Management Science category: 4086 books
Project Management for Research
A guide for engineering and science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Graduate research is a complicated process which many engineering and science students aspire to undertake. The complexity of the process can lead to failures for even the most brilliant students. Success with graduate level research requires not only a high level of intellectual ability, but also...
Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management
Models and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management presents some of the most important methods and tools available for modeling and solving problems arising in the context of supply chain management. In the context of this book, “solving problems” usually means designing efficient algorithms for...
Public Management
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Public management is undoubtedly an acknowledged area of management science, but with meager empirical research. This book takes this challenge and presents a rare analysis of public management from the perspective of 12 Prime Ministers of Poland who governed between 1989 and 2014. The author features...
Boundary Management
Developing Business Architectures for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
"Business architecture" is a concept for optimizing corporate boundaries aimed at realizing targeted business models and corporate system design involving stakeholders. To optimize the corporate boundaries, companies must partially and/or wholly optimize the individual management elements...
Facility Integrity Management
Effective Principles and Practices for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Facility Integrity Management: Effective Principles and Practices for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries presents the information needed to completely understand common failures in the facility integrity management process. By understanding this more comprehensive approach, companies will be...
by J Michael Bennett, Danny S. K. Ho
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Project Management for Engineers, as the title suggests, is a direct attempt at addressing the ever-increasing and specific needs for better project management of engineering students, practicing engineers and managers in the industry. It aims not only to present the principles and techniques of Project...
Crisis Information Management
Communication and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
This book explores the management of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises. Natural disasters, such as the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 and human-made crises, such as the recent political disruption in...
by Tania Mol
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2003
Unlike most books on this subject, Productive Safety Management, described in this book, integrates occupational health and safety, human resource management, environmental management, and engineering to provide a whole-business approach to effective safety management.
The book helps companies...
by Mike Barker, B.Sc (Elec.Eng), Jawahar Rawtani
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
Historically batch control systems were designed individually to match a specific arrangement of plant equipment. They lacked the ability to convert to new products without having to modify the control systems, and did not lend themselves to integration with manufacturing management systems.
Practical...
Engineering Management
Meeting the Global Challenges, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Engineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges prepares engineers to fulfill their managerial responsibilities, acquire useful business perspectives, and take on the much-needed leadership roles to meet the challenges in the new millennium. Value addition, customer focus, and business perspectives...
Sustainable Value Chain Management
Delivering Sustainability Through the Core Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
This book introduces the integrated management concept of "Sustainable Value Creation", which delivers sustainability ‘inside-out’ from the core business. It is based on the premise that sustainability can provide a platform for growth, if it is implemented in a company’s products,...
by John M. Nicholas, Herman Steyn
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Project Management for Engineering, Business and Technology, 5th edition, addresses project management across all industries. First covering the essential background, from origins and philosophy to methodology, the bulk of the book is dedicated to concepts and techniques for practical application....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
How are public service organizations governed? How can their performance be measured, managed and improved? Public services play a central role in the well-being, sustainability and growth of communities, cities and nations. Managing to Improve Public Services shows how management can be harnessed...
Models and Applications in the Decision Sciences
Best Papers from the 2015 Annual Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
NEW ADVANCES IN THE SCIENCE OF DECISION MAKING:
Practical and relevant research from DSI, the field’s leading organization
14 OUTSTANDING PAPERS APPLYING RIGOROUS RESEARCH METHODS TO IMPORTANT SOCIETAL AND BUSINESS DECISION ENVIRONMENTS
NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN STRATEGY,...