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  • Logistics Competencies, Skills, and Training

    A Global Overview

    by Alan McKinnon, Christoph Flöthmann, Kai Hoberg, Christina Busch ...
    Series series World Bank Studies
    Despite the spread of automation and new supply chain management paradigms, logistics remains dependent on a rather specific set of skills and competencies, whether for managerial, administrative, or blue-collar jobs, such as trucking or warehousing. This dependence implies that the logistical performance of businesses, industries, and nation states is strongly influenced by the quantity and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Green Logistics

    Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Logistics

    Edited by Prof Alan McKinnon, Professor Michael Browne, Dr Anthony Whiteing, Maja Piecyk ...
    Leading the way in current thinking on environmental logistics, Green Logistics provides a unique insight on the environmental impacts of logistics and the actions that companies and governments can take to deal with them. It is written by leading researchers in the field and provides a comprehensive view of the subject for students, managers and policy-makers.Fully updated, the 3rd edition of ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Supply Chain Innovation for Competing in Highly Dynamic Markets: Challenges and Solutions

    Edited by Pietro Evangelista, Alan McKinnon, Edward Sweeney, Emilio Esposito ...
    Rapid changes in technological development are forcing businesses to continuously innovate to improve their competitiveness, which is particularly evident in logistics and supply chain management (SCM), where innovation impacts both the strategic and operational levels. Supply Chain Innovation for Competing in Highly Dynamic Markets: Challenges and Solutions investigates the role of innovation in ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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  • Decarbonizing Logistics

    Distributing Goods in a Low Carbon World

    by Prof Alan McKinnon ...
    Logistics accounts for around 9-10% of global CO2 emissions and will be one of the hardest economic sectors to decarbonize. This is partly because the demand for freight transport is expected to rise sharply over the next few decades, but also because it relies very heavily on fossil fuel. Decarbonizing Logistics outlines the nature and extent of the challenge we face in trying to achieve deep ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • Global HR Competencies: Mastering Competitive Value from the Outside-In

    by Dave Ulrich, Wayne Brockbank, Jon Younger, Mike Ulrich ...
    HR thought leader Dave Ulrich—bestselling author of HR Champions, The Why of Work, HR from the Outside In, and more--is back with his international colleagues to unpack and distill the finest, most up-to-the-moment thinking from the HR world. Indeed, this book looks at best practices from companies on every continent, offering an expert survey of universal and regional HR dos and don'ts.Because ... Read more

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  • Corporate Communication

    A Guide to Theory and Practice

    by Joep P. Cornelissen ...
    This popular, market-leading textbook for corporate communication continues to be the authoritative and definitive textbook for students and educators.The text has been updated to include:• changes to the workplace in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of hybrid working on employee communication• the ongoing impacts of digital disruption and transformation on corporate communication at ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Transport Revolutions

    Moving People and Freight Without Oil

    by Richard Gilbert, Anthony Perl ...
    Modern societies rely upon prodigious amounts of oil for transport activity. The impacts over the near term of increasing oil scarcity and higher prices on transport will be among the major challenges facing humanity and will require a revolution in thinking about how we move people and goods.Transport Revolutions analyzes five prior episodes of rapid and radical change in the way people and goods ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

    by Andreas Schafer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby, Ian A. Waitz ...
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  • South Africa’s Energy Transition

    A Roadmap to a Decarbonised, Low-cost and Job-rich Future

    by Tobias Bischof-Niemz, Terence Creamer ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
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    $34.99 USD

  • Strategic Communications for Nonprofits

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the Media

    by Kathy Bonk, Emily Tynes, Henry Griggs, Phil Sparks ...
    Series Book 8 - The Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Guidebook Series
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  • Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

    Technology, Incentives, Behavior

    Edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
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    $89.99 USD