Capital and Coercion: The Economic and Military Processes that Have Shaped the World Economy, 1800-1990 (Transnational Business and Corporate Culture)

Book Description

This historical, cross-national research examines the global economic and military dynamics that have shaped the world-economy from 1820 to the present. It provides valuable insights into the nature of the global hierarchy, the relationship between economic and military power and the mechanisms of national mobility. It will also be a useful reference tool, as it provides (for the first time) a ranking of countries in the world-economy from 1900 to 1990.

This study will be of use to scholars interested in globalization, national development, international relations, world conflicts, inequality and stratification.

Average customer rating:

Technological Change: Peril or Opportunity?

Untangles the Web of Confustion Surrounding Innovation

A worthwhile and important study on how corporations die.

Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change
James M. Utterback
Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Management | Harvard Business School Press | By Publisher | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Strategy Planning | Harvard Business School Press | By Publisher | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Management | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Organizational Change | Organizational Behavior | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Entrepreneurship | Small Business & Entrepreneurship | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
General | Science | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)

Innovation--The Missing Dimension

The Sources of Innovation

Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them

Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition

ASIN: 0875843425

Book Description

In Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, Utterback presents a compelling book at how innovation transforms industries, raising the fortunes of some firms while destroying others. The book draws on the rich history of innovation by inventors and entrepreneurs-ranging from the birth of typewriters to the emergence of personal computer, gas lamps to fluorescent lighting, George Eastman's amateur photography to electronic imaging-to develop a practical model for how innovation enters an industry, how mainstream firms typically respond, and how-over time-new and old players wrestle for dominance.

Customer Reviews:

Technological Change: Peril or Opportunity?.......2000-08-30

Utterback explains "how companies can seize opportunities in the face of technological change." There are dozens (hundreds?) of other books on the same subject, notably those written by Geoffrey A. Moore. I rate this book so highly because it is exceptionally well-organized and well-written, because it examines several offbeat subjects (eg the development of the typewriter and the evolution of the typewriter industry, the development of the incandescent electric light), and because Utterback focuses so intensely -- and so effectively -- on real-world situations in which the "dynamics of innovation" are manifest. This book is very informative but also great fun to read. (Those who enjoy it as much as I did are urged to read both The History of Invention and The Lever of Riches.) Chapter 4 revisits the the dynamics of the innovation model (Figure 1-1) and then in Chapter 5, Utterback shifts his attention to developments within the plate glass manufacturing industry. In Chapter 6, he examines the innovation differences between assembled and nonassembled products. Subsequent chapters sustain the discussion of "the power of innovation in the creation of an industry" and then, in Chapter 9, Utterback "draws together some of the lessons of earlier chapters and academic research to consider the relationship between the behaviors and strategies of firms with respect to technological innovation and long-term survival." He concludes his book (in Chapter 10) by addressing "the perennial management issue of how corporations can renew their technology, products, and processes as a basis for continued competitive vitality." It is obvious to all of us that even the strongest product and business strategy will eventually be overturned by technological change. Ours is an age in which change is the only constant. Therefore, as Utterbach explains so carefully and so eloquently, the challenge is to accept the inevitability of change which results from technological innovation ("discontinuities") and to sustain a commitment to cope effectively with such change. Only such a commitment "will win the day."

Untangles the Web of Confustion Surrounding Innovation.......2000-04-19

Utterback does a superb job of providing real world examples of how innovation can change the landscape of your business. The book provides a clear understanding of the life cycle of innovation and the behaviors within a firm as they migrate from a focus on product innovation to a focus on process innovation.

The book provides a guide that can be applied to any industry, any product in any time. It gives the reader the ability to identify what phase of innovation their company is in and helps them predict how other companies are behaving today and how they might behave in the future in the face of direct competitive challenges.

The book also clearly demonstrates that innovation that can wipe you out will seldom come from the "Usual Suspects". Not those you see at your direct competitors, but from those companies that see the weaknesses and deficiencies in your products and redefine how they could be overcome with new technology.

I found this book to be a perfect balance of academic principles and cold hard business reality. A very enjoyable read that has provided me with yet another valuable tool to use in developing strategies to defend existing markets and tapping into new.

It focuses on how management must think about new innovations in technology and processes. Ultimately to survive they must not shrink away from a technological threat, but face it head on.

Most companies defend their position by intensely focusing on how to make their existing product, better, cheaper and faster. Ultimately they realize that as shinny, beautiful and cheap as they have made their latest buggy whip, their customer has lost interest in the face of some new technology.

