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  • Labor in the Era of Globalization

    Edited by Clair Brown, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michael Reich ...
    The third quarter of the twentieth century was a golden age for labor in the advanced industrial countries, characterized by rising incomes, relatively egalitarian wage structures, and reasonable levels of job security. The subsequent quarter-century has seen less positive performance along a number of these dimensions. This period has instead been marked by rapid globalization of economic ... Read more

    $115.69 USD

  • Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective

    Edited by Barry J. Eichengreen, T.J. Hatton ...
    Series Book 43 - NATO Science Series D
    High unemployment has been one of the most disturbing features of the economy of the 1980s. For a precedent, one must look to the interwar period and in particular to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It follows that recent years have been marked by a resurgence of interest amongst academics in interwar unemployment. The debate has been contentious. There is nothing like the analysis of a period ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    In his best-selling book Japanese Manufacturing Techniques, Richard J. Schonberger revolutionized American manufacturing theory and, more important, practice. In that breakthrough book, he revealed that Japanese manufacturing excellence was not culturally bound. Offering the first demystified explanation of the simple techniques that fueled Japan's industrial success, he demonstrated how the same ... Read more

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  • Continuous Process Improvement

    by George D. Robson ...
    During the past decade Japanese companies have derived many of their competitive advantages from streamlined work-flow processes. Desperate to replicate the Japanese systems, American managers have bought into countless theories advanced by management consultants which, lacking a methodology, have proved fruitless and frustrating. Now, from inside a world-renowned learning organization, comes that ... Read more

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  • Modern Economic Regulation

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    by Christopher Decker ...
    Drawing from the most recent work on economic regulation, this book introduces readers to the main principles and examines how economic regulation is applied in four key public utility industries - electricity, gas, water and telecommunications. Written for students and practitioners with little prior knowledge of economic regulation, this is an accessible, non-technical entry point to the subject ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Public-Private Partnership Projects in Infrastructure

    An Essential Guide for Policy Makers

    by Jeffrey Delmon ...
    Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, healthcare, and achieving many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help; they provide more efficient procurement, focus on consumer satisfaction and life cycle maintenance, and ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions

    by Lionel Laroche ...
    'Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions' provides managers of technical professionals with clear and tested strategies to improve communication and increase productivity among culturally diverse technical professionals, teams, and departments.Dr. Laroche outlines the differences in education and training, career expectations, communication styles, and management expectations in ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Public Management

    Organizations, Governance, and Performance

    by Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr, Kenneth J. Meier ...
    How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be estimated? The fate of public policies in today's world lies in the hands of public organizations, which in ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • The Executive's Compass

    Business and the Good Society

    by James O'Toole ...
    American society has become increasingly polarized by single- and special-interest groups: the Greens, who demand environmental purity; admirers of Japan who want a national industrial policy; supply-side economists who want government to all but disappear. This collision of values has turned America into a battleground of either/or tradeoffs: the community vs. the individual, the environment vs. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Trucking Country

    The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

    by Shane Hamilton ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America
    Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial ... Read more

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  • On the Origin of Products

    The Evolution of Product Innovation and Design

    by Arthur O. Eger, Huub Ehlhardt ...
    In this new work, Arthur O. Eger and Huub Ehlhardt present a 'Theory of Product Evolution'. They challenge the popular notion that we owe the availability of products solely to genius inventors. Instead, they present arguments that show that a process of variation, selection, and accumulation of 'know-how' (to make) and 'know-what' (function to realize) provide an explanation for the emergence of ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Practical Control Engineering: Guide for Engineers, Managers, and Practitioners

    Guide for Engineers, Managers, and Practitioners

    by David M. Koenig ...
    An Essential Guide to Control Engineering FundamentalsUnderstand the day-to-day procedures of today's control engineer with the pragmatic insights and techniques contained in this unique resource. Written in clear, concise language, Practical Control Engineering shows, step-by-step, how engineers simulate real-world phenomena using dynamic models and algorithms. Learn how to handle single and ... Read more

    $96.39 USD