Over 300 years ago an alchemist-come-chemist immersed clean iron into molten zinc; to his amazement a shimmering silver coating developed on the iron. This was to become the first step in the genesis of the galvanizing process. Unknown to many, galvanizing is all around us today, and plays an important ...
International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on the relationship between international economic integration and domestic performance. It is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers that have been published in various scholarly ...
The biggest problems faced in designing, managing and integrating computer systems are often not technical, but 'socio-technical'. Using examples of portals, supply chains, ebusiness and elearning systems, the potential for harnessing 'soft' factors to competitive advantage in distributed networked systems are discussed.