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Collective Representations, Divided Memory and Patterns of Paradox: Mining and Shipbuilding [PDF]

This paper seeks to examine the different relationship of two industries to their potential for representation and celebration in collective memory. Looking at case studies of mining and shipbuilding in the shared location of Wearside the paper compares ...
Ian Roberts
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Innovation and the great divergence

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
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The Iron and Steel Shipbuilding Data Set, 1825-1914: Sources, Coverage, and Coding Decisions [PDF]

This article is a supporting document to my paper “Selection and Firm Survival. Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, 1825-1914”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1):26-36, February 2005. The article provides a basic description of data sources,
Peter Thompson
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High Strength Steel Fatigue Crack Growth Database for Offshore Renewable Energy Applications

Fatigue &Fracture of Engineering Materials &Structures, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT High strength steels can reduce costs and carbon emissions in offshore renewable energy, but their effect on structural integrity remains unclear. In welded structures, such as support structures for offshore wind and tidal turbines, fatigue life is dominated by crack growth from flaws at weld toes.
Machar Devine, Moray Stiven, Madison Asbury, Ali Mehmanparast   +3 more
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Selection and Firm Survival: Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, 1825-1914 [PDF]

Several theories of firm performance can explain the well-known observation that survival is positively related to age. However, a more mundane explanation – selection bias driven by variations in firm quality – may also underlie the phenomenon.
Peter Thompson
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Digital design of shipbuilding networks

, 2022
S.540-545Shipbuilding projects are gaining in complexity and volume. To face this demand shipyards tend to share work content and constitute shipbuilding networks.
Sender, Jan, Illgen, B., Flügge, W.
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“Somebody Else's Discrimination”: (Un)Making Gender Discrimination in Research and Development in Turkey

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines discourses of gender discrimination in Turkey's business enterprise sector of research and development (R&D), where women comprise only 27% of the workforce. Drawing on 308 surveys and 52 in‐depth interviews with professionals across three major R&D centers and a university technopark, it analyzes the discursive formations ...
Setenay Nil Doğan, Ece Öztan
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Outsourcing of logistics functions in Shipbuilding cluster system [PDF]

, 2020
Запорожець, І. М. Аутсорсинг логістичних функцій в суднобудівній кластерній системі = Outsourcing of logistics functions in Shipbuilding cluster system / І. М. Запорожець // Економічний простір : зб. наук. пр. – Дніпро : ПДАБА, 2020. – № 162. – С.
Запорожець, І. М., Zaporozhets, Iryna   +1 more
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Internet of Things Driven Digital Twin for Intelligent Manufacturing in Shipbuilding Workshops

Future Internet
Intelligent manufacturing research has focused on digital twins (DTs) due to the growing integration of physical and cyber systems. This study thoroughly explores the Internet of Things (IoT) as a cornerstone of DTs, showing its promise and limitations ...
Caiping Liang, Xiang Li, Wenxu Niu, Yansong Zhang   +3 more
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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
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