Chapter 1: A short history of builder’s wages in Economic History -- Chapter 2: The market for building -- Chapter 3: Contractors -- Chapter 4: Contracts and ways of working in the building trades -- Chapter 5: What did bosses (in London construction) do? -- Chapter 6: Contracts and Pay at St....

1. KRUSing into the Future: Restoring a Local Value Chain Through Cooperation -- 2. The Fate of Natural Fibres in Environmental Evaluations: A Question of Volume -- 3. Upping the WOOLUME: Waste Prevention Based on Optimal Use of Materials -- 4. Slow and Indigenous Approaches to Textile Arts --...

This book identifies factors of information system (IS) integration that influence supply chain agility and illustrates how IS integration can achieve greater supply chain agility. Also considering the consequent operational impacts that arise from IS-enabled supply chain agility, the author...

This book analyzes of the surplus of production capacity in China. According to a government statement, there is a serious surplus of productive capacity in the steel, cement, glass, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries. There was no surplus of productive capacity in above industries between...

This research focuses on the process of growth in the automobile industries in the ASEAN region. ASEAN is drawing attention both from the vantage point of its position as an automobile-producing region and as a potential automobile market. Thailand in particular has long treated automobile...

Part 1 The mechanical age: from the early years to the 1950s -- Part 2 The 1960s: towards convergence -- Part 3 The electronic and software age: a rapidly evolving landscape -- Part 4 The Digital Age: the changing face of marketing

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I. Definitional issues -- Chapter 2. Defining Craft: Hermeneutics and Economy -- Chapter 3. UNESCO approach to crafts -- Chapter 4. Making sense of craft using cultural economics -- Part II. Policies for crafts -- Chapter 5. Policies for craft: reasons and tools...

Dieses Lehrbuch macht Studierende und Lehrende aller Ingenieurdisziplinen mit den für sie relevanten betriebswirtschaftlichen Grundlagen und Methoden vertraut. Da die Entwicklung neuer Produkte meist langwierig und mit hohem Geldeinsatz verbunden ist, wird es immer wichtiger, dass sich...

Das Auto der Zukunft ist vernetzt und Teil des Internet of Things. Fahrzeughersteller, Telekommunikationsanbieter und IT-Riesen liefern sich eine Schlacht um die Hoheit im Connected Car. Dieses Buch zeigt die Potenziale von Autos mit Konnektivitätstechnologien für digitale Dienstleistungen,...