Journal of Business Chemistry June 2013
Abstract The central question of the following paper is how Chemical Industry Park operators could systematically integrate the external investors’ perspective into their decisions about the park’s future competitive positioning and continuous improvement of operational excellence. In today’s chemical industry landscape, Chemical Industry Parks and their operators face great challenges. On the one hand, they […]
Abstract The founding of the “IFMA Benchmarking® Research Group Chemistry, Pharma and Life Science” actually has its roots in the former professional association IFMA Deutschland e.V., which preceded the organization RealFM e.V.. The acronym was redesignated as „Industrial Facility Management Benchmarking“ and the right to this name was secured. With the founding of the research […]
Abstract The beginning electrification of the automotive powertrain is supposed to have a major impact on the automobile value chain – reshaping it significantly and bringing up new alliances, business models and knowledge bases. Such a transformation of the value chain might fade boundaries between hitherto distinct knowledge bases, technologies, or industries. Over the past […]
1 Introduction Starting in the United States, chemical/industrial parks have been used since the 1950s to foster economic development and to support the change of industry structures (Griefen, 1979; Reisdorph, 1991). In Europe, the shifting of new investments to locations outside of Europe led to a dissatisfying degree of utilisation of industrial sites and the […]