1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450049803321

Titolo

Measuring national power in the postindustrial age [[electronic resource] ] : analyst's handbook / / Ashley J. Tellis ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, Calif., : RAND, 2000

ISBN

0-8330-4362-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (57 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TellisAshley J

Disciplina

355/.0332

Soggetti

Military readiness

Industrial capacity

Industrial mobilization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"MR-1110/1-A".

"Prepared for the United States Army."

Nota di contenuto

""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FIGURES""; ""MEASURING NATIONAL POWER IN THE POSTINDUSTRIAL AGE: ANALYSTÃŒS HANDBOOK""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460931403321

Titolo

Advances in the economic analysis of participatory & labor-managed firms / / edited by Antti Kauhanen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78560-378-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, , 0885-3339 ; ; Volume 16

Disciplina

658.3152

Soggetti

Management - Employee participation

Employee empowerment

Electronic books.

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

Front Cover; Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Editor's Introduction; Alternative Organizational Forms; Participatory Human Resource Practices; On the Entry of Employee-Owned Firms: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1870-1960; Introduction; Formation and Choice of Organizational Form; Assumptions Underlying the Model; Decision-Making of Potential Cooperators; Costs of Information and Association and the Possibility of Market Failure; Institutions and the Data on PCs

Empirical Analysis and Results Discussion of Empirical Results; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; How to Start an Employee-owned Industrial Company and Survive for 35 Years; Introduction; The Impossibility of Employee Ownership; Degeneration Tendencies toward Traditional Ownership; Employee Ownership as a Historical Parenthesis; The Employee Takeover of Ljuders Nickelsilfverfabrik; The Effects of the Employee Takeover; The Legitimizing Leadership; The Possibility of Employee Ownership; Changes Take Time; Pride in the Collective

A Recipe for a Successful Employee Takeover and Ownership Acknowledgments; References; Motivations for Establishing



Cooperative Companies in the Performing Arts: A European Perspective; Introduction; The Economic Context of Performing Arts in Europe; Why Must Collective Firms be Established? Insights from the Literature; Methodology of the Research; Sampling; Data Collection; Collection Protocol; Semi-Directive Interviews; Data Structure; Analysis and Validity of Data; Results and Discussion; Influence of the Instrumental Motive; A Dominant Economics Logic; Complementary Non-Economics Logics

Discussion Influence of the Ideological Motive; Shared Artistic and Ideological Values; Image and Militancy; Discussion; Contextual Influence; Complementary Results and Comments; Does the Dominant Type of Motivation Influence the Success of Collective Projects?; Dominant Motivation Type and Type of Organization; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Organizational Structure and Performance in European Banks: A Reassessment; Introduction; Conceptual Framework; Existing Empirical Evidence; The Data; Empirical Approach and Summary Statistics; Regression Results

Baseline Results Robustness Checks; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix: Data Changes; Formal Organizational Power and Innovation: From a Principal-Agent to an Institutionalist View; Introduction; Formal Organizational Power: Ownership and Governance; Innovation Efforts as a Key Feature of Innovation; Extant Views on Formal Power and Innovation: Micro-Level Views; An Institutionalist View of Formal Power and Innovation; MONDRAGON and Cases with the extreme Case; Background and Institutional Environment; Cases of Capital-Intensive Innovation

Company A: A Success Case of Capital-Intensive Innovation

Sommario/riassunto

The articles in this volume offer stimulating research on the relationship among business cycles, participatory and labor-managed organizations, and employee voice. These contributions take various theoretical and empirical approaches and investigate many industries and countries, thus offering a balanced view on these current topics.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910633981303321

Titolo

Thermoelectricity : Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications / / edited by Guangzhao Qin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : IntechOpen, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-83962-610-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 pages)

Disciplina

537.65

Soggetti

Thermoelectricity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introductory Chapter: Thermoelectricity - Recent Advances, New Perspectives, and Applications -- 2. Optimization of Thermoelectric Properties Based on Rashba Spin Splitting -- 3. Processing Techniques with Heating Conditions for Multiferroic Systems of BiFeO3, BaTiO3, PbTiO3, CaTiO3 Thin Films -- 4. Research Progress of Ionic Thermoelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting -- 5. Challenges in Improving Performance of Oxide Thermoelectrics Using Defect Engineering -- 6. Thermoelectricity Properties of Tl10-x ATe6 (A = Pb) in Chalcogenide System -- 7. Thermoelectric Elements with Negative Temperature Factor of Resistance -- 8. Quantum Physical Interpretation of Thermoelectric Properties of Ruthenate Pyrochlores.

Sommario/riassunto

Next-generation energy sources are crucial for combating the world's energy crisis. One such alternative energy source is thermoelectricity, which is cost-efficient and environmentally friendly. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the progress made in thermoelectrics over the past few years with a focus on charge and heat carrier transport from both theoretical and experimental viewpoints. It also presents new strategies to improve thermoelectricity and discusses device physics and applications to guide the research community.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787675103321

Autore

Swedenborg Emanuel <1688-1772.>

Titolo

Afterlife [[electronic resource] ] : a guided tour of heaven and its wonders / / Emanuel Swedenborg ; abridged and rearranged, Donald L. Rose, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Chester, Pa., : Chrysalis Books/Swedenborg Foundation Publishers, c2008

ISBN

0-87785-655-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RoseDonald L

Disciplina

236/.24

Soggetti

Future life - Christianity

Heaven - Christianity

Hell - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Abridged and rearranged edition of Heaven and hell.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The world of spirits and our state after death -- pt. 2. Heaven -- pt. 3. Hell.