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Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution
At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centred, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262265935
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- 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Workflow Patterns: The Definitive Guide
A comprehensive guide to well-known workflow patterns: recurrent, generic business process constructs, described from the control-flow, data, and resource perspectives.The study of business processes has emerged as a highly effective approach to coordinating an organization's complex service- and knowledge-based activities. The growing field of business process management (BPM) focuses on metho…
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- 9780262329408
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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A ghost's memoir : the making of Alfred P. Sloan's "My years with General Mot…
Includes index.The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motor's attempts to block the book's publication, and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation.Published in 1964, My Years with General Motors was an immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Slo…
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- 9780262279420
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 202 pages)
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- 620 MCD
Democracy's Arsenal: Creating a Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry
The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295260
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 432 pages) :illustrations
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Globalization and the poor periphery before 1950
"In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both the economist and the historian, analyzing its economic impact on industrially lagging poor countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Williamson argues that industrialization in the core countries of northwest Europe and their overseas settlements, combined wi…
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- 9780262286329
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- 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations
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- Ohlin Lectures
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- 362 WIL g
Revolutionizing innovation :users, communities, and open innovation
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered by the economist Eric von Hi…
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- 9780262331524
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- 1 online resource (xv, 577 pages) :illustrations
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Make it new: The history of Silicon Valley design
Drawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader, this thought provoking book reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation. --OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330923
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 253 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and o…
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- 9781461942979
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- 1 online resource (xi, 204 pages)
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The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and S…
"Using data from before and after the 1956 Act, this book compares the two groups of industries to determine the effect of price competition on concentration, firm and plant numbers, profitability, advertising intensity, and innovation. The book avoids two problems common to empirical studies of competition: how to measure the intensity of competition and how to unravel the links between compet…
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- 9780262284639
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- 1 online resource (x, 542 pages) :illustrations
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The theory of collusion and competition policy
A review of the theoretical research on unlawful collusion, focusing on the impact and optimal design of competition law and enforcement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342995
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- 1 online resource (x, 133 pages)
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