Journal of Business Chemistry September 2007

As frequent readers of the Journal of Business Chemistry will have realized, our journal tries to cover all facets of this broad field. In the past four volumes we have presented topics as diverse as intellectual property in the pharmaceutical industry, incentives for employees in the chemical industry, the human side of innovation, futuring in […]

Abstract Channel management was not until recently the chemical manufacturers’ main concern. Their main priorities were to manufacture and innovate. It was only in the nineties that the marketing imperative prevailed and that cost efficient channel management processes were put in place. Producers facing a tougher competitive environment became aware of the importance to serve […]

Abstract This study focuses on the prices for laboratory testing services and testing capacity in nine of the major European chemicals producing countries. The purpose is to bridge the existing gap of a representative study on test prices and the available testing capacity. At the core are seventy-six test categories, in particular toxicological and ecotoxicological […]

Abstract The paper examines how metaphors play a key role in triggering individual emergence, involving the recognition of a new form, pattern, structure, organisation, model or concept, and then possible behaviour change. Individual emergence is thus of direct interest to the designer of learning systems. Enthalpy change, derived from thermo-chemistry, is mapped to human experience […]

Abstract The German large industrial plant manufacturing industry is currently going through an extraordinary boom phase. Bookings by members of the Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer ́s Group (AGAB) at the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) set a new record in 2006 for the second straight year. This paper highlights the underlying developments in the sale of […]