Most developed economies, including single-industry and resource dependent rural or small town regions, are transforming rapidly as a result of social, political, and economic change.
This textbook responds to the increasing demand for practical, industry aligned, ethical practices in quantity surveying, construction management and related AEC professions.
The pharmaceutical industry faces a well-documented perfect storm: on the one hand, the patent cliff; the lack of new blockbusters and, on the other, economic pressure on pricing from markets with growing expectations and shrinking budgets.
Economic restructuring has been a notable feature of so-called mature industrial economies such as the UK and Australia in the last two decades, with deregulation, privatisation, technological change and globalisation combining to reshape such economies.
Having been state-owned for decades, the railway reform in China confused many people, particularly in terms of its ownership and property rights arrangements.
From a managerial perspective, the biopharmaceutical industry represents a competitive, fast-changing, intellectually-powered, innovation-driven sector.
This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.
Technology infrastructure supports the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components that form the knowledge-based economy.
Questo Minibook, per Green Belt, vuole essere una guida sintetica, con nozioni teoriche e spunti pratici, facilmente consultabile durante la gestione dei progetti Six Sigma.
This book is the second volume presenting carefully selected chapters from the proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics (ISCBE),Vila Real, Portugal, which took place in June 2024.
Das Buch „Industrielles Luftfahrtmanagement“ führt Sie in die Welt der Luftfahrtindustrie ein
Das Buch, das inzwischen als Standardwerk des industriellen Luftfahrtmanagements gilt, beschreibt den Aufbau und die Aktivitäten luftfahrttechnischer Betriebe.
A significant driver of disengagement amongst employees is a lack of psychological safety generated from weak and underdeveloped intra- and interpersonal skills on the part of managers.
This book takes an in-depth look at the economics and finance of professional team sports, with a strong focus on applied analysis and performance measurement, to enable students, researchers, and practitioners to develop their professional knowledge of contemporary sport business.
In the last four decades the developed economies have developed into veritable knowledge economies at the same time as more and more economies have entered the road to economic development.
Originally published in 1972, this volume, supplemented extensively with maps and tables, and employing sophisticated institutional and empirical analyses, discusses a number of important issues relating to the viability of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the natural environment.
This book gathers the best papers presented at the 19th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, which was held in Granada, Spain in July 2015.
Drawing from the detailed case studies of India and five ASEAN countries, this volume establishes the complementary role of innovation system and trade regime in promoting production and use of ICT and draws lessons for other developing countries that adopted a liberal trade regime to catch up with the ICT revolution.
Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious.
This book will provide emerging construction professionals with insights and information helpful for a successful career in the Australian construction industry.
International production networks in manufacturing, particularly in machinery industries, have rapidly developed over the last two decades, resulting in dramatic increases in intra-regional and intra-industry trade, providing a key source of regional growth, integration and development in East Asia.
Projects are ubiquitous to modern society, yet, concerns around successful delivery, value realisation, resilience and making change stick force a significant re-evaluation of the scope and extent of the 'normal' project discourse.
This textbook addresses the core issues facing economists concerning price determination in commodity markets, especially food and agricultural commodities.