Made-to-Order Lean

Excelling in a High-Mix, Low-Volume Environment

By Greg Lane

Toyota Production System methods have rendered remarkable results in high-volume manufacturing plants, but they have not been fully understood and correctly applied in high-mix, low-volume...

2007 | Paperback: 978-1-56327-362-9 (Productivity Press)

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Vocational Education

International Approaches, Developments and Systems

Edited by Linda Clarke, Christopher Winch

Vocational education and training (VET) have a key role to play in raising skill levels and improving a society’s productivity. In this important new book,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38061-4 (Routledge)

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Human Resource Management in the Public Sector

Edited by Rona S. Beattie, Stephen P. Osborne

HRM is a core element in public service organizations, whose employees are often their most valuable resource. This outstanding book tackles the subject head on,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37292-3 (Routledge)

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Competing for Knowledge

Creating, Connecting, and Growing

By Robert Huggins, Hiro Izushi

Focusing on the dynamics of the knowledge economy, this volume provides an overview of the knowledge creation capabilities of economies, an examination of their growth...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37512-2 (Routledge)

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Economic Development, Education and Transnational Corporations

By Mark Hanson

In the early 1960s, Mexico and South Korea were agrarian societies and both equally undeveloped. The development strategies used by each country resulted in dramatically...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77116-0 (Routledge)

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International Corporate Governance

A Comparative Approach

By Thomas Clarke

Comprehensive and up-to-date, this important textbook analyzes the escalating crisis in corporate governance and the growing interest in its reform across the globe.

Written by...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32310-9 (Routledge)

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Organizational Identity in Practice

Edited by Lin Lerpold, Davide Ravasi, Johan van Rekom, Guillaume Soenen

Organizational Identity in Practice provides much-needed, in-depth studies on what happens when aspirations, claims and beliefs interact. Given the practical needs of managers and students,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39840-4 (Routledge)

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Recruiting, Training, and Retention of Science and Technology Librarians

Edited by Patricia A. Kreitz, JoAnn DeVries

Since the 1950s there has been a persistent shortage of sci-tech librarians, and as more librarians retire or change positions, the prospect looms that the...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-7890-3555-4 (Routledge)

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DOE Simplified, 2nd Edition

Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation

By Mark J. Anderson, Patrick J. Whitcomb

Offering a planned approach for determining cause and effect, this work provides researchers with the statistical means to analyze how numerous variables interact. With this...

2007 | Paperback: 978-1-56327-344-5 (Productivity Press)

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Microeconomics using Excel

Integrating Economic Theory, Policy Analysis and Spreadsheet Modelling

By Gerald Schwarz, Kurt Jechlitschka, Dieter Kirschke

Using Microsoft Excel, the market leading spreadsheet package, this book combines theory with modelling aspects and spreadsheet analysis. Microeconomics Using Excel provides students with the...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41787-7 (Routledge)

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