Applies modern economic theories to guide managers in creating successful corporate strategies. This is a book on corporate strategy that uses of the most modern theories in economics to show managers how to succeed in the markets in which they compete. The author takes the position that firms have unique strengths that they must understand and exploit. These strengths will be in four general areas: 1) Their reputation, 2) how well they create innovative new products or services, 3) what spec...
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Production to Order (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, #333)
by Nico Dellaert
In this book, production rules are studied for situations which share some important elements. The most important one is that the products are manufactured according to customer specifications and they will not be manufactured unless they have been ordered. Other elements are the set-ups on the machines, which make a clustering of orders necessary, the backlogging of late orders, a production process with one bottle-neck and a stochastic demand. The purpose is to find a simple production rule, w...
Complexity, Cognition and the City (Understanding Complex Systems)
by Juval Portugali
Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, when grappling with the many issues and facets of regional planning and dynamics. In this work, the author goes beyond merely seeing the city as a self-organized, emerging pattern of some collective interaction between many stylized urban "agents" - he makes the crucial step of attributing cognition...
Summary W. Chan Kim & Renee A. Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy
by Ant Hive Media
The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice provides the first comprehensive overview of an emerging and growing stream of research in strategic management. An international team of scholars has been assembled to produce a systematic introduction to the various epistemological, methodological and theoretical aspects of the strategy-as-practice approach. This perspective explores and explains the contribution that strategizing makes to daily operations at all levels of an organization. Moving...
Once, there was a remarkable person who led with love. Her company succeeded where its competitors struggled. Its customers were loyal, its employees loved to work there, and it was profitable year after year, for decades. This loving leader began her career as an executive secretary, yet the company's founder chose her to succeed him as president. When asked why, he said, "Because she knows how to love people to success." She is Colleen Barrett, President Emeritus of Southwest Airlines. Lead wi...
Planning to Win BIG in Business (Planning to Win BIG in Business, #3)
by Tom Day
Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers
by N. Rathzel, D. Mulinari, and A. Tollefsen
This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of its workers in Sweden, Mexico, South Africa, and India. It investigates how neo-liberalisation has transformed the company into a promoter of lean production, at the expense of the workers' needs.
Corporate Strategy with Airline:A Strategic Management Simulation
by Richard Lynch and Jerald R. Smith
Strategic Competition in Oligopolies with Fluctuating Demand. Lecture Notes Economics and Mathematical Systems
by Leslie Neubecker
Businessplan Und Markterfolg Eines Geschaftskonzepts (Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung Zur Unternehmensfuhrung, #55)
by Philipp Willer