Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND DEWEY. / Bibliography: leaves 129-133. / by Robert Charles Salipante. / M.S.

Abstract Throughout the engineering in Taiwan, due to the rapid development of engineering technology, engineering increasingly large scale, business has been facing ever faster and greater impact; however, SMEs have long played the Taiwan's driving force in economic growth. Therefore, facing the situation of global competition, companies how to respond to times changing and overcome difficulties then evolve, strategically transformation is even more important. The researchers involved in heavy machine engineering professional installation industry up to thirty years long. In the professional installation of mechanical engineering project management experience, have deeply realized that the heavy machine construction industry is largely impacted by the economic cycle and national policies. Heavy machine engineering industry is the services provider in the industry supply chain for the steel industry, shipbuilding and petrochemical industry, energy industry and environmental protection products industry. The current Taiwan industrial development status in today's perspective, the petrochemical industry is the heavy machine construction industry to the biggest support industry. Case studied company is a local medium-sized heavy mechanical machine installation company provides functional products for the industrial market. Because the client faces international risk management and international competitiveness thinking, the future business risk changes and uncertainties will be bound by potential clients and constraints. Such as South Korea's Samsung, Japan¡¦s CHOYOTA, etc., as a long-term business perspective, they will definitely affect and raise this company's international operations threshold and entrance barriers. Furthermore, medium-sized engineering company as like large engineering companies is also required constantly cost-price competition. Resources are not as much as large companies in economies scale financial size and human resources, how to find core competition of medium-sized engineering manufacture company and implement transformation of organizational change strategies are the main motivations of this thesis study. This thesis study takes the interview to study the case company, first of all to understand of the domestic small and medium sized engineering manufacture industry profile, case company operating situation, finally analysis the transformation operate strategy of the case company, the result appears that the case company "the problems change faced by the company" and the "Innovation Challenge of Development " are two key factors for the company transformation strategy. The research result is sufficient to provide small and medium sized engineering manufacturing industry as a future strategic policy reference. For the medium-sized engineering manufacturing industry in the industry sector in the value of the core competitiveness, supply chain management for reviewing source of corporate competitiveness. Keywords¡G Engineering industry, business transformation strategy, heavy industry, industrial development

Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2004.

Thesis (MCom.) -- University of the Western Cape, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.(leaves 188-197)

Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2009.

M.B.A. / The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is a self-financing, state owned, national development finance institution that provides risk financing to entrepreneurs engaged in a multitude of industries. Its vision is to be the primary driving force of commercially sustainable industrial development in South Africa. International research has shown that the catalyst for promoting and sustaining industrial development in many countries is the contribution made by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In South Africa, extensive research has shown that the growth of these enterprises is currently stifled by the lack of access to finance, mainly from commercial banks and private equity financiers, who have imposed onerous lending criteria on this market sector. The literature also reveals that alternative state and private sector financial institutions have been unable to fill this finance vacuum adequately. The IDC, as a national development finance institution, currently operates in the SME market by making loan finance available to these companies, provided that they meet its' extensive funding criteria. This dissertation examines the role the IDC is currently playing in the financing of SMEs by undertaking an assessment of the IDC's loan criteria. Recommendations based on the assessment are made with a view to improving the number of SMEs helped with financial assistance by the IDC.

Russia's position as one of the two greatest powers in the world of today is generally known. Industrial development, on of the factors that has played the major role in raising her to this position, is too often slighted in studies in favor of political and social matters. Her industrial development is unparalleled; it is completely single and unique. Because of all these factors the writer has endeavored to trace the development of Russia's basic industries and railroads up to 1932.

Rapid and sustainable economic growth and progressive social and spatial development through industrial development, has been a persistent challenge for the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A commonly held "solution" to this challenge has been to provide access of manufactured goods from the SSA-region to the dynamic markets of the affluent North. This perceived wisdom led to the passing of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in 2000 by the 200th Congress of the United States of America. In this exploratory study, the experience of Lesotho with AGOA, with specific reference to the economic and spatial development outcomes of the Act in the country, is explored. The findings of the study reveal that the larger settlements where the AGOA-factories are located have shown little improvement, neither from an economic, nor from a spatial perspective. The same applied to villages to which AGOA factory workers sent their remittances. This was due to the meagreness of the remittances a function of the low wages paid in the factories and the resulting limited disposable income to support small-scale businesses in these villages. While AGOA did result in the creation of tens of thousands of job opportunities for unskilled and semi-skilled Basotho youth, it did not provide them with portable skills for use after leaving the factory floor. AGOA was also not found to have motivated the youth or local entrepreneurs to tap into the manufacturing sector. On the spatial development side, a number of landlords in the larger settlements subdivided their land and built residential rental units for the factory workers. Some landlords also sold their land illegally and informally, resulting in haphazard land development. The research findings suggest that, while "trade and development boosting tools", like AGOA, may be useful in providing term-based job opportunities for unskilled workforce, they will most likely not have as significant a positive impact on (1) the local economy, (2) the creation of an indigenous industrial class, or (3) the building of sustainable human settlements. Other supporting instruments, in addition to tools such as AGOA, will need to be developed locally, to achieve these goals. In addition to the research findings providing an insight into the experience of Lesotho with AGOA, they should also be of assistance to scholars and policy-makers working on the development of trade-driven tools in support of struggling regions. / Dissertation (MTRP)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / Town and Regional Planning / MTRP / Unrestricted

In researching and writing a paper on the develop— -ment of industry in the city of Brantford, 1844 to 1925, it became apparent to me that a study showing the ' interplay of all land uses in the central area of the city was desirable. No cohesive and continuous geogra- -phical record of the land uses in early Brantford presently exists. Material documenting the history and geography of the city prior to 1850 is particularly scarce. My primary objective, therefore, was to at least attempt to create such a record for this city, by tying together all of the varied bits and pieces of data relating to lend use in early Brantford. A second desire was to see if one could identify the date and circumstances under which zones of specialized land use first emerged in the central area of the city. It is quite clear that the early community would have a mix of land uses due in part to the time factor (nine- -teenth century) and to the scale (under 4000 population in a pioneer region) factor. Yet in spite of these controls, recognizable specialized land use areas did emerge at a surprisingly early date. The final objective was to see if the factors that influenced the growth and change in the central area, particularly those that relate to specialization, could be identified and isolated for this one community. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Institutions are crucial in reflecting the economic and political conditions of their time. This thesis analyses the features of establishment process of the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB) in close relation with the World Bank and the activities of the TSKB in its first four years between 1950 and 1953. The arguments of Development economics and the dependency theory are utilized in the discussion. The main objective of the study is to bring out the link between the establishment of a privately owned development bank in Turkey, aiming to promote private industry, and the economic environment at the time, including the Cold War atmosphere affecting internal and external politics of Turkey. Moreover, it is put forward that the sectors chosen for credit allocation are compatible with the international division of labor of the time. That is, the TSKB has channeled international funds in a way aiming at Turkey&rsquo / s integration to the world markets as a supplier of agro-industrial goods.