In the lean management literature, it is mentioned that product platforms foster lean product
development and production. Although product platforms are well known for several effects …

In many industries, companies use product platforms as a means to reduce costs and obtain
access to multiple market segments by developing different product variants. Product …

Most of the innovation management literature refers to the benefits of external knowledge. It
follows then that companies invest a great deal of effort and resources in developing …

This book is the planned successor to A Geologic Time Scale by WB Harland, AV Cox, PG
Llewellyn, CAG Pickton, AG Smith and R. Walters published in 1982. It adopts the same style …

America is drifting towards another collision with Asian countries. This book sets the situation
in perspective by tracing the development of relations between them during the last two …

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical
social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the …

We show that, for any tubular algebra, the lattice of pp-definable subgroups of the direct sum
of all indecomposable pure-injective modules of slope r has m-dimension 2 if r is rational, …

… Harland). I would like to thank the organizations and staffs responsible for maintaining
the archeological sites and museums for permission to view and photograph these ancient …

… AUTHOR'S NOTE: Portions of this chapter are reproduced from Harland (1993). Defining
a continuum of sanctions: Some research and policy implications. Perspectives, 17(2), 6-15. …

… The right of Philip Harland to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work has
been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 …