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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Industrial; Performance;"”.
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The SADC trade protocol and industrial performance in Southern Africa : a case of the automotive industry in Zimbabwe
… and integration can facilitate renewed industrial growth and sustainable development, particularly among the developing countries of the world. Even the developed economies have not been able to avoid the tendency towards integration, as it is believed that the benefits to be reaped far …
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Industrial drug development: application of the theoretical framework of Abernathy, Clark, and Kantrow (1983) in an analysis of factors which determine productivity
… shares a general concern about recent decline in industrial productivity in the United States with Abernathy, Clark, and Kantrow (1983), who developed a theoretical framework for analyzing the causes of lackluster industrial performance. According to Abernathy, et al. (1983), performance is …
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Rethinking the Development of the Automobile Industry in China
<p>Governmental industrial policies have significant influence on industrial performance. Many developing countries that lack capital and a good technology base use foreign direct investment (FDI)-dependent governmental policies to induce multinational corporations (MNCs) to invest in their …
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Cost and performance analysis of new wood-fuelled power plant concepts
… models using AspenPlus aimed at calculating the industrial performance of power plant concepts were built, tested, and used for analysis. The criteria used in analysis were performance and cost. All of the advanced systems appear to have higher efficiencies than the commercial reference, the …
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Robotic Manufacturing Cell: An Analysis of Variables Affecting Performance
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African industrial policy in an era of expanding global value chains: the case of Ethiopia's textile and leather industries
… the history of capitalism, the process of industrialisation has been recognised as the engine of economic development. No region in the world ‘suffers’ more acutely from a lack of industrialisation than Africa, clearly highlighting the need for industrial policy. However, the formulation of …
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Site-level Resource Efficiency Analysis
… to develop and apply tools that help integrate industrial energy and material efficiency analyses. Three areas of research are explored. The first is concerned with a fundamental component of industrial performance: efficiency benchmarks. No agreed-upon metric exists to measure the efficiency …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
Economic reforms in the Chinese industrial sector during 1979-88 have followed two lines: decentralization of the authority of the central government bureaucracy to the provincial and local level and movement within enterprises towards greater reliance on the market mechanism and away from …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
Economic reforms in the Chinese industrial sector during 1979-88 have followed two lines: decentralization of the authority of the central government bureaucracy to the provincial and local level and movement within enterprises towards greater reliance on the market mechanism and away from …
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Indigenization of industrial management in postcolonial Africa : a case study from Senegal
… go on the search for evidence on personnel and industrial management policy under French expatriates and the gradual changes under Senegalese management. What had actually changed and how had it changed? While economic facts did not prove that management under French expatriates was any better …
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Three papers in regional economics: energy productivity convergence, water resource planning, and workforce occupation-industry dynamics
… sensitivity of occupational demand according to industrial performance, and well-connected industries that show higher multiplier effects in generating jobs. The increasing integration of the world economy has demonstrated the critical need to identify industries and an associated skilled …
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Wind shielding in refining and petrochemical facilities
The most influential climatic load affecting the structural design of gulf coast refining and petrochemical facilities is wind. Despite this fact, little has been done to customize wind design for these unique facilities. This paper proposes a probabilistic model to predict the magnitude of …
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Performance Measurement, Feedback, and Reward Processes in Research and Development Work Teams: Effects on Perceptions of Performance
Organizations have had difficulty managing the performance of their knowledge work teams. Many of these troubles have been linked to antiquated or inadequate performance management systems along with a scarcity of empirical research on this important human resource initiative. These problems are …