Industries Professions category: 12443 books
Chips and Change
How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage.
For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors,...
Gender and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Occupations
Women Working in Construction and Transport
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Examining women’s diverse experiences of male-dominated work, this ground-breaking book explores what sexuality and gender means to women working in the construction and transport industries. Using accounts from heterosexual women and lesbians working in professional, manual and operational roles,...
Aviation and Tourism
Implications for Leisure Travel
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Transport is an essential element of tourism, providing the vital link between the tourist generating areas and destinations. Good accessibility, which is determined by the transport services provided, is a fundamental condition for the development of any tourist destination. Moreover the transport...
by John Medkeff Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
While Delaware maintains one of the oldest beer-brewing traditions in the United States, its history has largely been lost or forgotten over the course of nearly four centuries. Beer was a main source of sustenance to Delaware's early European settlers, and its production eventually became one of...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Volume 11 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites came largely from agriculture that relied on the forced...
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy
Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
An examination of the politics of green jobs that foresees a potential ideological shift away from neoliberalism toward “developmentalism.”
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy is the first book to explore the broad implications of the convergence of industrial and environnmental policy...
Small Investor Playbook
Analyze Companies Like the Pros
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This book offers the small investor unique assistance that is not found in other publications offering investment advice. The small investor is, in effect, competing with professional money managers, who are often on the opposite side of a trade. If a stock is becoming cheaper because institutions...
The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals)
The Effects of Government Policy, 1945-79
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.
Rather...
Workers' Rights and Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains
Is a Social Label the Answer?
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance in global manufacturing industries. It does...
Verizon Untethered
An Insider's Story of Innovation and Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Verizon leadership team stands apart from most leadership teams today in their willingness repeatedly to put the enterprise before the individual. At first blush, this might look like a hopelessly old-fashioned notion in the age of the selfie. Yet, I would argue this is a trait that future leaders...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The economic analysis of the digital economy has been a rapidly developing research area for more than a decade. Through authoritative examination by leading scholars, this handbook takes a closer look at particular industries, business practices, and policy issues associated with the digital industry....
Media Product Portfolios
Issues in Management of Multiple Products and Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Media product portfolios are rapidly becoming the predominant shared characteristic of media companies worldwide. The phenomenon involves firms from all kinds of media--newspapers, magazines, television, radio, cinema--and is found in enterprises ranging from small, local firms to large, globalized...
by Saeid Mokhatab, John Y. Mak, Jaleel V. Valappil
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a commercially attractive phase of the commodity that facilitates the efficient handling and transportation of natural gas around the world. The LNG industry, using technologies proven over decades of development, continues to expand its markets, diversify its supply...
The Plot to Save the Planet
How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to to Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
American entrepreneurs, corporate tycoons, and financiers are plotting what they do best—creating new industries that change the world and making billions in the process—a plot that will ultimately save the planet.
The Plot to Save the Planet is an illuminating and inspiring look at the...