Las Claves de La Eficacia Empresarial (Coleccion Empresa y Humanismo, #4)
by Tomas Melendo
The federal government's promises to "build back better" and "build back green" highlight opportunities to reimagine Canadian infrastructure. In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild.Covering more than fifty years across many sectors, the auth...
Uncovering the Drivers of Utility Performance
by Luis Alberto Andraes, Luis A Andres, and Jordan Schwartz
Science in the Metropolis (Routledge Studies in Cultural History, #96)
This book presents new research on spaces for science and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in the imperial metropolis of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters discuss Habsburg science policy, metropolitan natural history museums, large technical projects including the Ringstrasse and water pipelines from the Alps, urban geology, geography, public reports on polar exploration, exchanges of ethnographic objects, popular scien...
Assessing the Training and Operational Proficiency of China's Aerospace Forces
by Edmund J Burke, Astrid Stuth Cevallos, Mark R Cozad, and Timothy R. Heath
Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands (Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands, VOLUME 2)
This book introduces students to the practical business implications of economics. To concentrate on the kind of theoretical model building beloved by so many teachers and writers does little to stimulate the kind of economic awareness likely to prove really useful to those who wish to pursue a career in business. This book concentrates on the economic decisions that have to be made within the firm as they relate to objectives, marketing and production strategy, investment, pricing and finance....
In Atomic the authorsa revolutionary theory is put to the test. Looking across all sectors of business, including retail banking, financial services, telecommunications, IT and consultancy, carbon--based corporations (oil and gas companies), and consumer products companies, Camrass and Farncombe discover some real eye--openers, including how truly more efficient these industries become by a change in corporate structure. The implications for individuals are equally profound and far--reaching. I...
The Distillers Company (DCL) existed from 1877 until 1986 when it was acquired by Guinness. This book covers DCL's history from its founding as the merger of six firms to its position as one of Britain's largest manufacturing companies with diversified interests around the world. It is an extraordinary story of growth, acquisition, and diversification. By the 1920s DCL dominated the whisky industry in Scotland eventually acquiring the then big three blending firms - James Buchanan, John Dewar...
1999 Connecticut Manufacturers Register
Energy Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (Homeland Security)
by Frank R. Spellman
This book focuses on the three interrelated energy infrastructure segments: electricity, petroleum, and natural gas. It presents common-sense methodologies in a straightforward manner and is accessible to those who have no experience with energy infrastructure or homeland security. It is intended to help employers and employees handle security threats they must be prepared to meet on a daily basis.
Seaport and Airport Infrastructure Economics and Policy - a Singapore Perspective
by David Ho Kim Hin
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District (History of American Science & Technology)
by W. David Lewis
This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted anda interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the United States as the world's foremost economic power.a Similarly, the closing of a once-profitable ironmaking installation amid social and technological changes that convulsed Birmingham nine decades...
Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean (Routledge Indian Ocean)
by Edward Simpson
Based on substantial ethnographic, textual and archival research, this interesting book offers a new perspective on the anthropology of the western Indian Ocean. Writing in a clear, engaging style, and covering an impressive range of theoretical terrain, Simpson critically explores the relationships between people and things that give life to the region and drive shifting patterns of social change among Muslims in the highly-politicized state of Gujarat. Scholars of the Indian Ocean, Muslim soc...