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  • Southern China

    Industry, Development and Industrial Policy

    by Marco R. Di Tommaso, Lauretta Rubini, Elisa Barbieri ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    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 in the last three decades are unique, even with respect to the more general and often cited Chinese experience. But what role have governments played in these decades of growth? What are ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Globalization of China’s Health Industry

    Industrial Policies, International Networks and Company Choices

    by Marco R. Di Tommaso, Francesca Spigarelli, Elisa Barbieri, Lauretta Rubini ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores the ongoing transition of China’s economy by examining how its healthcare industry is growing and changing. The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced one of the authors' key points: in our complex, fragile, and interconnected societies, the production of health is a vital strategic ‘industry’. The case of China is particularly salient, because of its economic and geopolitical ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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  • Factory Man

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  • Designing Reality

    How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution

    by Neil Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld ...
    That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anythingTwo digital revolutions -- computing and communication -- have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are only the start of a trend, accelerating exponentially, to turn data into objects: Neil Gershenfeld and ... Read more

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  • H.J. Heinz Company

    by Debbie Foster, Jack Kennedy ...
    Series series Images of America
    A photographic history of one of America's oldest and best-loved companies, and a study in how to "do the common thing uncommonly well."In 1869, the American diet was a dreary affair. Kitchen staples included bread, potatoes, other root vegetables, and meat. Tomatoes—at the time called "love apples"—were an exotic fruit. Then, twenty-five-year-old Henry J. Heinz helped to change all of that.Heinz ... Read more

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  • Zippo Manufacturing Company

    by Linda L. Meabon ...
    Series series Images of America
    A photographic history of the family-owned Pennsylvania company that became a household name and a global success story.The Zippo Manufacturing Company was founded in 1932 in Bradford, Pennsylvania, by George G. Blaisdell, who designed the first Zippo lighter in 1933; since then, Zippo has produced nearly four hundred million lighters. The product line eventually expanded to include tape measures ... Read more

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  • The New European Industrial Policy

    Global Competitiveness and the Manufacturing Renaissance

    by Franco Mosconi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the European Economy
    The years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the manufacturing industry. The United States has launched its Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, and China owes much of its spectacular economic boom in the last decades to its being the 'world's factory'. Is there room for the EU in this landscape? This timely new book explores Europe’s role in this evolving ... Read more

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  • On Time, In Full

    Achieving Perfect Delivery with Lean Thinking in Purchasing, Supply Chain, and Production Planning

    by Timothy McLean ...
    "On Time-In Full" is an important work. Tim McLean provides an easy to follow practical approach to building a highly performing supply chain"-Drew Locher, Shingo Prize Winning Author and Lean ThinkerThe most fundamental requirement for a manufacturing or distribution business is to deliver to customers what they want, in the quantity they want, when they want it. It doesn’t matter how good your ... Read more

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  • Simple

    Killing Complexity for a Lean and Agile Organization

    by Barry L. Cross ...
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  • On the Origin of Products

    The Evolution of Product Innovation and Design

    by Arthur O. Eger, Huub Ehlhardt ...
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  • An Economic History of the American Steel Industry

    by Robert P. Rogers ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    This book provides a basic outline of the history of the American steel industry, a sector of the economy that has been an important part of the industrial system. The book starts with the 1830's, when the American iron and steel industry resembled the traditional iron producing sector that had existed in the old world for centuries, and it ends in 2001. The product of this industry, steel, is an ... Read more

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