Authors:Jens J. Dahlgaard, Kai Kristensen, Ghopal K. Khanji,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: management, quality, total, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-02-04
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0748772936
ISBN-13: 9780748772933

The principles of Total Quality Management have proven to be invaluable to organizations in all sectors of business and commerce and to the individuals they comprise. Indeed many organizations have discovered the relationship between quality and profitability. Now, more than ever, it is important to develop a quality strategy by adopting the principles of TQM. This important text provides a solid framework for understanding the basic concepts of TQM. It comprises three interlinked modules - fundamentals of TQM, methods of TQM and process management and improvement - and provides an integrat

Authors:Craig Langston, Rima Lauge-Kristensen,
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: facilities, management, strategic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-12-27
List price: $66.95
ISBN-10: 0750654406
ISBN-13: 9780750654401

The effective management of facilities can significantly improve business productivity. In this textbook the authors provide an overview of facility economics and outline the way in which businesses and facility managers can get better value from their physical assets.Students on facilities management and property related degrees will find this an invaluable introduction. * Learn how to get better value from facilities management* Provides an overview of a new and developing subject * Outlines the link between the facility and business productivity

Authors:Don Canfield, Erik Kristensen, Bo Thamdru,
Publisher: Academic Pre
Keywords: marine, biology, advances, volume, geomicrobiology, aquatic
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2005-03-08
List price: $177.00
ISBN-10: 0120261472
ISBN-13: 9780120261475

Microbes catalyze countless chemical reactions in nature which control the chemistry of the environment. Aquatic Geomicrobiology looks at these reactions and their effect on the aquatic environments from the perspective of the microbes involved. The volume begins with three introductory chapters outlining the basic principles of microbial systematics, microbial ecology, and chemical thermodynamics. These provide a framework for exploring the microbial control of elemental cycling in the remaining chapters. Readers will learn how microbes control the cycling of elements, the structure of the mi

Authors:Don Canfield, Erik Kristensen, Bo Thamdrup,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: marine, biology, advances, v48, geomicrobiology, volume, aquatic
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2005-03-31
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 0121583406
ISBN-13: 9780121583408

Microbes catalyze countless chemical reactions in nature which control the chemistry of the environment. Aquatic Geomicrobiology looks at these reactions and their effect on the aquatic environments from the perspective of the microbes involved. The volume begins with three introductory chapters outlining the basic principles of microbial systematics, microbial ecology, and chemical thermodynamics. These provide a framework for exploring the microbial control of elemental cycling in the remaining chapters. Readers will learn how microbes control the cycling of elements, the structure of the mi

Authors:Peer Hull Kristensen, Jonathan Zeitlin,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: constitution, multinational, corporation, strategic, games, players, global, local
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2004-12-09
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0199275610
ISBN-13: 9780199275618

What happens when previously autonomous firms from different countries, each with their own identities, routines and capabilities, come together inside a single multinational corporation? Can a cooperative strategy be established that advances the development of the multinational as a whole, or do mutual misunderstandings and the unintended consequences of strategic interaction among the players’ lead instead to endemic conflict and disintegration? This book tackles these novel and important questions through an empirical study of the strategic constitution of an ’actually existin

Authors:Peer Hull Kristensen, Kari Lilja,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: organization, welfare, institutions, economic, forms, capitalisms, globalization, new, nordic
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2011-03-15
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199594538
ISBN-13: 9780199594535

In the early 1990s the Nordic countries were considered to be in a serious situation. The costs of welfare states, generous unemployment benefits, high taxation rates, strong unions, and centralized wage bargaining were thought to be undermining their competitiveness in an age of rapid globalization. By 2005 however, they all ranked at the top of a number of performance indexes on economic competitiveness and sustainability. Citizens in the Nordic countries continue to participate in and benefit from globalization on a much wider scale than in any other similarly highly developed country, and

Authors:Caryl Kristensen, Marilyn Kentz,
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: lid, cycle, spin, life, motherload
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0060929286
ISBN-13: 9780060929282

Two of America’s favorite mommies bring you their savvy, saucy, savagely amusinglook at life in the sac. cul-de-sac, that is.