country characteristics affect AD use and notably, do domestic political institutions have an effect? Second, (how) is the decision to impose a new AD measure affected by anticipation of trading partners’ potential retaliation? This book applies a strategic perspective to AD to address these questions, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Knowledge and the Economy

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Johannes Glückler, Martina Meskioui ...
    Series Book 5 - Knowledge and Space
    The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the ‘knowledge economy’ has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in generating functional knowledge, the transfer of knowledge via networks, and the complex interplay between knowledge, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Lean Maintenance

    A Practical, Step-By-Step Guide for Increasing Efficiency

    by Javier Girón Blanco, Torsten Dederichs ...
    The book is about applying Lean manufacturing principles to industrial maintenance in order to improve the efficiency and be able to do more with the same (or less) resources. By industrial maintenance we mean the maintenance that takes place in factories and industrial facilities. The book is the result of multiple improvement projects carried out by the authors in various industrial settings and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD