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  • Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

    Edited by Roland Clift, Angela Druckman ...
    How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient, material-efficient economies? What are the environmental and social impacts of global supply chains and how can they be measured and ... Read more

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  • Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    This book analyses regional development policy or the lack thereof in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which forms a key trading bloc on the African continent as well as the Global South. It explores the main attributes relevant to the formulation of regional policy in terms of socio-economic policies as well as spatial planning instruments. Further, it integrates macro and ... Read more

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  • People, Places and Policy

    Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

    The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2023)

    Series Book 259 - Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
    This is an open access book.Management science aims to study the dynamic study of human use of limited resources in management activities to achieve organizational goals: complex and innovative social behavior and its laws. And engineering management refers to the management of important and complex new products, equipment and devices in the process of development, manufacturing and production, ... Read more

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  • Managing Future Challenges for Safety

    Demographic Change, Digitalisation and Complexity in the 2030s

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book addresses the future of work and industry by 2040—a core interest for many disciplines inspiring a strong momentum for employment and training within the industrial world. The future of industrial safety in terms of technological risk-management, although of obvious concern to international actors in various industries, has been quite sparsely addressed. This brief reflects ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Railway and Transportation (ICORT 2022)

    Series Book 220 - Advances in Engineering Research
    This is an open access book.Politeknik Perkeretaapian Indonesia Madiun, Indonesia, presents ICORT 2022 “Innovative for Smart, Sustainable and Safe Transportation Systems,” as its main focus. In response to several world challenges, such as sustainable development, transportation issues, global convergence of information and communications technologies, along with smart systems as opportunities as ... Read more

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  • Questioning the Entrepreneurial State

    Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy

    Series Book 53 - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
    The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial development. The continuing aftereffects of such policies range from the rise and seeming success of authoritarian states, rise of populist and protectionist trends, and evolving ... Read more

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  • Digital Transformation in Semiconductor Manufacturing

    Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd European Advances in Digital Transformation Conference, EADTC 2018, Zittau, Germany and EADTC 2019, Milan, Italy

    Series Book 670 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
    This open access book reports on cutting-edge electrical engineering and microelectronics solutions to foster and support digitalization in the semiconductor industry. Based on the outcomes of the European project iDev40, which were presented at the two first conference editions of the European Advances in Digital Transformation**Conference (EADCT 2018 and EADTC 2019), the book covers different, ... Read more

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  • Next Generation Supply Chains

    A Roadmap for Research and Innovation

    Series series Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering
    This open access book explores supply chains strategies to help companies face challenges such as societal emergency, digitalization, climate changes and scarcity of resources. The book identifies industrial scenarios for the next decade based on the analysis of trends at social, economic, environmental technological and political level, and examines how they may impact on supply chain processes ... Read more

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  • The Circular Economy in Europe

    Critical Perspectives on Policies and Imaginaries

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Sustainability and Governance
    The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular economy entered the stage of European policy-making in the efforts to reconcile environmental and economic policy objectives. In 2019 the European Commission declared in a press release that the Circular ... Read more

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  • The Regulator–Regulatee Relationship in High-Hazard Industry Sectors

    New Actors and New Viewpoints in a Conservative Landscape

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book addresses relationships that develop from the complex set of legislative, regulatory, and institutional arrangements that arise in the governance of high-hazard industries, especially those connected with safety. It analyses the difference in practices between high-hazard sectors such as nuclear power, chemical processing, and transport with those in the finance and ... Read more

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  • Transaction Cost Management

    Strategies and Practices for a Global Open Economy

    Series series Management for Professionals
    All organizations, institutions, business processes, markets and strategies have one aim in common: the reduction of transaction costs. This aim is pursued relentlessly in practice, and has been perceived to bring about drastic changes, especially in the recent global market and the cyber economy. This book analyzes and describes “transactions” as a model, on the basis of which organizations, ... Read more

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  • Co-creation for Responsible Research and Innovation

    Experimenting with Design Methods and Tools

    Series Book 15 - Springer Series in Design and Innovation
    This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the SISCODE (Society in Innovation and Science through CO-DEsign) project, funded by the EU under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to set up an analytical, reflective and learning framework to explore the transformations in initiatives and policies emerging from the interaction between citizens and stakeholders. The book ... Read more

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  • Competition Authorities in South Eastern Europe

    Building Institutions in Emerging Markets

    Series series Contributions to Economics
    This open access book provides answers to key open questions concerning competition policy in emerging economies, with a focus on South Eastern Europe. The contributions address two major issues. One is the design of competition policy and the national competition authorities that enforce it, including the topics of competition advocacy and state aid control; the other is the use of economic ... Read more

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  • Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

    What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This open access collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each carefully selected paper provides valuable insights for improved policy making and defines relevant strategic priorities on Africa’s sustainable transformation ... Read more

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  • Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

    by Sami Moisio ...
    We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a ... Read more

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  • Family Business and Regional Development

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development.Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that these ... Read more

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  • Safety in the Digital Age

    Sociotechnical Perspectives on Algorithms and Machine Learning

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book gathers authors from a wide range of social-scientific and engineering disciplines to review challenges from their respective fields that arise from the processes of social and technological transformation taking place worldwide. The result is a much-needed collection of knowledge about the integration of social, organizational and technical challenges that need to be tackled ... Read more

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  • Safe Performance in a World of Global Networks

    Case Studies, Collaborative Practices and Governance Principles

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book provides an analytical and critical outlook, by leading scholars, of the impact of various trends in the quality of collaboration and resulting safety outcomes that arise from the evolution of traditional integrated production within a single firm into a complex web of partnerships and supply chains. In the face of increasing fragmentation within industrial production and the ... Read more

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  • Unmanaged

    In the frantic pursuit of equity money, a merger or an IPO, at some point we forgot about doing good technology and engineering. Once an activity where excellence, objectivity and a methodical approach were the norm, engineers have acquiesced to marketing departments, financiers and ambitious sales teams taking the helm, offering products that do not exist in schedules that are impossible to meet ... Read more

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  • The Solow Model of Economic Growth

    Application to Contemporary Macroeconomic Issues

    Series series Routledge Studies in Economic Theory, Method and Philosophy
    In 1956, Solow proposed a neoclassical growth model in opposition or as an alternative to Keynesian growth models. The Solow model of economic growth provided foundations for models embedded in the new theory of economic growth, known as the theory of endogenous growth, such as the renowned growth models developed by Paul M. Romer and Robert E. Lucas in the 1980s and 90s. The augmentations of the ... Read more

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  • Organizational Studies

    An organization is any group of persons with a common objective. Simply put, two or more people may band together to form an organization because they determine that working together is a more effective means for creating value than if each of them continued to work separately. This book provides a brief introduction to the theory and study of organizations, sometimes referred to as organizational ... Read more

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  • Unpaid Work and the Economy

    A Gender Analysis of the Standards of Living

    Edited by Antonella Picchio ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender issues and covers every conceivable angle of unpaid work and all its ramifications for the modern economy ... Read more

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  • Spatial Justice and Cohesion

    The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development

    Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a ... Read more

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