Edizione	[1st ed. 2022.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (303 pages)
Disciplina	929.374
Soggetto topico	Asia - Economic conditions Business logistics Globalization Asian Economics Logistics
ISBN	981-19-3008-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Upgrading from Above: Industry 4.0 and China’s New Development Strategies -- Chapter 2. Made in China 2025: Advanced Manufacturing and Transformation of Production Networks -- Chapter 3. Alibaba’s Distribution-Driven Approach Towards the Industrial Internet: A Chinese Approach to Industry 4.0? - Chapter 4. Reorganization of Global Value Chains in the Digital Economy: China's Response -- Chapter 5. Industry 4.0: China’s Path to the Adoption of Digitalization and Automation Technologies -- Part 2. Upgrading from Below: Active Local Governments and Firms and the Reconfiguration of Value Chains in China -- Chapter 6. Industrial Upgrading from Below: Can Chinese Local Manufacturing Firms Reconfigure Global Value Chains? - Chapter 7. Objective and Subjective Social Upgrading and Downgrading of Technical Workers in China’s Transitional Economy -- Chapter 8. Active local government and new Chinese firms in the emerging industries in Kunshan -- Chapter 9. Small City, Big Wisdom: Urban Transformation and Industrial Upgrading Strategies for Kunshan in the Changing Globalization Era -- Part 3. China’s Shifting Role in Regional and Global Value Chains -- Chapter 10. China’s Shifting Roles in Asian Electronics Trade Networks: Implications for Regional Value Chains -- Chapter 11. Chinese Cities in ICT Manufacturing Value Chains: A Multi-Product Analysis -- Chapter 12. Whither Global Value Chains: The Shifting Role of Taiwanese FDI in Mainland China -- Chapter 13. China’s Energy Policy: Implications of ‘Green or Brown’ Recovery for China’s Role in Manufacturing GVCs -- Chapter 14. Concluding Note.
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Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London. England : , : Pluto Press, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	658.7
Collana	Wildcat
Soggetto topico	Business logistics Competition, International International business enterprises
ISBN	1-78680-234-1 1-78680-190-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Forging Workers' Resistance Across the Global Supply Chain -- Part I Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World's Choke Points -- 1 Labor and Social Movements' Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain Structure -- 2 Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector -- 3 Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism -- Part II Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation -- 4 Worker Militancy and Strikes in China's Docks -- 5 "Work Hard, Make History": Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California's Warehouse and Distribution Industry -- 6 Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland -- 7 Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain -- Part III Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports -- 8 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai -- 9 Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! -- 10 Contested Logistics? Neoliberal Modernization and Resistance in the Port City of Valparaíso -- 11 Logistics Workers' Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies -- Part IV New Organizing Strategies for the Global Supply Chain -- 12 "The Drivers Who Move This Country Can Also Stop It": The Struggle of Tanker Drivers in Indonesia -- 13 Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Experimental Organizing in Southern California's Logistics Sector -- 14 Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke Point -- 15 Beyond the Waterfront: Maintaining and Expanding Worker Power in the Maritime Supply Chain -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.
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Autore	Larsson Mats
Edizione	[1st ed. 2018.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (303 pages) : color illustrations
Disciplina	338.927
Soggetto topico	Industrial management—Environmental aspects Business logistics Sustainability Management Supply Chain Management Planificació empresarial Logística industrial Desenvolupament sostenible
Soggetto genere / forma	Llibres electrònics
ISBN	3-319-71791-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1 Mankind vs. Reality -- 2 Development as a Process of Organization -- 3 The Author’s Journey -- 4 The Circular Economy and Business Challenges -- 5 Complexity – The Tightly Woven Fabric of Society -- 6 Could Resource Shortages Cause Problems? -- 7 Multiple Helix Collaboration for the Development of a Circular Economy -- 8 Managing Change -- 9 Local Production and Distribution Systems -- 10 Sharing and Extended Use -- 11 Standardization and modularization -- 12 Recycling and Upcycling -- 13 Biologically based materials -- 14 Transportation systems, renewable fuels and energy efficiency -- 15 Construction, Infrastructure, and Digital Technologies -- 16 Life Sustaining Resources and Technologies -- 17 Financial Innovations -- 18 General Purpose Technologies as the Basis for Transformation -- 19 Risks and Logical Fallacies -- 20 Planning The Way Forward and Reality Check -- 21 Paradigms, at Last -- Epilogue.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910298209703321

Autore	Gallaud Delphine
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, England ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE : , : Wiley, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (143 p.)
