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Business with a Higher Purpose: 40 Years of Serving & Leading

by Paul H. Weaver

This book is about the 40 yr. journey & Leadership principals that have taken Weaver Leather from a small 3 person, Mom & pop operation to 300 employees & Number one status in the industry.The secrets to our...

Southern China: Industry, Development and Industrial Policy

by Marco R. Di Tommaso, Lauretta Rubini & Elisa Barbieri

By concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing, this volume offers a contribution to contemporary industry studies.

The rates of growth that have characterized the southern Guangdong province...

The New Industrial Revolution

by Peter Marsh

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies"—the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan—are being...

Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomeration and Externalities: Empirical Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Industries

by Jacob A. Jordaan

By critically appraising current theories of both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and agglomeration, this book explores the variety of links that exist between these two externality-creating phenomena and, for...

Surrender: How British industry gave up the ghost 1952-2012

by Nicholas Comfort

British industry at the start of the New Elizabethan Age was a world leader. The first – British – jet airliner was taking to the skies, the first nuclear power station was under construction at Calder Hall...

Globalization and Self-Regulation

by S. Prakash Sethi

It is imperative for the business community to act now to create global, industry-wide standards of conduct. Corporate strategy expert S. Prakash Sethi along with notable experts on issues of global codes of...

Food Supply Chain Management

by Madeleine Pullman & Zhaohui Wu

Food Supply Chain Management:Economic, Social and Environmental Perspectives is very different from parts supply chain management as can be seen from the increasing health, safety and environmental concerns...

Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

by Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons & Tabatha Wallington

As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues of food production...

The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry

by Maki Umemura

This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only a minor player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Japan...

Get Out of the Way: How to manage development of timely, innovative, and relevant products

by John Levy

Would you believe that high-tech teams often work best when you, the manager, 'Get Out of the Way'? Though you may have once been a member of a product development team yourself, as a manager at a high-tech...

42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China: A practical handbook for doing business in China, special economic zones, factory tours and manufact

by Rosemary Coates & Laura Lowell

Doing business in China is tougher than you think. Not only is the culture vastly different, but China's experience in manufacturing is still developing. It will be a few years before the majority of manufacturers...

Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint

by Bill Yenne

A perfectly poured history of the world's greatest beer.

"Joseph Conrad was wrong. The real journey into the Heart of Darkness is recounted within the pages of Bill Yenne's fine book. Guinness (the beer) is a...