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  • How well these lessons prepare them for life outside of the factory or indeed an almost factoryless society is another story.

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • How well these lessons prepare them for life outside of the factory or indeed an almost factoryless society is another story.

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • How well these lessons prepare them for life outside of the factory or indeed an almost factoryless society is another story.

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • How well these lessons prepare them for life outside of the factory or indeed an almost factoryless society is another story.

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • But R.G. Barry has only been in its current (factoryless) form for about 5 years.

    GuruFocus Updates - 2010

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  • This paper evaluates the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent data collection efforts to classify business entities that engage in an extreme form of production fragmentation called “factoryless” goods production. “Factoryless” goods-producing entities outsource physical transformation activities while retaining ownership of the intellectual property and control of sales to customers. Responses to a special inquiry on the incidence of purchases of contract manufacturing services in combination with data on production inputs and outputs, intellectual property, and international trade is used to identify and document characteristics of “factoryless” firms in the U.S. economy.
    Fariha Kamal, A Portrait of U.S. Factoryless Goods Producers, NBER Working Paper No. 25193 (Oct. 2018)

    November 7, 2018