Environmental and Resource Policy for Consumer Durables (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

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A recent line of research in environmental and resource economics deals with the analysis of the so-called product-related environmental policy, i.e. the regulation of certain product characteristics which are mainly determined by producers and which influence the impact of consumption goods on the environment. In this line of literature, only little attention has been paid to the role of product durability. The present study aims at filling this gap. It investigates the relationship between (built-in) product durability, production emissions, solid consumption waste and recycling. The main task is to identify inefficiencies in the durability choice of producers and to assess regulatory policies which aim at correcting for such market failure.

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The nature of the communicator’s job has shifted dramatically in the last decade. While communicators still prepare speeches, press releases, and articles for corporate magazines, they are now being asked to perform managerial duties, including planning, consulting with stakeholders, and advising CEOs and vice presidents.

With these additional responsibilities as a focus, Communication Planning takes a comprehensive approach to examining the role of integrated planning in modern organizations. Author Sherry Ferguson divides the book into four parts: 1) establishing strategic planning cultures, 2) writing different types of communication plans, 3) theoretical foundations of communication planning, and 4) strategic approach to planning for issues management.

This book breaks new ground in the study of organizational communication and public relations and contains essential information for consultants, practitioners, and students.

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A step-by-step guide for successful implementation.......2007-01-28

This book gives the best guide on how to plan strategy, operations and work for communication ventures.
I would put this in the "public relations best practices" category, unlike other texts or practices, this puts the communication professional in touch with the hardcore business players in their corporations or their clients' professional team of executives.
It is helping me a lot stating in the proper words, what my client should be doing in terms of communication, to achieve its business goals.
This has also helped me in getting more customer satisfaction for what I do.

This is an author review by Sherry Devereaux Ferguson........1999-11-10

The nature of the communicator's job has shifted dramatically in the last decade. While communicators still prepare speeches, press releases, and articles for corporate magazines, they are now being asked to perform managerial duties, including planning, consulting with stakeholders, and advising CEOs and vice presidents.

With these additional responsibilities as a focus, Communication Planning takes a comprehensive approach to examining the role of integrated planning in modern organizations. Author Sherry Ferguson divides the book into four parts: 1) establishing strategic planning cultures, 2) writing different types of communication plans, 3) theoretical foundations of communication planning, and 4) strategic approaches to planning for issues management and crisis management.

This book breaks new ground in the study of organizational communication and public relations and contains essential information for consultants, practitioners, and students.

CONTENTS: Introduction \ PART ONE: STRATEGIC PLANNING CULTURES \ The Making of Strategic Planning Cultures \ The Role of Integrated Communication Planning \ PART TWO: INTEGRATED PLANNING PROCESSES \ Writing the Strategic Communication Plan (Multiyear or Annual) \ Writing the Multiyear or Annual Operational and Work Plans \Writing the Communication Support Plan: Planning for Special Events, Campaigns and Issues \ Writing the Contingency Plan for Crises \COMMUNICATION THEORIES: THE FOUNDATION FOR PLANNING \ Understanding the Psychology of Audiences: Beliefs, Attitudes, Values and Needs \ The Bases of Source Credibility \ Message Design: Perception, Cognition and Information Acquisition \ Message Design: Theories of Persuasion \ Choosing the Channel: Lessons Learned \ PART FOUR: STRATEGIC PROCESSES \ Strategic Approaches to Planning forIssues Management \ Planning Cooperative Strategies: Partnering,Consulting and Negotiating

This is an author review by Sherry Devereaux Ferguson........1999-11-10

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The authors set out to take mathematical modeling a couple of steps further by emphasizing the decision making process and the communication of results. They approach each topic via a narrative of a business situation and illustrate the model building process, taking great care to emphasize the model's assumptions and limitations. Each chapter is then organized around a clearly defined set of pedagogical features designed to guide the student through the management science process.

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Good computer modeling book.......2007-07-12

Used this book as part of a MBA computer class. The website makes it easy to work on different computers since Excel files can be downloaded from website or taken from the CD included with the book.

Exercises were good and followed most of the material in the book. Almost all the material applied to "real world" situations.

Applied Management Science: A Computer-Integrated Approach f.......2003-04-01

This is a nobel effort. to try to do a very hard thing. The author however is very hard to follow and at times the explanations drifts into incoherance. Also, I think the author may be too brilliant to write for the average student. He might be better served by having a grad student or military trained person break down the book into coherant steps. This book has some gems of useful info, trapped in some bad explainations. The next version of this may be a truly great textbook. My advice to the author is to simplify and go step by step. Delete text and runon paragraphs where possible. If you take a class based on this book, insist on a lab and a helpful grad student.

nice book.......2000-11-27

It is very nice text book. That what i can say.

