The rapid innovation rate of industrial equipment, coupled with diversity of industrial processes and application areas, has introduced new constraints for management and workers in industrial settings. As a result, it is difficult to present a generic framework for knowledge management (KM) support in industrial environments. In this contribution, the authors briefly discuss KM in customer bas...

Tipping is a phenomenon that has been studied for many years, but is receiving increased attention in recent years. The magnitude of tips is very large – in the US, for example, tips in the food industry alone amount to about $42 billion each year, and tips are given in many other establishments and countries, so annual worldwide tips are much higher than that. Millions of workers in the US alo...

In the first section the paper describes the weak position held by Africa in the global trade of goods and identifies key determinants of the region’s industrial performance. It goes on to outline shifts in the overall structure of international trade and production, together with the challenges they pose for Africa. It analyses the reasons for low productivity rates, points to missed export op...

To my parents and siblings, for 27 years of loving atmosphere, patience and support. To Michela and Sarah, for everything that makes life meaningful. To Don, for pushing my intellectual development and curiosity. i Acknowledgements I am very grateful for having had the priviledge of enjoying supervision by Monika Schnitzer. Without her limitless patience, her expertise and her common sense this...

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with many different industries, in which firms set prices strategically in product markets. Our approach extends previous literature by endogenizing the market price of risk and allowing for more general risk structures. General equilibrium in the model is shown to exist under general conditions. Strategic interaction between firms amplifies busine...

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In this survey, we examine the operations of innovation processes within industrial districts by exploring the ways in which differentiation, specialization, and integration affect the generation, diffusion, and use of new knowledge in such districts. We begin with an analysis of the importance of the division of labour and then investigate the effects of social embeddedness on innovation. We a...

shear wave velocity is a basic engineering tool required to define dynamic properties of soils. in many instances it may be preferable to determine vs indirectly by common in-situ tests, such as the standard penetration test. many empirical correlations based on the standard penetration test are broadly classified as regression techniques. however, no rigorous procedure has been published for c...

The concepts of industrial district and cluster have entered our economic daily life language, however they are still characterised by a strong semantic ambiguity. In the last decades also new terminologies have come up to define the episode of local development, characterised by a strong specialisation, like the term of local production system or the industrial milieu. This paper develops a sy...