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Urban mobility and freight distribution service: best practices and lessons learnt in the MEROPE Interreg III B project

Frosini, Paolo; Huntingford, Jessica; Ambrosino, Giorgio - In: European Transport \ Trasporti Europei (2004) 28, pp. 44-56

telematic instruments to manage mobility and logistics in urban and metropolitan areas, in order to promote the development and … the analysis and definition of mobility, transport and logistics chain features, with particular attention to their … economic, social and political context of mobility and logistics, in order to identify what Merope has brought to the sector …

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Crop management based on field observations: Case studies in sugarcane and coffee

Cock, James; Oberthür, Thomas; Isaacs, Camilo; … - In: Agricultural Systems 104 (2011) 9, pp. 755-769

operations so as to improve them, to manage crops better. The article describes two cases, coffee and sugarcane, in which …

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The Manufacturing Industry – Coping with Challenges

Dingli, David J. - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2012

The perception of many people who live in the developed economies of Europe and America are often heard saying that the days of manufacturing are numbered in these countries and that China is the new “factory of the world”. This paper demonstrates how far from reality such a broad sweeping...

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Innovation and waste in supply chain management

Peitz, Martin; Shin, Dongsoo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (2013) C, pp. 191-199

We study a supply chain relationship in which the buyer outsources production of a component to the supplier. The buyer also produces a component and combines it with the supplier's input to yield the final output. The supplier can upgrade production of his input via costly innovation. Neither...

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The ‘advancedness’ of knowledge in pollution-saving technological change with a qualitative application to SO2 cap and trade

Grover, David - In: Ecological Economics 89 (2013) C, pp. 123-134

This paper investigates the extent to which ‘advanced’ knowledge and technology played a role in the SO2 compliance process in electric power plants under the US SO2 cap and trade program. It investigates the hypothesis that advanced knowledge and technology dedicated to pollution abatement...

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Supply chain trust: The catalyst for collaborative innovation

Fawcett, Stanley E.; Jones, Stephen L.; Fawcett, Amydee M. - In: Business Horizons 55 (2012) 2, pp. 163-178

Trust is at the heart of a collaborative innovation capability. Without a foundation of trust, collaborative alliances can neither be built nor sustained. Using a two-stage qualitative research method, we discovered that managers understand neither the nature of trust nor the dynamics of trust...

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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening

Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

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Knowledge, complexity and networks

Saviotti, Pier Paolo - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2011

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Technology and the dynamics of specialization in open economies.

Stolpe, Michael - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1995

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