Dragon in a three-piece suit [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of capitalism in China / / Doug Guthrie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455023503321
• Autore: Guthrie Doug <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J. ; ; Woodstock, : Princeton University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 1-4008-0321-7; 9786612397431; 1-4008-2338-2; 1-282-39743-5; 1-4008-1190-2
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 388.951
• Soggetti: Capitalism - China; Industrial management - China; Industrial organization - China; Organizational change - China; Electronic books.; China Economic policy 1976-2000
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: 1999.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Firm Practices in China's Transforming Economy: Efficiency or Mimicry? -- 2. Path Dependence in China's Economic Transition -- 3. Formal Rational Bureaucracies in Chinese Firms: Causes and Implications -- 4. Changing Labor Relations in the Period of Market Reform -- 5. The Politics of Price Setting in China's Transition Economy -- 6. Economic Strategies in the Face of Market Reforms -- 7. Institutional Pressure, Rational Choice, and Contractual Relations: Chinese-Foreign Negotiations in the Economic Transition -- 8. The Declining Significance of Connections in China's Economic Transition -- 9. Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix One. Methodology and Sampling -- Appendix Two. Interviews and Informants -- Appendix Three. Complete Interview Schedule -- ; Appendix Four. Sample Characteristics and Variables -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing managers, and gathering data on firms' performance and practices, provides the first detailed account of how these firms have been radically transformed since the mid-1980s. Guthrie shows that Chinese firms are increasingly imitating foreign firms in response both to growing contact with international investors and to being cut adrift from state support. Many firms, for example, are now less likely to use informal hiring practices, more likely to have formal grievance filing procedures, and more likely to respect international institutions, such as the Chinese International Arbitration Commission. Guthrie argues that these findings support the de-linking of Western trade policy from human rights, since it is clear that economic engagement leads to constructive reform. Yet Guthrie also warns that reform in China is not a process of inevitable Westernization or of managers behaving as rational, profit-maximizing agents. Old habits, China's powerful state administration, and the hierarchy of the former command economy will continue to have profound effects on how firms act and how they adjust to change. With its combination of rigorous argument and uniquely rich detail, this book gives us the most complete picture yet of Chinese economic reform at the crucial level of the industrial firm.

African perspectives on global development / / edited by Mahmoud Masaeli, Sanni Yaya and Rico Sneller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793208503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2018
• ISBN: 1-5275-2656-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.4826
• Soggetti: Globalization - Africa; Well-being - Social aspects - Africa; Well-being - Economic aspects - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Thèses présentées a la faculté des sciences de Paris pour obtenir la facultè des sciences de Paris / par le dr. Eckley Lechmere

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910776390103321
• Autore: Moreau, Laurent
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris, : Hermann, 1913
• Descrizione fisica: 68 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm
• Locazione: FAGBC
• Collocazione: A PAT 1209
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Sul frontespizio: 1re these: Recherche sur quelques Moisissures

Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements / / edited by Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Wynand JvdM Steyn, John Harvey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299624403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 3-662-44719-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (517 p.)
• Collana: Green Energy and Technology, , 1865-3529
• Disciplina: 625.85
• Soggetti: Renewable energy resources; Climatic changes; Transportation; Renewable and Green Energy; Climate Change Management and Policy
• 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 at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: From the Contents: Pavement Life Cycle Assessment -- Application of LCA Results to Network-level Highway Pavement Management -- The Product Process Service Life Cycle Assessment Framework to Estimate GHG Emissions for Highways -- Anticipating and Responding to Pavement Performance as Climate Changes -- Climate Change Scenarios and their potential effects on Transportation Infrastructure Systems. .
• Sommario/riassunto: Climate change, energy production and consumption, and the need to improve the sustainability of all aspects of human activity are key inter-related issues for which solutions must be found and implemented quickly and efficiently. To be successfully implemented, solutions must recognize the rapidly changing socio-techno-political environment and multi-dimensional constraints presented by today’s interconnected world. As part of this global effort, considerations of climate change impacts, energy demands, and incorporation of sustainability concepts have increasing importance in the design, construction, and maintenance of highway and airport pavement systems. To prepare the human capacity to develop and implement these solutions, many ; educators, policy-makers and practitioners have stressed the paramount importance of formally incorporating sustainability concepts in the civil engineering curriculum to educate and train future civil engineers well-equipped to address our current and future sustainability challenges. This book will prove a valuable resource in the hands of researchers, educators and future engineering leaders, most of whom will be working in multidisciplinary environments to address a host of next-generation sustainable transportation infrastructure challenges. "This book proposes a broad detailed overview of the actual scientific knowledge about pavements linked to climate change, energy and sustainability at the international level in an original multidimensional/multi-effects way. By the end, the reader will be aware of the whole global issues to care about for various pavement technical features around the world, among which the implications of modelling including data collection, challenging resources saving and infrastructures services optimisation. This is a complete and varied work, rare in the domain." Dr. Agnes Jullien Research Director Director of Environmental, Development, Safety and Eco-Design Laboratory (EASE) Department of Development, Mobility and Environment Ifsttar Centre de Nantes Cedex- France.