Download or read book Highlights from the 2003 Observatory written by European Communities and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highlights from the 2003 Observatory written by and published by European Communities. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Observatory of European SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) covers the original 15 EU member states, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. This report summarises the eighth round of the Observatory carried out during the period July 2003 to June 2004. It contains eight chapters with the headings of: SMEs in Europe, business constraints, competence development, access to finance, the liberalisation of network industries, SMEs and co-operation, internationalisation of SMEs, and the impact of EU enlargement.

Download or read book High Technology Productivity and Networks written by Patrizio Bianchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in telecommunications and infrastructure, coupled with liberalization in international organizations, has introduced a number of new competitors to existing SMEs. This book analyzes strategic aspects of SME development that may help to promote growth: high-tech development, productivity increase, and strengthening of linkages.

Download or read book Manufacturing Systems and Technologies for the New Frontier written by Mamoru Mitsuishi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here are 112 papers concerned with all manner of new directions in manufacturing systems given at the 41st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems. The high-quality material presented in this volume includes reports of work from both scientific and engineering standpoints and several invited and keynote papers addressing the current cutting edge and likely future trends in manufacturing systems. The book’s subjects include: (1) new trends in manufacturing systems design: sustainable design, ubiquitous manufacturing, emergent synthesis, service engineering, value creation, cost engineering, human and social aspects of manufacturing, etc.; (2) new applications for manufacturing systems – medical, life-science, optics, NEMS, etc.; (3) intelligent use of advanced methods and new materials – new manufacturing process technologies, high-hardness materials, bio-medical materials, etc.; (4) integration and control for new machines – compound machine tools, rapid prototyping, printing process integration, etc.

Download or read book The Politics of Structural Reforms written by Hideko Magara and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume will be an excellent resource for political scientists specialized in political economy and industrial relations, labour economists and sociologists as well as policy practitioners and corporate governance specialists. Moreover,

Download or read book Organizations Evolving written by Howard E Aldrich and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-03-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative exploration of contemporary organisations and the ways they mirror their environment, Howard Aldrich and Martin Ruef chart the development of organisational forms, as well as assessing the impact on these of external innovations.

Download or read book Setting Knowledge Free The Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Volume 5 2008 written by Eli Cohen and published by Informing Science. This book was released on with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book SME Cluster Development written by M. Parrilli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretative key, which we call 'a stage and eclectic approach', to the development of clusters. This approach supports public efforts to increase the effectiveness of policy-making and development operations in local contexts.

Download or read book The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology written by Leslie Haddon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What shapes the role of Information and Communication Technologies in our everyday life? Despite the speed with which information and communication technologies such as the PC, mobile telephone and internet have found their way into society, there remains a good deal of debate surrounding their adoption and use. Through empirical studies covering a broad range of everyday life and work settings, this volume provides grounded insights into the social dynamics influencing how ICTs are both shaped and experienced. Specifically, the book examines the contributions of diverse disciplines to our understanding of these processes, the symbolic nature of technologies, the influence of design on the experience of ICTs, the role of users in influencing that design, the social constraints affecting the use of those technologies, and strategies for evaluating the social consequences of ICT innovations.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on E Transformation and Human Resources Management Technologies Organizational Outcomes and Challenges written by Bondarouk, Tanya and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides practical, situated, and unique knowledge on innovative e-HRM technologies and expands on theoretical conceptualizations of e-HRM.

Download or read book Interactive Learning for Innovation written by B. Asheim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies. Successful experiences in Scandanavia and southern European countries are examined, with insightful policy lessons extracted from each case.

