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Hans Sjögren, professor vid Handelshögskolan och Linköpings universitet, skärskådar bolagsstyrningen i det skandinaviska flygbolaget SAS. SAS har länge varit en ikon för skandinaviskt näringsliv och en plats för tekniska, organisatoriska och estet...

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"Otaliga gånger har nyfikna själar ställt mig frågan om hur jag blivit den jag är. Vad är det som har drivit mig? Hur har jag tagit mig dit jag kommit? Mitt svar har varit: livet utvecklar sig, oförutsägbart och mångtydigt. Livet faktiskt bar...

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Under nästan fyra decennier var Leif Östling verksam på buss- och lastbilsföretaget Scania. Mot bakgrund av såväl historiskt monumentala skiften som tekniska språng och konjunkturers svallvågor, utvecklades den person som för många idag är välkänd...

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Det är sent 1980-tal och det skandinaviska flygbolaget SAS är på topp. Jan Carlzon är internationellt erkänd företagsledare och både han och SAS spås en lysande framtid. Ett par decennier senare är bolaget en hårsmån från konkurs. Tillgångar säljs...

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Petsamotrasfiken är åkerinäringens märkligaste uppdrag. Några veckor efter finska vinterkriget 1939-40 fick svenska åkare uppdraget att på en 680 kilometer lång, smal grusväg genom det krigshärjade Finland, transportera jaktflygplan som kom med bå...

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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the drama...

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Whether you're negotiating with an angry boss or a difficult colleague - or, indeed, a stubborn teenager - you can learn to use your emotions to help you achieve the result you want. Building Agreement shows you how to control the five 'core conce...

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The key to rising to the top of your company lies in a simple message and philosophy. The ultimate inspirational story for ambitious innovators, market-disruptors, and global business entrepreneurs. Celebrating DHL's fiftieth anniversary as a worl...

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BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Winner of a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship 2011 and a Mountbatten Maritime Award 2013 An award-winning investigation into the shady world of international shipping, the hidden industry upon which our world t...

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This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization. The authors analyse political and institutional patterns alongs...

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This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against theFrench ship of the line ...

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Combining a ship finance textbook with a jet setting geopolitical romp, Viking Raid picks up where The Shipping Man left off on a journey into the famously private world of international shipping tycoons and their financiers. At the conclusion of ...

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Port Economics, Management and Policy provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary port industry, showing how ports are organized to serve the global economy and support regional and local development. Structured in eight sections plus an...

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Interflug was the airline of communist East Germany. Their route map was flown by exotic Soviet-built airliners and shaped by political alliances, with trips into war zones in some of the most obscure corners of the planet, all under the constant ...

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Approximately 80 per cent of European and American citizens live in an urban environment. Due to their large populations and extensive commercial establishments, urban areas require large quantities of goods and services for commercial and domesti...

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Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice...

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Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of the city, ...

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"The foundation has been laid for fully autonomous," Elon Musk announced in 2016, when he assured the world that Tesla would have a driverless fleet on the road in 2017. "It's twice as safe as a human, maybe better." Promises o...

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Global Airlines: Competition in a Transnational Industry presents an overview of the changing scene in air transport covering current issues such as security, no frills airlines, 'open skies' agreements, the outcome of the recent downturn in econo...

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Detroit's Streetcar Heritage is a photographic essay of the Detroit, Michigan, streetcar system. Replacement of slow moving horsecar service began with the opening of an electric street railway by the Detroit Citizens Street Railway in 1892. By 19...

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Aircraft System Safety: Assessments for Initial Airworthiness Certification presents a practical guide for the novice safety practitioner in the more specific area of assessing aircraft system failures to show compliance to regulations such as FAR...

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The Olympic Airways story has fascinated Graham M. Simons for many years. This new book represents the culmination of decades spent researching the history of this fascinating Greek airline. It is a story of evolution, conflict, personality and po...

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General Aviation Aircraft Design, Second Edition , continues to be the engineer's best source for answers to realistic aircraft design questions. The book has been expanded to provide design guidance for additional classes of aircraft, including s...

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Detta är den dramatiska berättelsen om hur det en gång beundrade och nytänkande flygbolaget SAS blev krisstämplat och förtalat. Det är sent 1980-tal och det skandinaviska flygbolaget SAS är på topp. Jan Carlzon är internationellt erkänd företagsle...

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In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolise everything wrong with Silicon V...

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The growth of cities, and informal economies within them, are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. This book contributes to our understanding of both, through a study of public transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's...

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