Volume sumbangan ini menyajikan makalah penelitian terpilih dari lokakarya ke-8 tentang Logistik dan Manajemen Rantai Pasokan, yang diadakan pada bulan Oktober 2013 di Berkeley, California. Buku ini berfokus pada isu topikal pendekatan kuantitatif dalam logistik dan manajemen rantai pasokan, terutama yang mencakup lokasi fasilitas dan perutean lokasi; perutean dan penjadwalan kendaraan; desain …
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Here, experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the implications this has for sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A comprehensive analysis of racial disparities and the determinants of entrepreneurial performance--in particular, why Asian-owned businesses on average perform relatively well and why black-owned businesses typically do not.Thirteen million people in the United States--roughly one in ten workers--own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and hav…
Presents results of collaborative research projects of the European Community's Information Society Technologies Programme about service-oriented computing.Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented comp…
This is an examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics - from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia - and the resulting activism in those states.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This is an examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.
The authors assess the influence of scientific advice in societies that increasingly question scientific authority & expertise. This paradox is explored through an ethnographic study of the scientific advisory committee, one of the key sites for the interaction of science, policy & society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the sustainability movement has been co-opted: from ecobranding by Wal-Mart to the "greening" of the American military.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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…