In recent years, and for the first time in Spanish economic history, outward direct investment flows outweigh inward flows. Catalan manufacturing not only mirrors this pattern, but also represents a high proportion of all Spanish manufacturing outward direct investment. In this paper, we analyse the factors that determine outward direct investment by Catalan manufacturing firms. We apply Dunnin...

This research work address the positive effect of Agriculture on manufacturing sector in Nigeria. The study made used Ordinary Least Square Method estimation techniques. findings showed that Agricultural output, government spending agriculture, and real gross domestic product all have effects sector. is RGDP 66percent, AGRQ by 63%, GOEXA 96 percent. recommends among other things should allocate...

This paper explores the prospects for sustainable manufacturing. How will manufacturers respond to the future challenges in the socio-economic business environment and technological change? What is the scope for sustainable manufacturing assuming different socio-economic development paths? How will manufacturers adapt their Corporate Sustainability strategies to these developments? The paper th...

Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), technologies are presented as solutions to manufacturing organizations, which need to perform well in all customer-related dimensions simultaneously. In the literature, CIM technologies providing such benefits as more frequent production changes, reduced inventory level, improved ability of producing complex parts with a high degree of accuracy and repea...

Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), technologies are presented as solutions to manufacturing organizations, which need to perform well in all customer-related dimensions simultaneously. In the literature, CIM technologies providing such benefits as more frequent production changes, reduced inventory level, improved ability of producing complex parts with a high degree of accuracy and repea...

to evaluate the effect of different rates of nitrogen fertilizer on competitive ability of canola (okapi cv.) in interference with wild mustard, a split-plot experiment based on a randomized complete block design with 3 replications was carried out at agricultural faculty of bu-ali sina university, in 2008-2009. 4 levels of nitrogen fertilization (100, 150, 200 and 250 kg n ha-1) were assigned ...

The two parts of this paper respectively analyses the mismatch between current systems and practice in health care, and present an outline design for enhanced Integrated Care Pathways (ICP) knowledge and information management based upon mature ICT technologies.

This study examined the perceptions of stakeholders in the Georgia Mountains Manufacturing (GMM) region in terms of how the education providers, high schools, and technical colleges worked together to address pathways, skills-gap training, and increase human capital for the benefit of both industry and the communities in the region. The GMM initiative was funded in 2010 with a two-year grant th...

The former " Steel Cities " of Sheffield, UK and Pittsburgh, USA have struggled to grow and attract a modern, knowledge-based economy. From the 1970s to early 1980s, their traditional manufacturing economies began to breakdown, rendering the economic logic of their industrial structures obsolete. The comparative advantage of OECD cities shifted from physical manufacturing to the packaging and g...

Having a full understanding of the world’s social-economic situation is the success key for industries automotive manufacturing industry is an extremely competitive one usually there is no clear guideline among automotive companies about technological causes behind their success and failure. This research provides an investigation about the world’s economic situation and the environ...