1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299367203321

Autore

Itoh Munehiko

Titolo

Automobile Industry Supply Chain in Thailand / / by Munehiko Itoh, Atsumi Kato, Yoshitaka Shimono, Yasuhiko Haraguchi, Park Taehoon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

981-13-2360-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (117 pages)

Collana

Kobe University Social Science Research Series, , 2520-1697

Disciplina

338.476292

Soggetti

Business logistics

Industrial procurement

Asia—Economic conditions

Supply Chain Management

Procurement

Asian Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Study on Thailand’s Automobile Industry Supply Chain -- 2 Review of Preceding Studies -- 3 Factors that Can Impact the Behavior of Manufacturing Employees in Japan, Thailand, and China -- 4 Localization Process of Japanese Automobile Companies in ASEAN - The role of Local Parts Development Division at Toyota -- 5 Supplier Development of Japanese Automotive Parts Suppliers -Purchasing strategy of Denso in ASEAN -- 6 Achieving Foreign Subsidiaries’ Self-reliant Product Development in host countries Through Mold Localization -Case study of Nissan in China and Thailand -- 7 Discussion and Implications for the Future.

Sommario/riassunto

This research focuses on the process of growth in the automobile industries in the ASEAN region. ASEAN is drawing attention both from the vantage point of its position as an automobile-producing region and as a potential automobile market. Thailand in particular has long treated automobile production as a national strategy, and this research puts considerable focus on Thailand's initiatives. Since 2012, the authors have been carrying out on-site surveys and have visited many of the suppliers that form the local automobile industry; this published



research represents a summary of those findings. The fields of specialty of this study’s respective authors differ, so analyses have been made from a range of vectors. In particular, the focus is on the supply chain in what is generally referred to as a keiretsu.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910585998703321

Autore

Tauber Alfred I.

Titolo

The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age / / Alfred I. Tauber, author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Central European University Press, 2022

Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9789633865828

9633865824

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 pages)

Classificazione

BIO009000MED044000

Disciplina

501

Soggetti

Science and civilization

Science - Philosophy

Science - History - 20th century

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Beginnings -- Chapter 2. On Ways of Knowing -- Chapter 3. Transitions -- Chapter 4. Rewriting Immunology -- Chapter 5. The Immune Self -- Chapter 6. Systems Philosophically Considered -- Chapter 7. Pursuing the Enigmatic Self -- Chapter 8. Rethinking Science -- Chapter 9. Outline of a Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science -- Chapter 10. A New Agenda -- Chapter 11. Personalizing Science -- Chapter 12. Moral Epistemology -- Chapter 13. Requiem for the Ego -- Chapter 14. Identity Reconsidered -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- The Modernist Self -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography



-- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science's - and his own personal - quest for explanatory certainty. During the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences. This "triumph of uncertainty" is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polanyi called the "personal" and the "tacit") invariably affects how data are understood. Whereas positivism had claimed radical objectivity, post-positivists have identified how a web of non-epistemic values and social forces profoundly influence the production of knowledge. Tauber presents a case study of these claims by showing how immunology has incorporated extra-curricular social elements in its theoretical development and how these in turn have influenced interpretive problems swirling around biological identity, individuality, and cognition. The correspondence between contemporary immunology and cultural notions of selfhood are strong and striking. Just as uncertainty haunts science, so too does it hover over current constructions of personal identity, self knowledge, and moral agency. Across the chasm of uncertainty, science and selfhood speak.