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Offshoring Strategies: Evolving Captive Center Models

Oshri, Ilan - The MIT Press

evolve to meet different business needs. The case studies, all based on the Fortune Global 250, include the development of a …

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Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice

Dalkir, Kimiz - The MIT Press

The ability to manage knowledge has become increasingly important in today’s knowledge economy. Knowledge is considered a valuable commodity, embedded in products and in the tacit knowledge of highly mobile individual employees. Knowledge management (KM) represents a deliberate and systematic...

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ADB Brief 23: Using Information and Communication Technology to Support Women’s Entrepreneurship in Central and West Asia

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

communication technology (ICT) can be used to support business activity and overcome challenges specific to women, (ii) the barriers …

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Operations Forensics: Business Performance Analysis Using Operations Measures and Tools

Lai, Richard - The MIT Press

Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm’s operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and influence the valuation of a firm. It is the first to present these...

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Leading Open Innovation

Huff, Anne Sigismund (contributor) - The MIT Press

In today’s competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations including Siemens, Nokia, Wikipedia, Hyve, and innosabi may launch...

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Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth

Sheffi, Yoss - The MIT Press

logistics clusters--geographically concentrated sets of logistics-related business activities. In this book, supply chain …

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Working Together in Pursuit of Inclusive Business: Sharing the Latin American and Caribbean Experience with Asia and the Pacific: A Retrospective

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

partnership on South–South cooperation. One of the priority topics for this inter-institutional cooperation is inclusive business … grant-financed technical assistance projects. ADB recently created its Inclusive Business Initiative to provide specific … the pursuit of inclusive business. It is part of the IDB–ADB cooperation on knowledge exchange between the two regional …

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America's Assembly Line

Nye, David E. - The MIT Press

The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin’s little tramp...

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The Challenges of Doing Business in Papua New Guinea: An Analytical Summary of the 2012 Business Environment Survey by the Institute of National Affairs

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

the 2002 and 2007 surveys and shows that, while the business environment has improved since 2002, doing business in Papua … New Guinea remains extremely challenging. Continued concerted efforts to improve the business environment will help …

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Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

In 2011, Uzbekistan celebrated 20 years of independence. The transition has not been smooth for any country in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality. The status of women and men in Uzbekistan is...

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