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This paper shades light on the analysis of signs that used in industrial companies as a communication tool. This study focuses on semiotics that is used by petroleum, construction and chemical companies to communicate with workers for many purposes, like giving instructions, orientations, prohibitory and warning purposes. System of semiotics is everywhere in the foreign/local companies and it is widespread. Anyone can see these indexes, symbols and icons on the doors, windows, walls, gates, oil pipes, machines, near wells and in many areas inside the companies. This study tackles the analysis of these signs in two levels, i.e., connotation and detonation, according to Roland Barthes's Approach in order to get the core meaning of signs, by studying their pictograms, colors and shapes.

This study aims to identify and rank the critical factors affecting risk management from the perspective of top and Lower Management in Jordanian industrial companies. Based on a rigorous literature review, critical factors affecting risk management are factors related to (1) flexibility and adaptation in the economic environment; (2) company characteristics; (3) external audit quality; (4) government rules and regulations; (5) top management and the board of directors; (6) organizational structure; (7) internal audit effectiveness; (8) trust; (9) human resources efficiency and training (10); communications (11); information technology (12); and the company's culture. Quantitative research methods were used. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to a random sample of senior managers of industrial companies in Jordan. Kendall and Mann–Whitney tests, RII, and EFA were used to analyze the acquired data. The results show that all discussed factors have an effect on risk management, and there is no difference between top and Lower Management's opinions regarding the ranking of the importance of those factors on risk management. This study provides an original perspective on the concept of risk management and the factors that impact it. These findings have important implications for Jordanian industrial companies' decision makers. Companies should apply the results to their strategies and policies to reduce risks.

This study uses the 1920 Moody's Analysis of Industrial Investments to assess the extent of financial reporting by U.S. industrial companies. The reporting of an income statement and a balance sheet, as well as the amount of disclosure in both of these statements, is examined empirically to determine which economic factors influence this reporting. The results show that corporate-governance, operating, and financing factors all significantly influence the reporting of financial statements and the extent of disclosure within those statements. However, the significant factors vary across the two financial statements and the two decisions considered (reporting a particular statement and the amount of disclosure within the statement to report). All factors are shown to influence significantly the decision to report both a balance sheet and an income statement and the amount of information to report in a balance sheet. The decision regarding the amount of information to report in an income statement is only influenced by corporate-governance and operating factors.

Large privately-owned national industrial groups and companies are strongly situated in Latin American markets in the second half of the 1990s. This is the result of the structural transformation of regional and international economies since the beginning of the 1980s. These groups, together with the affiliates of transnational companies, are now the largest and the most dynamic business units operating in the region. Their predominance has been consolidated by the privatization of the great majority of state industrial companies. These findings are included in a 472-page ECLAC publication on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico of which some of the main results are reproduced in this paper. (Notas Econ Desarro Am Lat/DÜI)

"CRM Systems in Industrial Companies" contributes new knowledge on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in the field of industrial marketing. Based on an in-depth case study, this book highlights the complexity and challenges in the development, implementation and use of CRM. This book proposes an alternative conceptualization of CRM: relying on the industrial marketing and purchasing (IMP) perspective, CRM becomes a socio-technical "resource" which needs to be connected to the other resources before it can create effects on customer relationships. Featuring an extensive case study of an internally developed CRM system, the book unveils the non-linear and unpredictable nature of implementing and using CRM. Having installed the CRM system is no guarantee that it will be utilized and create effects on customer relationships. As this book demonstrates, CRM can contribute value only if it becomes interfaced with individual users, and with intra- and inter- organizational context of use. More precisely, in order to produce positive effects, CRM has to match the individual user's specific information needs and attitude toward IT; it has to be supported by high internal coordination between organizational units; and it has to match the history and logic of the external relationships to which it is applied. By highlighting these demanding conditions, this book reveals how truly challenging it is to extract value from CRM systems