Industries category: 12638 books
The Digital Hand
How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
In The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's role in sixteen industries, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. economy. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada...
Artist Management
Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Artists are creative workers who drive growth in the creative and cultural industries. Managing artistic talent is a unique challenge, and this concise book introduces and analyses its key characteristics.
Artist Management: Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries makes a major contribution...
Industries without Smokestacks
Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa. Accelerating economic growth is key to rising incomes on the continent, and central to this challenge is establishing activities that are capable of employing large numbers of unskilled workers, that can...
Experimental Capitalism
The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental Capitalism examines six key industries—automobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillin—and...
Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship
An Analysis of the European Textile and Apparel Industries
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
This book examines knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) with a focus on the European textile and apparel industries. The primary purpose is to review the extant academic literature related to the European textile and apparel industries and reflect on that review empirically using a new and robust...
Summary and Analysis of The Industries of the Future
Based on the Book by Alec Ross
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Industries of the Future tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Alec Ross’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
Cultural Industries in Shanghai
Policy and Planning inside a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Cultural Industries in Shanghai gathers articles by Chinese scholars that analyse the developments in Shanghai's cultural industries over the past 30 years. Like many cities in China and elsewhere, Shanghai has explicitly stated that fostering the creative economy is its top economic and political...
by Dennis P. Nolan, Eric T Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Applied Operational Excellence for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries offers a straightforward practical guide for oil and gas companies to understand the comparisons and contrasts between various types of safety management processes, including the standardized structure and ongoing extended benefits...
The EU's Government of Industries
Markets, Institutions and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU’s choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the headlines and highlighted the importance of EU decision-making arenas. However, these macro-economic events...
The Digital Hand, Vol 3
How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, turning finally to the public sector, and examining how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in government and education. This book goes far beyond...
Industrial Approaches to Media
A Methodological Gateway to Industry Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This guidebook, aimed at those interested in studying media industries, provides direction in ways best suited to collaborative dialogue between media scholars and media professionals.
While the study of media industries is a focal point at many universities around the world – promising,...
Advances in Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries
Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book addresses human factors research in energy, an emphasis on human factors applications in design, construction, and operation of nuclear, electrical power generation, and oil and gas assets. It discusses advanced strategies in the optimization of human and environmental performance, as well...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Alec Ross is no doubt a gifted writer. He works the delicate balance between being understood as clearly as possible, without diluting his facts easily. In the structure of the book, he arranges information in a way that is both relevant to the title and in a way the reader was able to understand....
by Bonita M. Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Successful marketing strategies are a vital aspect of any business. This textbook provides students and potential managers in the creative industries with a solid grounding in how to maximize the impact of their marketing efforts across a range of business types in the creative and cultural industries.
With...