Industries category: 12638 books
by Alan B. Albarran
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Media Economy analyzes the media industries and its activities from macro to micro levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole. Representing a rapidly changing and evolving environment, this text breaks new ground through its analysis from...
Business Process Management within Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
Markets, BPM Methodology and Process Examples
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
As business processes are crucial success factors for companies, software-based Business Process Management (BPM) is becoming more and more important. In this area SAP, the market leader for enterprise application software, has already gathered substantial experience. For the characterization,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This book defines an agenda for research in information management and systems for media and entertainment industries. It highlights their particular needs in production, distribution, and consumption. Chapters are written by practitioners and researchers from around the world, who examine business...
Licensing, Selling and Finance in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries
The Commercialization of Intellectual Property
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Licensing, Selling and Finance in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries is an assessment of the turbulent state of pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets as we enter the second decade of the 21st Century. At the same time, the book offers a cautionary evaluation of the future financing of...
Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries
Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary...
Kochland
The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries reviews the changing regulatory environment, notably incentive regulation and competition in regulated industries. Some of the major changes in electricity, gas, and telephone utilities allow for competition in local service through unbundling. This book...
by Hemanta Saikia
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Industrialization has taken place in many parts of the world as a root to overcome poverty and unemployment. In this consideration, the important immediate issue is the effectiveness of industrialization programmes as a means towards accelerating economic development, since the industrial growth had...
by Catherine E. A. Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book provides a unique view of the evolution of these industries, drawing out how technology and economic forces have worked together to create platforms around which different companies interact. Through identifying the key aspects of this evolution over the past decades, the author is able...
Managing Media Firms and Industries
What's So Special About Media Management?
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This volume provides rich insight into the nature and practice of media management. Contributions assess the degree to which management of media firms requires a unique set of skills, highlighting similarities and differences of media firms compared with other industries in terms of management practices,...
Liberalization in Aviation
Competition, Cooperation and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The last few decades have witnessed substantial liberalization trends in various industries and countries. Starting with the deregulation of the US airline industry in 1978, regulatory restructuring took place in further network industries such as telecommunications, electricity or railways in various...
Digital Renaissance
What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries—and why that might be a good thing
The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries—music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed...
China's Technological Catch-Up Strategy
Industrial Development, Energy Efficiency, and CO2 Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Prior to 1979, China had a bifurcated and geographically-dispersed industrial structure made up of a relatively small number of large-scale, state-owned enterprises in various industries alongside numerous small-scale, energy-intensive and polluting enterprises. Economic reforms beginning in 1979...
Competitive Strategy
Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity—like all great breakthroughs—Porter’s analysis...