1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465131303321

Titolo

Multinationals and the restructuring of the world economy : the geography of multinationals. Volume 2 / / edited by Michael Taylor and Nigel Thrift

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07628-1

1-299-31955-6

1-135-12449-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. International business ; ; v. 38

Multinationals and the restructuring of the world economy : the geography of multinationals ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

TaylorMichael <1946 Feb. 28->

ThriftN. J

Disciplina

338.881

Soggetti

International business enterprises

International economic relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1986 by Croom Helm.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Multinationals and theRestructuring of the WorldEconomy; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: New Theories of Multinational Corporations; 2 Labour Dynamics and Plant Centrality in Multinational Corporations; 3 Multinationals, Business Organisations and the Development of the Fiji Economy; 4 The International Expansion of an Enterprise of the Semi-periphery: South African Breweries Limited; 5 Spatial Aspects of Third World Multinational Corporations' Direct Investment in Indonesia

6 The Internationalisation of Producer Services and the Integration of the Pacific Basin Property Market7 The Internationalisation of Japanese Commercial Banking; 8 The Global Investments of a British International Development Agency; 9 Fruits of Independence? Philippine Capitalists and the Banana Export Industry; 10 The Role of Foreign Manufacturing in Britain's Great Recession; 11 Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring: Multinational Corporations and The Paper, Printing and



Packaging Sector in Bristol; 12 One Perspective on the Enterprise Perspective; References; Author Index

Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume charts the ways in which multinational corporations contributed to the restructuring of the world economy, paying particular attention to the spatial consequences of, and responses to, their operations at a number of scales. The book takes as its theme the differential spatial outcomes of the restructuring of different types of multinational corporation.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910743347103321

Titolo

Advances in Structural Integrity : Structural Integrity Over Multiple Length Scales / / edited by Krishna Jonnalagadda, Alankar Alankar, Nagamani Jaya Balila, Tanmay Bhandakkar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

981-16-8723-4

981-16-8724-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, , 2195-4364

Disciplina

624.171

Soggetti

Statics

Aerospace engineering

Astronautics

Building materials

Fire prevention

Buildings - Protection

Mechanical Statics and Structures

Aerospace Technology and Astronautics

Structural Materials

Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Performance driven fan case design for durability evaluation in a blade impact event -- An atomistic study of activation parameters for plasticity evolution from a pristine and damaged grain boundary in Nickel -- Viscoplastic Constitutive Parameters for Inconel alloy-625 at 843K -- Design of Shock Absorber for Radioactive Coolant Tube Transportation Cask and Impact Analysis of Cask with Shock Absorber -- Design, Impact and Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of Radioactive Surveillance Specimen Transportation Cask -- Modified Cowper-Symonds Model for Predicting the Stress-Strain Behaviour of SA516 Gr. 70 Carbon Steel.

Sommario/riassunto

This book comprises the proceedings of the 3rd Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE 2020). The contents of the volume focus on structural integrity, life prediction, and condition monitoring which are reclassified under the domains of aerospace, fracture mechanics, fatigue, creep-fatigue interactions, civil structures, experimental techniques, computation mechanics, structural health monitoring, nondestructive testing, failure analysis, materials processing, stress corrosion cracking, reliability and risk analysis. This book will be a useful reference for students, researchers and practitioners.