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WCOM (World Class Operations Management) Why You Need More Than Lean
This book deals with World Class Operations Management (WCOM), detailing its principles, methods and organisation, and the results that this approach can bring about. Utilising real-world case studies illustrated by companies that have adopted this model (interviews with Saint-Gobain, L’Oréal, Tetra Pak, Bemis, and Bel Executives), it describes common patterns drawn from decades of hands-on …
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- 978-3-319-30105-1
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The Origin of the Capitalist Firm
The book addresses the entrepreneurial origin of the capitalist firm and its asymmetric contractual relationships between capitalists, workers, managers and entrepreneurs, and explains the origin of the firm by focusing on entrepreneurship. A hidden action model shows how assigning residual claim to entrepreneurs can provide a better overall incentive; a hidden information model demonstrates th…
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- 978-981-10-0221-2
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- Business Management
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- 653
Varieties and Alternatives of Catching-up Asian Development in the Context o…
This book sheds new light on the advancement of various industries in developing Asian countries through an application and re-examination of catch-up industrialization theory. With contributors presenting their own perspectives on the progression of a range of different industries in Asia, this volume provokes readers to reconsider their current understanding of industrialization in latecomer …
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- 978-1-137-59780-9
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Understanding Auctions
In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items. The prime goal of this book is to set an organized classification of the main auction mechanisms in a way that readers can understand the importance of auction design and the advantages and drawbacks of each model. Given the relevance o…
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- 978-3-319-08813-6
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The Future of the Postal Sector in a Digital World
Worldwide, postal operators have been slow to address the threats from and opportunities created by electronic competition. The European Commission and member states are wrestling with these issues, while at the same time continuing to deal with the interrelated issues of implementing entry into postal markets and maintaining the universal service obligation. The Postal Accountability and Enha…
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- 978-3-319-24454-9
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- XIII, 345, 23 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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- Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
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The Economics of the Popular Music Industry
This Palgrave Pivot uses modeling from microeconomic theory and industrial organization to demonstrate how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry. Byun examines the important role of technology in changing its structure, particularly as new methods of creating and accessing music prove to be a double-edged sword for creators and producers. An underlying th…
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- 978-1-137-46705-8
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- VIII, 128
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The Economics of Professional Road Cycling
Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed. This book is the first volume to bring together a majority of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling. Each chapter treats a particular economic aspect of the sport, from organizational structure to marketing, labor, game theory,…
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- 978-3-319-22312-4
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- X, 341,
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- Sports Economics, Management and Policy
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The Economics of Interfirm Networks
This book is one of the first comprehensive works to fill the knowledge gap resulting from the limited number of empirical studies on interfirm networks. The in-depth empirical research presented here is based on a massive transaction relationship database of approximately 400,000 Japanese firms. This volume, unlike others, focuses on the role of interfirm networks in three different fields: (1…
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- 978-4-431-55390-8
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- X, 263, 31 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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- Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
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The Economics of Interfirm Networks
This book is one of the first comprehensive works to fill the knowledge gap resulting from the limited number of empirical studies on interfirm networks. The in-depth empirical research presented here is based on a massive transaction relationship database of approximately 400,000 Japanese firms. This volume, unlike others, focuses on the role of interfirm networks in three different fields: (1…
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- 978-4-431-55390-8
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- X, 263, 31 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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- Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
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The Pillars of the Italian Economy
This book offers a detailed analysis of the key sectors in the Italian economy, with the focus especially on areas in which the economy excels, such as the automatic packaging machinery sector, pharmaceutical production, the food and wine industry, and tourism. The book explains how, contrary to widespread opinion, Italy is one of the world’s most competitive countries in foreign trade, as co…
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- 978-3-319-40186-7
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- XI, 334, 54 b/w illustrations
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