Cheaper, faster, better, smarter will only keep your doors open for so long and microscopically staring down on both your customers needs and your products attributes, may leave you standing outside looking in.

Great read!

A worthwhile and important study on how corporations die........1996-09-22

I found Mr. Utterback's book to be an excellent book on the reasons for the inability of existing corporations to make the needed rapid adoption of changes necessary to compete in a world of punctuated technological changes. I found his editors lacking in their permitting too many academic attitudes filter through to the final version. Too many refereneces to "Utterback, our and my". Tiresome and pedantic in places. All in all an excellent peice of work though. Glad to have read it and I will undoubtedly read it again. Congratulations Mr. Utterback on an important piece of work. Dan Taylor dtaylor@io.org

Book Description

In today's world, we are witnessing simultaneous breakthroughs in reproductive technologies, genomics, and molecular biology. Advances in molecular genetic technology and understanding of the bovine genome have led to the development of tools that can be used to enhance profitability on cow-calf enterprises. Factors Affecting Calf Crop: Biotechnology of Reproduction provides a detailed compilation of current and forthcoming technology for managing reproduction in cattle. The book discusses topics such as: approved techniques for controlling the estrous cycle in cattle; managing follicular growth with progesterone, estrogens, and prostaglandins; freezing, thawing, and transfer of cattle embryos; application of embryo transfer to the beef cattle industry; embryo transfer in topically adapted cattle; new factors affecting bull fertility; embryo collection and utilization technology, in vitro fertilization, somatic cell cloning, and genetic technologies; uses of real-time ultrasound; and sexed semen. Over 25 leading animal scientists have combined their expertise to produce the first single-source reference that covers successful reproductive techniques that will, most likely, be the wave of the future. Expansive in scope, the book addresses current biotechnologies as they impact the production of beef cattle. Written at a level to appeal to the researcher, commercial producer, or student, Factors Affecting Calf Crop: Biotechnology of Reproduction presents you with a wealth of technologies applicable to animal agriculture.

Average customer rating:

FACTORS AFFECTING CALF CROP
T. ; A. Warnick; M. Koger Cunha
Manufacturer: University Of Florida Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MGVSZS

Factors affecting calf crop percentage (Southern regional beef cow-calf handbook)

Average customer rating:

Factors affecting calf crop percentage (Southern regional beef cow-calf handbook)
Michael J Fields
Manufacturer: N.C. Agricultural Extension Service
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Animal Husbandry | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000724Q5Q

Book Description

Addresses measurements in new fields such as cellular and molecular biology.

Equips readers with the necessary background in electric circuits.
Statistical coverage shows how to determine trial sizes.

Average customer rating:

Vageuly written
Vague Intoduction to Bioinstrumentation

Principles of Bioinstrumentation
Richard Normann
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Natural History | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Computers & Internet | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 047160514X

Book Description

This complete, well-integrated text offers students without extensive background in the field a solid understanding of the principles and applications of analog and digital instrumentation. Examines such topics as basic analog and digital electronic components, systems theory, and the design of analog signal conditioning circuitry for amplification, filtering, and level shifting of signals originating from a variety of transducers. Includes a detailed description of how to interface analog-to-digital converters to a personal computer, in order to digitize and display these signals, store them on magnetic media, and perform elementary digital filter operations. Also provides a review of operational amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, and systems theory. Numerous examples and problems are presented throughout the text, and laboratory experiments concluding each chapter provide ``hands on'' experience in all areas covered.

Customer Reviews:

Vageuly written.......2007-02-06

It is a very vaguely written book and a lot of stuff is just unexplained. This book does not help the reader. Unfortunately it is a prescribed text book for my course and I had to buy it. But I refer to other books and websites for the concepts.

Vague Intoduction to Bioinstrumentation.......2000-05-31

I read this book as a junior in my undergraduate work and if I didn't already have a background in the topics, I wouldn't know what this book was talking about. The principles are described very vaguely and the mathematics and physical concepts of bioinstruments are presented without sufficient support. This book leaves a lot of gaps that are better filled in with another book.

Bioinstrumentation (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering)

Average customer rating:

To much space for non-bioinstrumentation

Bioinstrumentation (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering)
John D. Enderle
Manufacturer: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Biotechnology | Special Topics | Medicine | Subjects | Books

General | Medicine | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 1598291327
Release Date: 2007-08-21

Customer Reviews:

To much space for non-bioinstrumentation.......2007-06-09

The book wastes many pages on explaining basic properties of resistors and currents flowing through electrical circuits. But if I would like to hear about this, I would have bought a book on electronics not bioinstrumentation. Although the price is low, the book doesn't cover what it pretends to cover. The chapters on bioinstrumentation in the back of the book seem shallow and were not very useful for me. I wouldn't buy the book a second time.

