Green manufacturing is a key technology to realize eco-industry and sustainable development, it is causing people's great attention. The implementation of green manufacturing has produced revolutionary influence on the products of the manufacturing industry and manufacturing industry. Through analyzing and researching historical evolvement of product attribute, this thesis summarizes the evolvi...

This paper presents an overview of e-commerce with a focus on maritime industry. It describes potential influence of the established financial services industry in the evolution of a new business model, and summarizes e-commerce motivated alliances, mergers, and partnerships in the industry. Given the formative nature of e-commerce technology, it is suggested that the maritime industry strike a...

Technology innovation is the key motivation to push strategic emerging industry development. Research on key factors to influence industrial technological innovation is essential to enhance strategic emerging industrial technology innovation. This paper analyzes the various factors that influence industrial technology innovation by the fixed effects variable coefficient model. Through the expan...

In order to facilitate the rapid development of B2B e-business and supply chain, many industry consortia develop industry-specific standards. This paper differentiates between two distinct dimensions characterizing organizations’ standards use: breadth and depth. We examine how industry consortia’ promotion strategies influence the breadth and depth of standards use, and how standards use influ...

Traditional covert influence of industry on occupational and environmental health (OEH) policies has turned brazenly overt in the last several years. More than ever before the OEH community is witnessing the perverse influence and increasing control by industry interests. Government has failed to support independent, public health-oriented practitioners and their organizations, instead joining ...

Site-specific factors are assumed to influence ethanol plant location and production. This paper aims at determining whether these factors actually have influence on plant size. The rapid expansion of the industry could make these factors crucial in its survival. Exploratory spatial analyses did not show spatial dependence among nearby ethanol plants. However, a spatial error model was found to...