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This book examines the technology that is transferred in Mexico's Silicon Valley and the role that institutions of higher education and foreign electronics corporations play in the process. Riveria Vargas delineates that

A comprehensive analysis of the future of oil that assesses the present realities and prospects of the oil sector, tracing the growth of alternative and renewable energy sources and examining the impact

Credits Japan's industrial success to innovation and training, looking at the pre-War period and in depth at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard. The book has implications for industrial development worldwide.

This text takes an innovative look at the Industrial Revolution in order to stimulate interest and elicit new responses. It studies the way the classical economists viewed natural resources and how the

This study considers the future of industrial relations in Japan in the face of increasing economic pressures. It outlines recent trends in Japanese labour markets, labour law and corporate strategy and examines

This text uses original research to assess the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations and provides a theory of innovation in non-market and non-profit conditions. In the ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF

While past studies of Japanese multinational companies in the West have typically assumed stereotyped differences in management systems and work cultures, Japanese Bankers in the City of London focuses on the real

Down-to-earth and taking into account the critically important characteristics unique to public services, this will be an illuminating text both for managers and policy makers already working in the public sector.

Drawing on economics, organisational theory and politics, Jan-Erik Lane presents new public management from an analytical perspective.

Project managers and professionals in construction real estate, civil engineering and transport planning need to base their decisions on realistic information. For this they require a sound understanding of risk and of

What we do during the day and night is the result of much political struggle. This title allows the reader to track the differences in the cultural importance given to the night,

This book takes the approach that all local economic clusters have something in common. It does this by putting specific case studies into a wider perspective.

Across the western world, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workplace learning, seen at the level of national and international policy, as well as in the developing practices of

This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made

This work argues that Modern novelists deployed the figure of the dying man to examine the trauma of cultural change and the crisis of masculinity during the transition period.

This book brings together contributions from some of the leading researchers and practising engineers in the field of silos and containment structures, and is derived from a specially invited colloquium on the

This work explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on the interactions among technological, economic and geographic factors. It examines

This book provides a variety of answers in its description and discussion of new, sometimes radical approaches to `usability evaluation', now an increasingly common business tool. It contains new thinking of the

Provides a diverse and multi-faceted look at some of the themes directing late-1990s research and intervention within the area of occupational injury and safety.

Occupational injury is a major and often preventable health problem in the work environment. Each year throughout the world millions are affected by traumatic occupational injuries and many thousands are actually killed