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Freight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains: A Social Network Approach
ISBN: 9783790827743 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the business of international freight forwarding from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations.
Examines the business of international freight forwarding from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal tr...
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887,69 |
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Simulation Modelling for Business
ISBN: 9780754632146 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simulation Modelling has been used for many years in the manufacturing sector but has now become a mainstream tool in business situations. This is partly because of the popularity of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and other process based improvement methods that use simulation to help analyse changes in process design. This text book includes case studies in both manufacturing and service situations to demonstrate the usefulness of the approach. A further reason for the increasing popularity of the technique is the development of business orientated and user-friendly windows-based...
Simulation Modelling has been used for many years in the manufacturing sector but has now become a mainstream tool in business situations. This is par...
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827,53 |
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Surviving the Talent Exodus: Navigate the Perfect Storm for Generational Change in the Workplace
ISBN: 9780983695585 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. January 1st, 2008 was an important date for the American workforce. It marked the date when tens of thousands of Baby Boomers began retiring from the workforce each year. Most organizations are not prepared for the coming perfect storm caused by this exodus, the relatively small numbers of Generation X to replace the leaving Baby Boomers, and the work attitudes of Generation Y.No business leader should be without the information provided in this book. Whether or not they are prepared for the shift currently occurring in the workforce, they will soon deal with a new reality. John Grubbs not...
January 1st, 2008 was an important date for the American workforce. It marked the date when tens of thousands of Baby Boomers began retiring from the ...
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106,53 |
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Prediction Markets: Fundamentals, Designs, and Applications
ISBN: 9783834933584 / Angielski / Miękka / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accurate predictions are essential in many areas such as corporate decision making, weather forecasting and technology forecasting. Prediction markets help to aggregate information and gain a better understanding of the future by leveraging the wisdom of the crowds. Trading prices in prediction markets thus reflect the traders' aggregated expectations on the outcome of uncertain future events and can be used to predict the likelihood of these events. This book demonstrates that markets are accurate predictors. Results from several empirical studies reported in this work show the importance of...
Accurate predictions are essential in many areas such as corporate decision making, weather forecasting and technology forecasting. Prediction markets...
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221,90 |
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A New Institutional Economics Perspective on Industry Self-Regulation
ISBN: 9783834935410 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Redesigning Management Education and Research: Challenging Proposals from European Scholars
ISBN: 9780857933584 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The field of management education and research has become an industry of its own - an industry with fierce international competition in a global arena. Here, the authors argue that a series of mechanisms has led to mimicking and thus strategic convergence among business schools. The authors further argue that this has resulted in a loss of relevance and diversity of the management knowledge produced and taught in a multipolar world. They view this as counterproductive to business schools, students, firms, societies and other stakeholders, including scholars themselves.
The field of management education and research has become an industry of its own - an industry with fierce international competition in a global arena...
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568,76 |
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Inside a Secret Software Laboratory: An Ethnographic Study of a Global Software Package Producer
ISBN: 9783834933867 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does one of the world's biggest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suppliers develop software? How do Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and Co really work? Christine Grimm presents a first-hand account of a social researcher who entered the software laboratory of one of the biggest ERP providers. Presenting an in-depth ethnography on how people act within such labs, she reveals the highly unexpected social character of programming and shows how the vendor reorganizes himself to find new ways to respond to the expectations of the market. Furthermore, the author highlights the informal practices when...
How does one of the world's biggest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suppliers develop software? How do Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and Co really work? C...
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201,72 |
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Excel-Based Business Analysis: Forecasting Key Business Trends
ISBN: 9781461420491 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The trend is your friend"is a practical principle often used by business managers, who seek to forecast future sales, expenditures, and profitability in order to make production and other operational decisions. The problem is how best to identify and discover business trends and utilize trend information for attaining objectives of firms.This book contains an Excel-based solution to this problem, applying principles of the authors' "profit system model" of the firm that enables forecasts of trends in sales, expenditures, profits and other business variables. The program, called...
"The trend is your friend"is a practical principle often used by business managers, who seek to forecast future sales, expenditures, and profit...
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201,56 |
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Economics of Information Security and Privacy III
ISBN: 9781461419808 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders, identified market failures dogging Internet security, and assessed investments in cyber-defense. Current contributions build on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools to not only understand threats, but also strengthen security through novel evaluations...
The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security, combining...
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605,23 |
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Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems: 21st-Century Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Development
ISBN: 9781461420613 / Angielski / Miękka / 63 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developed and developing economies alike face increased resource scarcity and competitive rivalry. In this context, science and technology appear as an essential source of competitive and sustainable advantage at national and regional levels. However, the key determinant of their efficacy is the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship-enabled innovation that unlocks and captures the benefits of the science enterprise in the form of private, public or hybrid goods. Linking basic and applied research with the market, via technology transfer and commercialization mechanisms, including... Developed and developing economies alike face increased resource scarcity and competitive rivalry. In this context, science and technology appear a... |
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Plant Design, Facility Layout, Floor Planning
ISBN: 9781466257993 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has been replaced by the author, who in September 2013 has published Plant Layout and Facility PlanningEdition TwoISBN-13: 978-1491222393 It is cheaper, and combines layout with facility planning since they are so closely related. Please look for it on Amazon. My book on all aspects of Industrial Engineering is also available now; Industrial Engineering: Theory, Practice & Application Business and Production Management, Productivity and Capacity ISBN-13: 978-1482301793. It includes all of the 2013 book concerning layout and facility planning.