Download or read book Dynamic Business Process Formation for Instant Virtual Enterprises written by Nikolay Mehandjiev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic Business Process Formation fuses practical needs with theoretical input to present important research innovations in supporting Instant Virtual Enterprises (IVEs). This new organization type brings a combination of business dynamism and explicit business process structure to domains where on-the-fly formation of well-organized business networks is required to deal with the complexity of new products or services under high time pressure. This book contains the main results of the IST CrossWork project, and, importantly, looks beyond the boundaries of this project and sources input from related projects and general trends in collaborative enterprises and the automotive industry. Both the business and technical aspects of Virtual Enterprise coordination are covered within the modular structure of the book, which enables readers from different backgrounds to benefit from the book according to their interests.

Download or read book Suiting Themselves written by Sharon Beder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly researched expos 'communications Rottweiler' Sharon Beder blasts open the backrooms and boardrooms to reveal how the international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. Beder shows how they created business associations andthink tanks in the 1970s to drive public policy, forced the worldwide privatization and deregulation of public services in the 1980s and 1990s (enabling a massive transfer of ownership and control over essential services) and, still not satisfied, have worked relentlessly since the late 1990s to rewrite the very rules of the global economy to funnel wealth and power into their pockets. Want a globalized and homogenized world of conflict, poverty and massive environmental degradation run by a corporate oligarchy that wipes its feet on democracy? Or a democratic world, where poverty is history, companies work for people and clean water is a right, not a privilege you pay for? Beder‘s message is clear - it‘s your world, and it‘s time to fight for it.

Download or read book Spatial Econometrics written by Giuseppe Arbia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Econometrics is a rapidly evolving field born from the joint efforts of economists, statisticians, econometricians and regional scientists. The book provides the reader with a broad view of the topic by including both methodological and application papers. Indeed the application papers relate to a number of diverse scientific fields ranging from hedonic models of house pricing to demography, from health care to regional economics, from the analysis of R&D spillovers to the study of retail market spatial characteristics. Particular emphasis is given to regional economic applications of spatial econometrics methods with a number of contributions specifically focused on the spatial concentration of economic activities and agglomeration, regional paths of economic growth, regional convergence of income and productivity and the evolution of regional employment. Most of the papers appearing in this book were solicited from the International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics held in Rome (Italy) in 2006.

Download or read book Rural micro enterprises in Polish transition written by Wadim Strielkowski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the situation of rural food-processing micro-enterprsies in Polish transition. The results presented in this book cover the period between the fall of Communist regime in Poland and the Polish accession to EU in May 2004. The book's focus and scope are quite unique since as opposed to relatively large literature dealing with micro-enterprises in developing countries it concentrates on rural micro-enterprises in post-transitional Eastern Europe. The book fills the gap in the prevailing micro-enterprises literature dealing predominantly either with first world or third world.

Download or read book Entrepreneurial Marketing for SMEs written by Luca Cacciolatti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurial Marketing for SMEs contextualizes the practice of marketing amongst SMEs, and critically discusses major issues of Entrepreneurial Marketing with a relevant and up-to-date academic body of knowledge.

Download or read book Pervasive Collaborative Networks written by Luis M. Camarinha-Matos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS Becoming a pervasive paradigm In recent years the area of collaborative networks is being consolidated as a new discipline (Camarinha-Matos, Afsarmanesh, 2005) that encompasses and gives more structured support to a large diversity of collaboration forms. In terms of applications, besides the “traditional” sectors represented by the advanced supply chains, virtual enterprises, virtual organizations, virtual teams, and their breading environments, new forms of collaborative structures are emerging in all sectors of the society. Examples can be found in e-government, intelligent transportation systems, collaborative virtual laboratories, agribusiness, elderly care, silver economy, etc. In some cases those developments tend to adopt a terminology that is specific of that domain; often the involved actors in a given domain are not fully aware of the developments in the mainstream research on collaborative networks. For instance, the grid community adopted the term “virtual organization” but focused mainly on the resource sharing perspective, ignoring most of the other aspects involved in collaboration. The European enterprise interoperability community, which was initially focused on the intra-enterprise aspects, is moving towards inter-enterprise collaboration. Collaborative networks are thus becoming a pervasive paradigm giving basis to new socio-organizational structures.