Product Description: This wide-ranging reader locates supply chain management, lean production and related practice within the holistic concept of total product systems.Demonstrates the strategic relevance of managing supply chains and supply networks to organizational performance and to a range of business functions, including finance, design, production, environmental management, information systems, and marketing...read more

Product Description: This wide-ranging reader locates supply chain management, lean production and related practice within the holistic concept of total product systems. It emphasizes the importance of effective management of supply chains and supply networks across all stages of the complete ‘cradle-to-grave’ product life cycle, including the phases of purchase by consumers and other end users, product use and support, and end-of-life reprocessing...read more

Product Description: A group of women labourers leave Rajasthan after another failed harvest to work on a construction site in Delhi.

Product Description: An adaptation of Lorca's "Yerma". The Punjabi community in Britain may have traded fertile plains for factory shops but many old values linger on.

Product Description: Amway distributors tout their business as "the best business opportunity in the world." Yet of the five million or so Americans whove been involved over its 40 year history, fewer than 1% have made a profit, and fewer than one-tenth of one percent have established the large incomes that they claim are achievable by all...read more

Product Description: This book concentrates on women in professional engineering in the light of the increasing number of women entering traditionally masculine professions in the last 20 years. The book raises the question of whether the price women engineers pay for their success is too high...read more

Discusses issues in the education of catalogers, cataloging courses, on-the-job training, serials cataloging, the online catalog, and the Library of Congress cataloging staff

Product Description: This introduction to organizational analysis and change is written in a lively, pictorial and concise style. It starts from the belief that one cannot act responsibly without a rounded understanding of both the context and the likely implications of one's actions...read more

Product Description: This introduction to organizational analysis and change is written in a lively, pictorial and concise style. It starts from the belief that one cannot act responsibly without a rounded understanding of both the context and the likely implications of one's actions...read more