A dynamic systems modeling approach is being developed for assessing the sustainability of an industrial sector. Assessing systems sustainability is a complex undertaking and entails the synthesis of large quantities of information from different sources. In this approach, those environmental performance measures relevant to the industrial sector in question are first identified. Then a systems...

Industrial structure is one of the main factors that determine energy consumption. Based on China’s energy consumption in 2015 and the goals in 13th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China (The 13th Five-Year Plan), this paper established an input–output fuzzy multi-objective optimization model to estimate the potential impacts of China’s industrial ...

For professionals at the beginning of the 21st century, much of the conventional wisdom on business management and engineering is founded in the 20th century industrial / manufacturing paradigm. In developed economies, however, the service sector now dominates the manufacturing sector, just as manufacturing prevailed over the agricultural sector after the industrial revolution. This chapter pro...

this study is performed in order to study the effect of technical- vocational training on trainee productivity in industrial sector of khorasan and preferring suitable solutions in this field. so labor productivity model was estimated for khorasan industry in period 1985 to 2004. in this model, effects of different variables were investigated on productivity of labor, variables such as: relatio...

The amount of wastewater depends on the technical level of process in each industry sector and will be gradually reduced with the improvement of industrial technologies. The increasing rates of industrial wastewater in developing countries are thought to be much higher than those in developed countries. This fact predicts that industrial wastewater pollution, as a mean environment pollution pro...

An oft-repeated refrain in the development literature has been the “neglect” of the agricultural sector vis-à-vis the industrial sector in the development process of the less developed economies. Because infrastructure is crucially linked to both agricultural and industrial development, poor infrastructure development may make it appear as if slow agricultural growth has caused slow industrial ...

This paper examines the effect of the structural changes arising from the globalisation of production and innovation and from technological changes on the environment. Drawing on theories of international production from international business and innovation, we assess the impact of longterm technological change and changes in international production on the international division of labour and...

This paper presents a new perspective that there is a double-threshold effect in terms of the technology gap existing in the foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillover process in different regional Chinese industrial sectors. In this paper, a double-threshold regression model was established to examine the relation between the threshold effect of the technology gap and technology spil...

Wearable computers like smart glasses or smartwatches enable the use of information systems in application scenarios in which information technology has rarely been used until now. The reason for this is, that users are able to interact with the devices handsfree, e.g. by using voice commands. A hands-free use is in particular relevant for enterprises in the industrial sector, as industrial wor...

The grain procurement and marketing system was established in China in the early 1950s. The primary policy objective was to ensure equal and relatively efficient distribution of limited grain among consumers and industrial users, and to ensure the growth of grain production at the planned rate. At the same time, it was assigned another important task: to divert agricultural surplus into investm...