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Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention
"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. . . . Plastics." This line from the film The Graduate has come to symbolize the hubris, promise, and disappointment embodied in one of the world's most ubiquitous materials. At present, plastics are cheap, widely used, and durable. But that durability means that plastics persist in the environment for decades. Images of swaths of the ocean or …
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- 9780262357975
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American independent inventors in an era of corporate R&D
"Looks at American independent inventors during the rise of corporate research and development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365707
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Worker leadership : America's secret weapon in the battle for industrial comp…
How can American manufacturing recapture its former dominance in the globalized industrial economy? In Worker Leadership, Fred Stahl proposes a strategy to boost enterprise productivity and restore America's industrial power. Stahl outlines a revolutionary transformation of industrial culture that offers workers real control of production operations and manufacturing processes (as well as a mon…
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- 9781461943822
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Making in America : from innovation to market
"America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, locates its production in China (yet still reaps most of its profits in the United States). When innovation does not find the capital, skills, and expertise it needs to come to …
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- 9780262316835
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
This work explores how the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295727
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- 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) :illustrations
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Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the ori…
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- 9780262347501
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Designing publics
Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly embedded themselves in every aspect of modern life -- conducting commerce, maintaining and extending our networks of friends, and mobilizing political movements all occur through a growing collection of devices and services designed to keep and hold our attention. Yet what happens when our attention needs to be more local, collective, and focu…
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- 9780262337083
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- 1 online resource (xv, 151 pages).
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Enabling Horizontal Collaboration Through Continuous Relational Learning
Now that supply chain operations are facing new challenges due to the necessity of reducing costs and CO2 emissions, companies are increasingly leveraging cooperation from companies from other supply chains as a source of competitive advantage. Horizontal Collaboration has been proved an efficient tool for cutting logistic costs up to 49%. Zaragoza Logistics Center, member of the MIT-Scale N…
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- 978-3-319-08093-2
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
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Environmental Management the Supply Chain Perspective
In view of the increasing quest for environmental management in businesses, this book provides a good reference to firms to understand how they may manage their supply chains to improve business and environmental performance. The book consists of six chapters covering such topics as environmental management, environmental management practices with supply chain efforts, collaborative environment…
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- 978-3-319-23681-0
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- XI, 140
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Integrated Management Systems
Examining the challenges of integrated management, this book explores the importance and potential benefits of using an integrated approach as a cross-functional concept of management. It covers not only standardized management systems (e.g. International Organization for Standardization), but also models of self-assessment, as well as different types of integration. Furthermore, it demonstrate…
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