Global intermediation and logistics service providers / / Laurence Saglietto and Cécile Cezanne [editors]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910160291203321
• Autore: Saglietto Laurence
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hershey, PA : , : IGI Global, , [2017]; ©2017
• ISBN: 9781522521341; 9781522521334
• Descrizione fisica: PDFs (412 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Advances in logistics, operations, and management science (ALOMS) book series
• Disciplina: 658.7
• Soggetti: Business logistics - Contracting out
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intermediary and intermediation: which logistics services? / Laurence Saglietto -- A framework for thinking intermediation in logistics management / Alban Quillaud -- Roles of intermediaries in developing resilient systems: a community approach to food micro-producers / Martin Hingley, Eliseo L. Vilalta-Perdomo -- 4PL intermediation: exploring dimensions of social capital / Nejib Fattam, Gilles Paché -- Exploring the role of open innovation intermediaries: the case of public research valorization / Pierre-Jean Barlatier, Eleni Giannopoulou, Julien Pénin -- Intermediation and innovation contests on the Internet: lessons from the study of two platforms / Isabelle Liotard, Valérie Revest -- Global supply chain management organization at Siemens in the advent of Industry 4.0 / Ioan Petrisor, Diana Cozmiuc -- The need for news forms of financial intermediation / Tristan Auvray, Thomas Dallery, Sandra Rigot -- Exploring the sources of the competitive advantage of logistics service providers / Eric Lambourdière, Jérôme Verny, Elsa Corbin -- Textile and clothing exporting firms' evaluation of LSPs' capabilities and logistics outsourcing performance / Yasmine El Meladi, Richard Glavee-Geo, Arnt Buvik -- The importance of logistics information technologies and knowledge management capabilities on intermediaries' performance / Meltem Yavuz, Burak Deligönül -- Convention and visitors bureau: a key intermediary in the events ; industry / Malgorzata Ogonowska --; International distribution: a cross-cultural reading of intermediation / François Cassière, Virginie Noireaux -- The roles of logistics service providers and supply chain integration in global supply chain / Kijpokin Kasemsap -- Perceived quality of an intermediary and its relations with image and perceived value: an insight from the case of airline alliances / Vikrant Janawade -- An overview of feeder services in the era of mega containerships / Olcay Polat.
• Sommario/riassunto: "[This book] is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on outsourcing strategies in contemporary business environments and examines the role of intermediaries in the dynamics of decision-making and process management. Highlighting pivotal discussions across a myriad of relevant topics, such as open innovation, competitive advantage, and social capital, this book is ideally designed for professionals, practitioners, researchers, and students interested in the impact of service providers within industrial organizations"--Provided by publisher.

Imperial San Francisco [[electronic resource] ] : urban power, earthly ruin : with a new preface / / Gray Brechin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781754203321
• Autore: Brechin Gray A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-283-29172-X; 9786613291721; 0-520-93348-6
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Collana: California studies in critical human geography ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 979.4/6
• Soggetti: Elite (Social sciences) - California - San Francisco Bay Area - History; Nature - Effect of human beings on - California - San Francisco Bay Area - History; Nature - Effect of human beings on - Pacific Area - History; Human ecology - California - San Francisco Bay Area - History; Land use - California - San Francisco Bay Area - History; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) Biography; San Francisco (Calif.) Biography; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) Environmental conditions; Pacific Area Environmental conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface To The 2007 Edition -- Preface To The First Edition: The Urban Maelstrom -- Introduction: New Romes For A New World -- 1. The Pyramid Of Mining -- 2. Water Mains And Bloodlines -- 3. The Scott Brothers: Arms And The Overland Monthly -- 4. The De Youngs: Society Invents Itself -- 5· The Hearsts: Racial Supremacy And The Digestion Of "All Mexico" -- 6. Toward Limitless Energy -- 7· The University, The Gate, And "The Gadget" -- Notes -- A Note On Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families-the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others-who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and the mass media. The story uncovered by Gray Brechin is one of greed and ambition on an epic scale. Brechin arrives at a new way of understanding urban history as he traces the connections between environment, economy, and technology and discovers links that led, ultimately, to the creation of the atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race. In a new preface, Brechin considers the vulnerability of cities in the post-9/11 twenty-first century.