Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über ausgewählte Forschungsfelder im Industrial-Management. Der Bogen reicht von der Geschäftsmodellinnovation über agile Produktion, vom Informationssystemdesign bis hin zur intelligenten, lernorientierten Instandhaltung. In der Techno-Ökonomie tritt die...

Produktivitätsmanagement industrieller Dienstleistungen -- Produktivitätsbenchmarking -- Dienstleistungseffizienz im Gesundheitswesen -- Effizienz im Kundenbeziehungsmanagement -- Produktivitätsmanagement in Aus- und Weiterbildung durch Service Engineering.

In zunehmend gesättigten Märkten können Hersteller von Sachgütern kaum noch Wettbewerbsvorteile über den Preis erlangen. Da die Kundenzufriedenheit maßgeblich zum wirtschaftlichen Erfolg der Kernleistungen beiträgt, ist eine korrekte und qualitativ hochwertige Ausführung von...

Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

Analyzes quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the 20th century, more specifically, 1957-97

The dynamics of industry growth, technology and globalization have a dramatic impact on the current economic growth of nations, significantly changing the market structure and world trade, and challenging the competitive equilibrium and their guiding principles. In the world of innovations and...

This book examines the new conditions under which professional work, often referred to as “knowledge-intensive work,” is organised and how professional groups who have traditionally been granted jurisdictional discretion now have their work routines renegotiated. In the new economic regime...

‘The authors explore how individual motivations in collectivistic societies such as Saudi Arabia may be different from those in individualistic Western societies. They demonstrate how one such theory, the widely accepted Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, is bounded by culture, religion, and...