A book of cutaways of aircraft from aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Aircraft illustrated include the Hudson bomber, Constellation, P3 Orion anti-submarine plane and the gigantic Galaxy transport, to the SR-71 spyplane, the world's fastest air-breathing aircraft.
Was Darwin fur die Natur beschrieben hat, kann in der Automobilindustrie 1:1 nachvollzogen werden. Die Branche befindet sich weltweit am Ende eines Ausleseprozesses, den nur die Besten und Anpassungsfahigsten uberleben werden. Diese Parallelitat zeigt der Autor auf und liefert dafur empirische Belege. Er erstellt ein Ranking der Automobilhersteller und entwickelt Massnahmen, mit denen sie ihre UEberlebenschancen verbessern koennen. Damit bietet der Band eine aktuelle Analyse der Weltautomobilind...
Before the advent of its great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and minerals that has ever been discovered in one country. It was the discovery and exploitation of first diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886...
A hands-on guidebook for making your strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance Execution Excellence is the practitioner's guide to real-world implementation. Designed by a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) thought leader with 30 years of experience and over 300 global implementations under his belt across a range of industry sectors, this guide gives you a hands-on framework for putting the BSC methodology into action. Clear, concise, and easy to read, this book...
Air Pollution Control Engineering for Environmental Engineers (Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering)
A concise yet comprehensive book that can be read and used from cover to cover, presenting topics that are fundamental for environmental engineering students, engineers, and professionals in the fields of air pollution control engineering and management. Air Pollution Control Engineering for Environmental Engineers covers topics including regulatory approaches to managing air pollution, emissions calculations, and control technologies for various air pollutants. This textbook also presents pract...
A Fortune 500 company as a pioneer of current gold-mining technology Jack H. Morris details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains today the second largest gold miner in the world. He asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today's technology-driven industry. We learn how the company's founder and several early leaders grew up in gold camps and how, in 1917, the company helped finance South Africa's largest gold company and later owned fam...
Enterprising China: Business, Economic, and Legal Developments Since 1979
by Linda Yueh
China has undergone a remarkable transition over the past thirty years from a centrally-planned economy to a more market oriented one. The transformation of business in China has been correspondingly evident. This book gives an interdisciplinary analysis of the evolution of business development in China and the 'marketization' of industry during this period within a complex framework of legal, political, and economic reform aims. The book includes twelve original business case studies to provid...
Alex Swan and the Swan Companies (Western Lands and Waters)
by Lawrence M Woods
The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan's many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the American West, and it survived long after it founder's financial debacle in the great winter of 1886-1887. At one time, the Swan was said to be the largest private landowner in Wyoming, and at its peak...
World Famous in New Zealand: How New Zealand's Leading Firms Became World Class Competitors
by Colin Campbell-Hunt
How corporate denial harms our world and continues to threaten our future. Corporations faced with proof that they are hurting people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of witch hunts, attacking their critics' motives, and otherwise rationalizing their harmful activities. Denial campaigns have let corporations continue dangerous practices that cause widespread suffering, death, and environmental destruction. And, by undermining social trust in sci...
Societal Change Between Market and Organization (Public Policy and Social Welfare, v. 11)
by John Child, Michel Crozier, and Renate Mayntz
This title was the theme of the Tenth Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), held in 1991 in Vienna. From the papers presented there, this book offers 11 contributions, covering interorganizational networks and the logic of management, and other topics.