This book offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability and management in India and through its insightful essays highlights the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability as a concept. It also demonstrates the debates surrounding the concept of sustainability and its ramifications...

This book investigates the existence of stochastic and deterministic convergence of real output per worker and the sources of output (physical capital per worker, human capital per worker, total factor productivity -TFP- and average annual hours worked) in 21 OECD countries over the period...

Part I: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Based on Ubiquitous Information. Overview -- The Features of Information Manufacturing Systems Based on Ubiquitous Perception -- Key Technologies. Part II: Environment Friendly Green Manufacturing. Overview -- Field Features -- Development Objectives and...

Enterprises have to react instantly to changing market conditions and disturbances that occur during execution of value creation processes. Depending upon the processes’ context, the goal is to significantly reduce lead times, reaction times, and time-to-market, among others. The vision of a...

1 Themenöffnung -- 1.1 Relevanz eines Controllingansatzes an der Schnittstelle zwischen Marketing und Produktion -- 1.2 Zielsetzung -- 1.3 Gang der Argumentation -- 2 Inhaltliche Grundlagen -- 2.1 Produkt- und Produktionsmanagement als Schnittstellenkontext -- 2.2 Ansatzpunkte zur inhaltlichen...

Grundlagen und Literaturanalyse zur Nachfragesteuerung in der Auftragsmontage -- Konzeptionelle Einführung, Modellierung und Analyse von Upgrade-Auktionen -- Ableitung von Handlungsempfehlungen für Entscheidungsträger in der Praxis.

Prologue -- Are You Meant to Be an Entrepreneur? -- Ideas to Shoot and Root for -- Technology Evaluation: Is it Ripe for Commercialisation? -- The Team - Recognising the Red Flags -- Patents: Whys and Hows, Protection Strategies for Your Innovation -- Investors: Choosing the Right Ones, Getthing...