Sustainable excellence and continuous improvement approaches in SMEs -- Sustainable excellence and continuous improvement approaches in SMEs -- Achieving environmental excellence through Lean and green in SMEs -- Lean six sigma and sustainability: from total quality to total sustainability --...

Industrialisierung und De-Industrialisierung? -- TEIL I: Erklärung der Industriellen Entwicklung -- TEIL II: Wertschöpfungsketten und Digitalisierung -- TEIL III: Implikationen für Unternehmen und Staat -- Unternehmensstrategische Herausforderungen. - Wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen.

Do Machines Dream of Electric Workers? New frontiers in the debate on technology, structure, and strategy -- Organizing for Industry 4.0 -- Consequences in the Workplace After Industry 4.0 Adoption: A multiple case study of Italian Manufacturing Organisations -- Remote locations are not all the...

Rise of Manufacturing Nation -- Industrialization Process of 40 Years -- The development of China’s Manufacturing -- Opportunities and Challenges of China’s Manufacturing -- Resolving Overcapacity -- Technological Innovation in Manufacturing Industry -- Intelligent Manufacturing -- Green...

This volume explores the ways in which knowledge and innovation impact business and economic sustainability, offering a wide-ranging and richly illustrated study of knowledge, innovation and sustainability of organizations from a dynamic capabilities perspective. In organizational theory,...

Introduction: An Overview of the Research -- Business Incubation -- Entrepreneurship, Opportunities and Entrepreneurial Learning -- Research Methods -- The INNOSPACE Experience -- The Role of Prior Knowledge in Opportunity Identification -- Learning and Opportunity Development in INNOSPACE --...

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement. It focuses primarily on strategies that can be adopted by small and middle-sized enterprises in manufacturing in order to meet the global challenges and competition. The book...

Introduction: The Knowledge Ladder 4.0 - Value Creation in the Digitally Enabled Economy -- Part I: Digitally Enabled Enrichment of Resources to Leverage Human Performance -- Part II: Collaboration and Networking -- Part III: Leading and Learning 4.0 -- Part IV: New Forms of Knowledge-intensive...