Bad Text By Department Chair.......2000-06-13

I was a student at Cal State Fullerton, where these professors teach. This is the worst textbook I have ever read. The text is poorly written. The book doesn't read well and has many typos. I would have expected more from the Management Science Department Chair.

Communication and simulation operations center in a joint training environment: an an integrated approach to simulation, interface, and tactical network ... : An article from: Army Communicator

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Communication and simulation operations center in a joint training environment: an an integrated approach to simulation, interface, and tactical network ... : An article from: Army Communicator
Sun Tzu
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This digital document is an article from Army Communicator, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 4337 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Communication and simulation operations center in a joint training environment: an an integrated approach to simulation, interface, and tactical network monitoring.(Combined Joint Task Force-76 in Afghanistan)
Author: Sun Tzu
Publication: Army Communicator (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
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Volume: 30 Issue: 3 Page: 6(6)

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Measuring the return on investment for advertising and other forms of marketing communications using an integrated marketing communications planning approach

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Measuring the return on investment for advertising and other forms of marketing communications using an integrated marketing communications planning approach
Paul Wang
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In spite of Japanese investment in America and the debate on the competitive edge of Japanese enterprise, we know little about the actual people who are managing and working in Japanese plants. Japanese Industry in the American South describes the industrial cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American South. Choong Soon Kim discusses why Japanese industries are coming to the South, to what extent Japanese industrial management in the South replicates the industrial relations model used in the home plants in Japan, and examines the reactions of Americans toward the Japanese expatriates. The Japanese have had a profound effect on Southerners. Meeting the challenges of the Japanese has led Americans to rediscover their own strengths and weaknesses.

Japanese Industry in the American South offers a different perspective. Western scholars have emphasized the positive aspects of traditional values and practices for Japanese industry, and haveeven romanticized their effects. Utilizing his bicultural experience, Choong Soon Kim discusses how the American public tends to over-estimate Japanese knowledge about American culture and the Japanese ability to be competitive with their American counterparts. He also talks about the idea many Americans still have that Japanese industrialists are so knowledgeable about the South that they can exploit what are seen as southern characteristics: white, rural, polite and non-union--of people who are supposedly eager to work hard for low wages. Conversely, the numerous concessions, compromises, and accommodations required by the Japanese are exposed and analyzed here. Japanese Industry in the American South reveals a more balanced view of Japan's success as well as struggles to remain competitive in an American setting.

Driving from Japan: Japanese Cars in America

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Driving from Japan: Japanese Cars in America
Wanda James
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ASIN: 0786431164
Release Date: 2007-02-07

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This study chronicles the success of the Japanese car in America. Starting with Japan's first gasoline-powered car, the Takuri, it examines early Japanese inventors and automotive conditions in Japan; the arrival of Japanese cars in California in the late 1950s; consumer and media reactions to Japanese manufacturers; what obstacles they faced; initial sales; and how the cars gained popularity through shrewd marketing. Toyota, Honda, Datsun (Nissan), Mazda, Subaru, Isuzu, and Mitsubishi are profiled individually from their origins through the present. An examination follows of the forced cooperation between American and Japanese manufacturers, the present state of the industry in America, and the possible future of this union, most importantly in the race for a more environmentally-sound vehicle.

The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Michael Cusumano
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I wish I had read this first!.......2007-04-28

This is a "Must Read" if you are a serious student of 'Lean Manufacturing'. The book concentrates on factural information, not the myth building stories seen in so many other books on TPS.
A serious history of the Japanese auto industry, not just about Toyota.

Power Steering: Global Automakers and the Transformation of Rural Communities (Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.).)

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Power Steering: Global Automakers and the Transformation of Rural Communities (Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.).)
Michele M. Hoyman
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In Marysville, Ohio; Georgetown, Kentucky; and Smyrna and Spring Hill, Tennessee, life will never again be the same. Once small rural communities, they're now boom towns--thanks to Honda, Toyota, Nissan, and Saturn.

