TY - BOOK ID - 14224253 TI - Manufacturing Servitization in the Asia-Pacific AU - Wang, Jing. AU - Kosaka, Michitaka. AU - Xing, Ke. PY - 2016 SN - 9812877568 9812877576 PB - Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Business. KW - Management. KW - Operations research. KW - Decision making. KW - Service industries. KW - Business and Management. KW - Operation Research/Decision Theory. KW - Services. KW - Manufacturing industries KW - Value added KW - Added value KW - Manufacturing processes KW - Industries KW - Manufactures KW - Operations Research/Decision Theory. KW - Administration KW - Industrial relations KW - Organization KW - Operational analysis KW - Operational research KW - Industrial engineering KW - Management science KW - Research KW - System theory KW - Deciding KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision processes KW - Making decisions KW - Management KW - Management decisions KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Problem solving KW - Decision making UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14224253 AB - This book systematically describes the development of manufacturing servitization in the Asia-Pacific region. It offers a practical and theoretical reference guide to the manufacturing companies in the Asia-Pacific region, which is now a major global manufacturing center. Servitization is a fairly recent trend in the manufacturing industry: some American and European manufacturing companies have successfully transformed to service oriented manufacturing companies over the past three decades, while Asian-Pacific region companies have only more recently begun to recognize the importance of servitization. But some Asia-Pacific region companies have been exploring approaches in the same direction of servitization without being aware of the concept. One unique aspect of this book is the fact that it takes into consideration the social and cultural influences of this region. It introduces companies within and beyond the region, as well as the academic world, to the current state of development of the Asia-pacific manufacturing industry and its servitization trend. This is the first book that focuses on this topic, one which is of great theoretical and practical importance. ER -