This book has been replaced by the author, who in September 2013 has published Plant Layout and Facility PlanningEdition TwoISBN-13: 978-1491222393 It...
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91,84 |
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Time and Motion Study What, Why, and How-to
ISBN: 9781466339422 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has been replaced by the author, who in September 2013 has published Time and Motion Study For Capacity and Productivity. ISBN-13: 978-1492221425. It is cheaper, and has more information, especially about capacity and constraints. Please look for it on Amazon. My book on all aspects of Industrial Engineering is also available now; Industrial Engineering: Theory, Practice & Application Business and Production Management, Productivity and Capacity ISBN-13: 978-1482301793. It includes all of the 2013 book concerning time study.
This book has been replaced by the author, who in September 2013 has published Time and Motion Study For Capacity and Productivity. ISBN-13: 978-14922...
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Business Enterprise, Process, and Technology Management: Models and Applications
ISBN: 9781466602496 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Business processes are valuable corporate assets since they directly support corporate business strategies. Business processes, therefore, need to be managed and optimized just as any other business assets. This need has lead to significant advances in the area of Business Process Management (BPM). Business Enterprise, Process and Technology Management: Models and Applications generates a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in concepts, technologies, and applications that enable advanced business process management in various enterprises. The book can be used by both professionals...
Business processes are valuable corporate assets since they directly support corporate business strategies. Business processes, therefore, need to be ...
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Front Line Heroes
ISBN: 9781610660457 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times--it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. In Front Line Heroes, Bruce Hodes offers executives and business leaders advice culled from 30 years of coaching privately held companies ranging from $5 million to $100 million in size. With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: - How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life - 7 essential rules for effective strategic planning - How to transform groups into... It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times--it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques tha... |
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From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence: Assessing Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation (Third Edition)
ISBN: 9781848168831 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other words, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. More recently, this field has fragmented into a number of related disciplines with subtle differences in focus: Knowledge management — how organisations identify, share and exploit their internal competencies, in particular the knowledge of individuals.Organisational learning — the relationship between individual and organisational knowledge and how organisations...
There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other w...
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From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence: Assessing Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation (Third Edition)
ISBN: 9781848168848 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other words, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. More recently, this field has fragmented into a number of related disciplines with subtle differences in focus: Knowledge management — how organisations identify, share and exploit their internal competencies, in particular the knowledge of individuals.Organisational learning — the relationship between individual and organisational knowledge and how organisations...
There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other w...
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258,00 |
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The Teams Audit
ISBN: 9781907766039 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on the experience of scores of team-based companies, this audit gives you a clear picture of your present position on the 'teamworking spectrum'. Use it to identify problems, target future training, develop Action Plans and set goals for individual teams and for your organisation as a whole. Whether you have a well-established teams framework in your company - or are just starting out - the audit will give you reliable answers to questions like these: How many teams - not informal work groups - do we have in the company? What kind of teams are they? (Problem-solving teams, process...
Drawing on the experience of scores of team-based companies, this audit gives you a clear picture of your present position on the 'teamworking spectru...
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Organizational Ambidexterity: Implications for the Strategy-Performance Linkage
ISBN: 9783834931290 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's companies in diverse industries perceive increasing competition and an accelerating pace of change. To cope with these challenges, they need to leverage their current competencies and exploit existing products and services, while simultaneously build new capabilities to develop innovative solutions. Therefore, instead of selecting and maintaining a focus on either efficiency or flexibility, these firms balance resource allocation and become so-called ambidextrous organizations. W. Henning Blarr analyzes this balancing act, requiring the ability to simultaneously pursue both...
Today's companies in diverse industries perceive increasing competition and an accelerating pace of change. To cope with these challenges, they need t...
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201,72 |
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Risks in Modern Society
ISBN: 9789048178322 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The International Section on Machine and System Safety was founded in 1975 to deal with questions on occupational risks in this ?eld at the inter- tional level. It is a member of the Special Commission on Prevention of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). The Special Commission is a body within ISSA that focuses on work-related risks. It has 11 inter- tional Sections as members. ISSA was founded in 1927 with its headquarters in Geneva. It is working worldwide in over 150 countries with nearly 370 member institutions from all ?elds of social security. TheSection on Machine and...
The International Section on Machine and System Safety was founded in 1975 to deal with questions on occupational risks in this ?eld at the inter- tio...
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403,47 |
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Contingent Valuation of Yangtze Finless Porpoises in Poyang Lake, China
ISBN: 9789400727649 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the findings of the study, and offers analysis of both its methodological and policy-related implications. On the methodology side, it assesses and validates the valuation workshop approach; appraises the effect of distance on willingness to pay and the influence of the respondents' ability to pay. From a policy perspective, the book examines the attitudes and preference of respondents on trade-offs between economic growth and ecological use. This book presents the findings of the study, and offers analysis of both its methodological and policy-related implications. On the methodology si... |
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