Disciplina	658
Collana	Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Management Series - Smart Innovation Set
Soggetto topico	Industrial management Industrial ecology Business logistics
ISBN	1-119-30747-3 1-119-30746-5 1-119-30745-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1: Building Region-based Sustainable Development: Vocabulary and Tools; 2: Difficulties, Barriers and Stakes in Transitioning Towards Sustainable Regions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Other titles from ISTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management; EULA; 1.1. Circular economy; 1.2. Industrial ecology; 1.3. Short supply chains; 1.4 Industrial ecology, short supply chains and sustainable regional development; 2.1. Barriers to the implementation of industrial ecology and short supply chains 2.2. How to overcome or reduce these obstacles: the role of service activities2.3. Challenges for public policy; 1.1.1. The circular economy according to the MacArthur Foundation; 1.1.2. Experiments in circular economy; 1.1.3. Factual and scientific origins of circular economy; 1.2.1. Industrial ecology and sustainable development; 1.2.2. Industrial metabolism and symbiosis; 1.2.3. Experiments in industrial ecology; 1.3.1. Origins of short food supply chains: criticism of industrial "long" supply chains; 1.3.2. Forms and functioning of short food supply chains 1.3.3. Short supply chains: generators of social innovation1.4.1. Links among these different concepts: the creation of sustainable territories; 1.4.2. Proximity and innovative "milieu": key ingredients for sustainable regional development; 1.4.3. An assessment of the regional impacts of industrial ecology and short supply chains; 2.1.1. The case of industrial ecology; 2.1.2. The case of short food supply chains; 2.2.1. Definition of service activities; 2.2.2. What role do service activities have in the implementation of industrial ecology and short food supply chains? 2.3.1. The issue of governance2.3.2. The issue of coordination; 2.3.3. What is the relevant territorial scale?; 2.1.1.1. Technical barriers to synergy; 2.1.1.2. Economic barriers; 2.1.1.3. Informational barriers; 2.1.1.4. Organizational barriers; 2.1.1.5. Regulatory barriers; 2.1.1.6. Infrastructural barriers; 2.1.1.7. The human dimension; 2.1.2.1. Obstacles to the implementation of short food supply chains; 2.1.2.2. Obstacles to the complete attainment of the positive effects of short food supply chain; 2.2.2.1. The organization of market relations 2.2.2.2. Acquisition or maintenance of agents' capacities2.2.2.3. The development of new practices
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Edizione	[1st edition]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Boca Raton : , : Auerbach Publications, , 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina	658.5
Altri autori (Persone)	FergusonMark <1969-> SouzaGilvan C
Collana	Supply chain integration series
Soggetto topico	Business logistics Business logistics - Environmental aspects Remanufacturing
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-429-25056-8 1-4200-9526-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Commentary on Closed-Loop Supply Chains; Part I: Strategic Considerations; Chapter 2: Strategic Issues in Closed-Loop Supply Chains with Remanufacturing; Chapter 3: Environmental Legislation on Product Take-Back and Recovery; Chapter 4: Product Design Issues; Part II: Tactical Considerations; Chapter 5:Designing the Reverse Logistics Network; Chapter 6: Product Acquisition,Grading, and Disposition Decisions; Chapter 7: Production Planning and Control for Remanufacturing Chapter 8: Market fo r Remanufactured Products: Empirical FindingsPart III: Industry Characteristics and Case Studies; Chapter 9: Examples of Existing Profitable Practices in Product Take-Back and Recovery; Chapter 10: Reuse and Recycling in the Motion Picture Industry; Chapter 11: Reverse Supply Chain in Hospitals: Lessons from Three Case Studies in Montreal; Part IV: Interdisciplinary Research on Closed-Loop Supply Chains; Chapter 12: Interdisciplinarity in Closed-Loop Supply Chain Management Research Chapter 13: Empirical Studies in Closed-Loop Supply Chains: Can We Source a Greener Mousetrap?Chapter 14: Conclusion and Future Research Directions; Index; Back Cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459422903321