Average customer rating:

Bioinstrumentation and Biosensors
Donald L. Wise
Manufacturer: CRC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Biotechnology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Medicine | Subjects | Books

Family & General Practice | Specialties | Medicine | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0824783379

Book Description

This reference text consists of contributed chapters by specialists directly carrying out research and development in this emerging field which joins advanced microelectronics with modern biotechnology. Chapters present novel biotechnology-based microelectronic instruments, such as those used for de

Bioinstrumentation experiments in physiology,

Average customer rating:

Bioinstrumentation experiments in physiology,
Stephen G Rudin
Manufacturer: Harvard Apparatus Foundation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Physiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006CAV3S

Bioinstrumentation: Research, Developments and Applications

Average customer rating:

Bioinstrumentation: Research, Developments and Applications

Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Medicine | Subjects | Books

Family & General Practice | Specialties | Medicine | Subjects | Books

General | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0409902349

Dynamic Bioinstrumentation (Selected Papers Presented at the 5th National ISA Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Symposium)

Average customer rating:

Dynamic Bioinstrumentation (Selected Papers Presented at the 5th National ISA Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Symposium)
Robert D. Allison
Manufacturer: Instrument Society of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KEPSDU

Forensic Analysis of Digital Image Tampering

Average customer rating:

AWESOME PIECE OF WORK!!!!

Forensic Analysis of Digital Image Tampering

Manufacturer: Storming Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423521935

Product Description

This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A215034. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The use of digital photography has increased over the past few years, a trend which opens the door for new and creative ways to forge images. The manipulation of images through forgery influences the perception an observer has of the depicted scene, potentially resulting in ill consequences if created with malicious intentions. This poses a need to verify the authenticity of images originating from unknown sources in absence of any prior digital watermarking or authentication technique. This research explores the holes left by existing research; specifically, the ability to detect image forgeries created using multiple image sources and specialized methods tailored to the popular JPEG image format. In an effort to meet these goals, this thesis presents four methods to detect image tampering based on fundamental image attributes common to any forgery. These include discrepancies in 1) lighting and 2) brightness levels, 3) underlying edge inconsistencies, and 4) anomalies in JPEG compression blocks. Overall, these methods proved encouraging in detecting image forgeries with an observed accuracy of 60% in a completely blind experiment containing a mixture of 15 authentic and forged images.

Customer Reviews:

AWESOME PIECE OF WORK!!!!.......2006-05-04

This book actually makes me get up in the morning. I can't think of a better way to spend my Saturday mornings, than grab a cup of coffee, a blanket, curl up by the fire, and read a terrific piece of work from Mr. Sturak. This guy is one hell of an author.

Introduction to Bioinstrumentation: With Biological, Environmental, and Medical Applications (Contemporary Instrumentation and Analysis)

Average customer rating:

Introduction to Bioinstrumentation: With Biological, Environmental, and Medical Applications (Contemporary Instrumentation and Analysis)
Clifford D. Ferris
Manufacturer: Humana Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Clinical | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books

Biochemistry | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books

General | Medicine | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0896030032

Mechanical and Ballistic Data for A12519 Plate, Forgings, and Weldments

Average customer rating:

Mechanical and Ballistic Data for A12519 Plate, Forgings, and Weldments

Manufacturer: Storming Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423531213

Product Description

This is a ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A704883. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The development and potential use of aluminum-armor alloys in the design and construction of combat vehicles has been repeatedly scrutinized as the military continually pushes toward lightweight, mobile, and more deployable forces. In doing so, it is necessary to fully characterize and understand the engineering material properties and the ballistic resistance of any prospective material. Aluminum 2519 (A12519) was developed nearly 20 years ago as a high- strength, heat-treatable alloy with excellent ballistic performance. This alloy was not utilized extensively beyond the experimental phase and as such has not been continually produced by the aluminum industry. Therefore, when the utilization of this alloy recently became expected, questions arose about the ability of the suppliers to reproduce the same product that had been developed in the past. As part of the ensuing analysis, the engineering properties and the chemical and ballistic resistance of the alloy required validation. Additionally, work needed to be performed to verify that the alloy and its various heat treatments were feasible for joining in the construction of armored vehicles. Several common heat treatments were characterized, in addition to the most common weld joints presently designed by Team Crusader.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books