This book comes from the authors PhD thesis for the PhD in "Economia e Finanza nel Governo dellImpresa" ("Business administration and finance for firms governance" at University of Rome La Sapienza, in Italy.The work was written in 2003 during the authors research semester at the Faculty of Economics of University of Nagasaki in Japan. The book attempts to explain why and how the lean production is deeply rooted in the Japanese culture and the Japanese business environment. In order to understand the Japanese supply chain we first have to understand what Japanese do in their...

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Business Systems Review is a peer reviewed, half-yearly journal, published by the non-profit association Business Systems Laboratory. BSR publishes high level and innovative theoretic, qualitative, quantitative and empirical contributions of researchers and practitioners in the business systems field. The journal aims to endow a multi-field approach with a special emphasis on the systemic approach for business. Content: - Zhelyu Vladimirov, Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva, Kaloyan Ganev. SIGNIFICANCE OF GLOBALIZATION-SPECIFIC FACTORS FOR SME COMPETITIVENESS: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL AND AN EMPIRICAL TEST....

Oggi il ruolo delle Universita non si limita piu soltanto alle tradizionali attivita di formazione e di ricerca. La cosiddetta Seconda Rivoluzione Accademica ha attribuito alle Universita una "terza missione," che consiste nella valorizzazione e commercializzazione della conoscenza accedemica sul mercato. L'Universita diviene cosi "entrepreneurial university" creando valore non solo in termini di conoscenza ma anche di innovazione e sviluppo economico. Il libro intende approfondire il ruolo che le Universita rivestono nel processo di trasferimento di conoscenza innovativa al mercato tramite...