1st Edition
Entrepreneurship and Management in Forestry and Wood Processing Principles of Business Economics and Management Processes
By Franz Schmithüsen, Bastian Kaiser, Albin Schmidhauser, Stephan Mellinghoff, Karoline Perchthaler, Alfred Kammerhofer
Copyright 2014
528 Pages
110 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
528 Pages
110 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
496 Pages
110 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Forestry has long been in a rather favourable position in offering a valuable raw material source in high demand. However, with rapidly changing end-user demands and cost competitiveness within the forest and wood chain as a whole, the industry is needing to adapt. Explaining entrepreneurial action as part of a chain of comprehensive value-added processes leads to a new perception of forest... Read more
1. Forestry and the wood products industry 2. Creating added value in companies and enterprises 3. Markets and marketing 4. Management, human resources and organisation 5. Accounting: The core economic information system 6. Investment and Financing 7. Logistics 8. Strategy, controlling and wood-based sector development
Biography
Franz Schmithüsen is Professor Emeritus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
Bastian Kaiser is Professor for Applied Economics and since 2001 Rector of the University of Applied Forest Sciences Rottenburg, Germany.
Albin Schmidhauser is at the Luzern Canton Office for Agriculture, Switzerland.
Stephan Mellinghoff is collaborator in the concern strategy of Schott AC in Mainz
Karoline Perchthaler recently completed an MBA Institut für Wertewirtschaft Wien
Alfred W. Kammerhofer is deputy section chief of the Forest and Timber Industry Section in the Federal Office for Environment in Berne, Switzerland.
