The book’s overarching aim is to explore linkages between geographies of finance and relational geographies of innovation. This, as it were, long-term aim is operationalized in the research question how investment activities affect the unfolding of innovations and in turn are affected by it. It…
Hardback – 2019-03-05
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Strategic success of industry depends upon manufacturing competencies (i.e., the competitive advantage to ensure better quality and reliability), which will increase sales and create a sound customer base. Competitive priorities are the operating advantages that are assessed, evaluated, and…
Hardback – 2019-02-15
CRC Press
Presenting new research on rural-urban migration in developing countries, this book combines novel economic theories with empirics, and focuses on the social dimensions of such movement. Centering on the movement from villages to cities in South Asia, and in India in particular, the book argues the…
Hardback – 2018-12-31
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
From a managerial perspective, the biopharmaceutical industry represents a competitive, fast-changing, intellectually-powered, innovation-driven sector. Many management scholars have studied this discontinuous era to make sense of strategic behavior and the cognition of firms and top managers. A…
Hardback – 2018-12-20
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry
Society is now facing challenges for which the traditional management toolbox is increasingly inadequate. Well-grounded theoretical frameworks, such as systems thinking and cybernetics, offer general level interpretation schemes and models that are capable of supporting understanding of complex…
Hardback – 2018-12-18
Routledge
Routledge-Giappichelli Systems Management
As material objects, guns are one of the simplest mechanical tools. As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, however, guns are rich with complex and contested significance. What guns mean, why they matter, and what policies should be undertaken to regulate guns remain issues of…
Hardback – 2018-11-29
Routledge
This book tells 101 stories of company efforts to implement the many aspects of flow manufacturing -- including such topics as just-in-time production, total quality control, reorganization of factories into product-focused or customer-focused cells, plants-in-a-plant, material flows by the…
Hardback – 2018-11-28
Productivity Press
This book defines, develops, and examines the foundations of the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology. It explains in detail the five phases, and it relates its significance to national, international, and customer specific standards. It also includes additional information on the…
Hardback – 2018-11-27
CRC Press
Practical Quality of the Future
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food, and are in principle more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms, than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated. This book reviews and…
Hardback – 2018-11-21
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
This book analyses the determining factors behind productivity and innovation amongst Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, and within the context of South East Asia, in order to offer recommendations for increasing productivity and aiding economic growth. Small and medium sized firms…
Hardback – 2018-11-08
Routledge
Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability,…
Paperback – 2018-11-02
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade. It sheds light on cities as new spaces for food system innovation and on…
Paperback – 2018-11-02
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment