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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Industrial restructuring"”.
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Industrial restructuring and physical activity in England
… It is proposed that such processes of industrial restructuring may be causally linked to unexplained geographical variations in activity patterns. Although the socio-cultural correlates of activity behaviours have been well studied, none have explicitly attempted to identify components …
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INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING AND REVITALISATION IN THE UK COASTAL ZONE
This thesis provides an analysis of the social, economic and environmental consequences of oil refinery closures in the coastal zone of the UK. It assesses the subsequent economic regeneration of the sites affected, and discusses in particular the redevelopment processes that have occurred at two …
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Global displacements : geographies of work and industrial restructuring in the Dominican Republic.
… of labourintensive employment strategies and the restructuring of spatial and social divisions of labour in their wake. Drawing on ethnographic methods and historical accounts of economic change in the Dominican Republic’s northern Cibao region, I consider the restructuring of the country’s export …
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The impacts of industrial restructuring on the employment of women and minorities
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Cantonese women workers & job change under industrial restructuring in Boston, 1970-1990
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Industrial restructuring : challenges and demands imposed by flexible specialisation on manufacturing : A case study of two firms in the Western Cape
… making considerable progress in the process of restructuring towards greater flexibility. There is significant progress in relations between management and labour. These changes cannot only be attributed to flexible specialisation, but also to new the political scenario in the country and …
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The restructuring of the motor vehicle manufacturing in South Africa : a case study of Nissan South Africa
… sector in South Africa's capitalist industrialization. A few research questions pertaining to global trends in the industry, trends amongst SA manufacturers, and the latter's prospects in a context of their goal to become world class manufacturers complement the exploratory nature of …
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Incentive Regulation with Benchmarking in the Electricity Distribution Industry
… in Brazil. In Chapter 4, I examine the effect of restructuring and retail competition on cost reduction using a sample of US investor-owned electric utilities. The effects of privatization, industrial restructuring, incentive regulation and benchmarking are effectively disentangled from one …
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Determinants of the spatial dynamics of housing prices in Chengdu, China, 2005-2010
… are representations of urban economic growth, industrial restructuring and demographic transformation, are also significant determinants that have been capitalized into housing unit price at various levels. In a rapid developing city like Chengdu, the thesis found from the Change Model that …
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The impact of foreign direct investment on China's competitiveness
… several panel data sets at provincial and industrial levels, the empirical analysis has been conducted on four research issues. First, the regional locational determinants of FDI in China are investigated. Second, the impact of FDI on China’s economic growth is tested. Third, the impact of …
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Transformación de Toyota de Brasil en un centro regional de exportación
La industria automotriz en América Latina ha enfrentado múltiples desafíos a lo largo de los últimos treinta años, algunos derivados de las particularidades estructurales de la región y otros propios de la dinámica del sector. En este contexto, el desempeño productivo no ha seguido una trayectoria …
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A resource-based systems approach to globalization, organization and people: a case study in the outsourcing sector of the US-based global pharmaceutical industry
As an interdisciplinary attempt to explore and demonstrate the complementarity of natural and social sciences and to achieve synergy effects in the contemporary global scholarship of humanistic social and behavioral sciences, this dissertation proposes a resource-based systems approach to the study …
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Propuesta de reconversión industrial con vocación exportadora para la empresa Técnicos Mecánicos Ltda.
La propuesta de reconversión industrial con vocación exportadora para la empresa Técnicos Mecánicos Ltda., es el resultado de un trabajo investigativo, argumentativo y propositivo de los autores con el fin de adaptarla al contexto competitivo nacional y extranjero. El documento inicia a través de …