Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. traces their origins and worldwide development. From electronics prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and...

Today industrial enterprises are confronted with an increasing trend to focus on their core capabilities. By outsourcing certain activities to logistics providers or suppliers a company has the possibility to create a lean organization and decrease fixed costs. As a result supply chains gain...