It's happening all over America: communities desperate for economic development lure large companies looking for a docile labor force, cheap real estate, and an alternative to the regulations of cities. But what happens to a small town when it successfully attracts corporate America (or corporate Japan)? As Michele Hoyman shows, from the announcement of plant siting until long after it opens, the town's rural lifestyle is dramatically transformed through radical changes in its politics, public administration, schools, traffic patterns, real estate values, water and sewage systems, police and fire protection, and cultural views.

In Power Steering, Hoyman chronicles such transformations in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee, shows how they emerged, and explains why they matter. She skillfully interweaves agenda-setting theory with impact analysis to demonstrate that economic development is an ongoing process with identifiable stages, not merely a final set of outcomes. Drawing upon extensive interviews with community leaders, public opinion polls, and in-depth analyses of town budgets, she creates a richly detailed study that clearly delineates the economic, social, and political impacts associated with corporate forays into the hinterlands.

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This work brings together original studies of the development of industry from around the world, including a total of nine country studies in the key production and consumption theatres - North and South America, Europe and Japan. It offers new perspectives for all those concerned with the impact of new management arrangements on both employees and management alike.

The Japanese Automobile Industry: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Economics and Economic History)

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The Japanese Automobile Industry: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Economics and Economic History)

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In less than 30 years, the Japanese automobile industry has risen from obscurity to become the world's leading automobile producer. This bibliography, which lists over 600 English-language titles, focuses on the Japanese automobile industry and its development in the postwar era, especially the period of mass expansion from 1980 to the present. It touches particularly on topics pertaining to the Japanese automobile industry as it relates to the U.S. automobile industry, including the operation of the two industries, Japanese transplants in the United States, and government trade issues. It also features case studies of major Japanese automobile manufacturers. Coverage includes books, articles, conference papers, periodicals, government documents, and audio-visual materials. Entries are fully annotated, and the work is indexed.

The Politics of Industrial Recruitment: Japanese Automobile Investment and Economic Development in the American States (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

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The Politics of Industrial Recruitment: Japanese Automobile Investment and Economic Development in the American States (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

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The essays in this volume explore the phenomenon of foreign industrial recruitment in terms of the experience of six mid-American states--Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee--in attracting Japanese automobile assembly facilities. This experience and the choice of plant sites by Mazda, Honda, Fuji-Isuzu, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Nissan was invariably determined by multi-state negotiations and escalating state government incentive packages. To understand this phenomenon and its consequences, the essays in this volume sketch its comparative historical, economic, and legal dimensions; examine the dynamics of Japanese automobile investment in terms of the six site-specific studies; and then place these industrial recruitment experiences within a wider framework of federal-state relations and the prospects for a national industrial policy. Part I illuminates the background to and the comparative setting for the mid-American competition for Japanese automobile plants in the era of international corporate flight. Part II carefully probes the dynamics of development in terms of six site-specific studies. Finally, Part III places these six state industrial recruitment experiences within the wider framework of federal-state relations. This book makes informative reading for anyone interested in the automobile industry, Japanese-American trade polices, and federal-state relations.

Good Mileage: The High-Performance Business Philosophy of Soichiro Honda

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Good Mileage: The High-Performance Business Philosophy of Soichiro Honda
Satoru Otsuki , Tanaka Fumiya , Sakurai Yoko , Yoko Sakurai , and Masaru Ibuka
Manufacturer: Weatherhill Inc.
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The number of people working from home, whether on a part or full time basis, has grown to nearly 50 million. There are many design books that take a decorative point of view for creating a home office, but there has yet to be a complete reference for home office users that covers topics from furniture selection to phone and fax lines. Set Up Your Home Office In a Weekend takes the complete approach to creating a home office by discussing everything from space needs to financial planning to software selection. Home office users will find coverage of such hot topics as setting up office space, selecting computer equipment, connecting to the world, and keeping track of the finances and records. Both the self-employed and small business owners will benefit from the information and resources found in this comprehensive reference.

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Manage the Nitty-Gritty Details of Setting Up a Home Office.......2000-09-22

This is a book about setting up a home office, from a very practical standpoint. You'll learn how to evaluate desks and chairs, how to estimate your computer equipment needs, what kind of window treatments are best for various purposes, and how to find out whether your neighborhood is zoned for home business use. But there is also substantial coverage of the everyday practicalities involved in setting up the "thinking" side of the business, like what tax forms you'll need, what your accounting and incorporation options are, what kind of equipment is necessary to take credit cards, and dozens of other little details that might not have even occurred to you. There are also tips and tricks for staying motivated, getting repeat business, and derailing distractions while being at home all day.

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