Industry & Industrial Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Economics of Climate Change and the Change of Climate in Economics

   Edited by Kevin Maréchal

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Climate change is without question the single most important issue the world faces over the next hundred years. The most recent scientific data have led to the conclusion that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming and that continued greenhouse gas...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Lean Design Management

   Edited by Stephen Emmitt

   Series: Architectural Engineering and Design Management

   The fields of design management and lean construction appear to be developing independently. This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design management in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). The...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

   Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Manufacturing Enterprise in Asia

   Size Structure and Economic Growth

   By Dipak Mazumdar, Sandip Sarkar

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Issues relating to the size of firms in manufacturing are central to the discussion of development strategies. This book offers an interpretation of growth trajectories in selected Asian economies in terms of the size-structure of enterprises in the manufacturing sector of these economies. The book...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Privatization of Public Services

   Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe

   Edited by Christoph Hermann, Jörg Flecker

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Maritime Slavery

   Edited by Philip Morgan

   Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Managing the Insider Threat

   No Dark Corners

   By Nick Catrantzos

   An adversary who attacks an organization from within can prove fatal to the organization and is generally impervious to conventional defenses. Drawn from the findings of an award-winning thesis, Managing the Insider Threat: No Dark Corners is the first comprehensive resource to use social science...

   Published May 16th 2012 by CRC Press
8. Hairdressing: Level 2

   The Interactive Textbook

   By Att Training Ltd, Charlotte Church, Alison Read

   For Level 2 Hairdressing students on NVQ, SVQ and VRQ courses A genuinely new and innovative way for students to study hairdressing, this new textbook is supported with extensive multimedia material and activities at no extra cost. Some books include a few videos and basic materials, but this...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Organizations and the Bioeconomy

   The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

   By Alexander Styhre

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world, and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence,...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Global Korean Motor Industry

    The Hyundai Motor Company's Global Strategy

    By Russell D. Lansbury, Chung-Sok Suh, Seung-Ho Kwon

    Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

    This book examines the experiences of the globalizing Korean automobile industry, with particular focus on the Hyundai Motor Company (HMC), one of the most prominent of the new Korean multinational corporations. It provides an overview of the changing nature of the global automobile industry,...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge