Business process and operations management Books

The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the 'knowledge economy' has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of...

Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration, takes an unusually international perspective of sustainable innovation with contributions from Australia, Europe, and North America. Prominent policy makers, scientific researchers and...

The broad scope of Cloud Computing is creating a technology, business, sociolo- cal, and economic renaissance. It delivers the promise of making services available quickly with rather little effort. Cloud Computing allows almost anyone, anywhere, at...

​ Technology is the key driver of business. May it be airport, ICT , smart governance, manufacturing or plantations. Technology management opens up opportunities for the business and help achieve leadership positions. This collection of papers provides...

Zarządzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi to funkcja zarządzania polegająca na zatrudnianiu, motywowaniu i utrzymywaniu pracowników w organizacji. Zarządzanie zasobami ludzkimi zajmuje się kwestiami związanymi z pracownikami, takimi jak zatrudnianie, szkolenia,...

When the war ended on August IS, 1945, I was a naval engineering cadet at the Kure Navy Yard near Hiroshima, Japan. A week later, I was demobi­ lized and returned to my home in Tokyo, fortunate not to find it ravaged by...

Japanese semiconductor firms are well known for obtaining dynamics in a short period of time and achieving even global leadership. A significant portion of their success are attributable to cooperative interfirm relations and...

This book assesses the achievements of the software engineering discipline as represented by IT vendors in Japan in order to deepen understanding of the mechanisms of how software engineering capabilities relate to IT vendors' business performance and...

Selecting a suitable production control policy is a challenging task for managers because the superiority of one control over the other is controversial. This book analyzes pull production systems and provides a guideline to choose and implement a proper...

This is the first book to report the details of the current status of interfirm relationships in Japan. Based on a unique data set of firms, the authors describe the characteristics of interfirm transactions in a manner...

​Analyzing the relation between population factors and technological progress is the main purpose of this book. With its declining population, Japan faces the simple but difficult problem of whether sustained economic growth can be maintained. Although...

This is the first book that comprehensively analyses co-patenting in Japan and the U.S., which directly signifies collaborations between firms and inventors, using the methodology of network science. Network science approaches enable us to analyse the...

One of the key ingredients of success in building internationally competitive industries lies in amassing a sizeable pool of competent suppliers of parts, components and accessories. This monograph examines how in developing countries suppliers of...

This book takes a comprehensive look at Japanese firms engaging in export and foreign direct investment (FDI) and develops new methods and data to investigate the internationalization of firms, which is a focus issue in...

The selected papers included in this proceedings on Malaysia-Japan Academic Scholar Conference (MJASC) 2013, are related to nano-science engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, computer...

Markteintritt und Marktaustritt sind die wichtigsten Bestimmungs­ gründe für die Existenz von Wettbewerbsmärkten. Die neoklassische Theorie fordert, daß im Gleichgewicht kein potentieller Eindringling den Eintritt und keine...

Während der Bearbeitung des Forschungsberichtes über die "Entwicklung des Weltluftverkehrs" ergab sich, daß zahlreiche einzelne Problemkreise aus dem Bereich des Luftverkehrs bzw. der Luftverkehrswirtschaft der ...

This book focuses on the development of multi-variant products using modular product structures and thus addresses the reduction of complexity from a product development perspective. These modular product structures allow for a greater variety of demand...

Today, digital technologies represent an absolute must when it comes to creating new products and factories. However, day-to-day product development and manufacturing engineering operations have still only unlocked roughly fifty percent of the "digital...

Zielsetzung der Gesellschaft für Qualitätswissenschaft e.V. ist es, die Qualitätswissenschaft in Lehre und Forschung zu fördern und den Wissenstransfer in die industrielle Anwendung zu unterstützen. Geschehen soll dies unter anderem durch Pflege des...

This book describes the fundamentals of Supply Chain Management in clear and concise terms. It explains why in the near future real competition is going to be between supply chains and what the consequences will be. Managers and decision-makers will be...

​The subject of this book is supply chain logistics planning optimization under multiple uncertainties, the key issue in supply chain management. Focusing on the strategic-alliance three-level supply chain, the model of supply chain logistics planning...

This book presents the state-of-the-art in quality and reliability engineering from a product life-cycle standpoint. Topics in reliability include reliability models, life data analysis and modeling, design for reliability as well as accelerated life...

Collaboration in highly distributed organizations of people, robots, and autonomous systems is and must be revolutionized by engineering augmentation. The aim is to augment humans' abilities at work and, through this augmentation, improve organizations'...

The competitiveness of firms, regions and countries greatly depends on the generation, dissemination and application of new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination processes...

This volume describes how frontier efficiency methodologies such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and other techniques such as multi-criteria decision making can help service industries to improve their performance by providing a ranking of...

Relevante Unterschiede zwischen Wachstumsunternehmen und etablierten Unternehmen.- Wesentliche Grundlagen und Elemente von Lean Startup.- Ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer Expertenbefragung.- Handlungsempfehlungen für die Anwendung von Lean...

Diese Veröffentlichung thematisiert Implikationen von Industrie 4.0 für den Mittelstand unter Einbezug aktueller empirischer Erkenntnisse. Bislang gibt es nur wenige konkrete Beispiele für Industrie 4.0 in deutschen Unternehmen, die sich den...

Der Markt fordert von Unternehmen immer schneller neue Produkte mit hoher Qualität zu niedrigen Preisen - eine Entwicklung, die sich weiter intensivieren wird. Wie kann Wertschöpfung unter diesen Bedingungen gelingen? Bisherige Strategie- und...

Marc Marheineke explores the phenomenon of boundary objects in the process of virtual collaboration. Virtual collaboration is an interactive act that connects jointly and voluntarily collaborating individuals that are electronically linked and he...

Waldemar Kremser geht davon aus, dass die zunehmende Fokussierung der Routinenforschung auf die Einzelroutine die Essenz von Organisationen, die Formen und Folgen von Arbeitsteilung, verpasst. Er zeigt, dass eine einzelne Routine weder in Bezug auf ihre...

Was Sie in diesem essential finden können.- Einleitung.- 3D-Druck: Überblick über Technologie, Anwendungen, Chancen und Grenzen.- Erkenntnisstand und Forschungslücken.- Vorgehensmodell für Entscheidung & Implementierung...

Dieses Buch richtet sich vor allem an Unternehmen, die Nachholbedarf in ihrer Digitalisierungsstrategie oder einen hohen Aufwand der ungewollten Improvisation und des „Firefighting" haben. Leitthema ist die Dynamik der Sofortgesellschaft, die durch die...

Matthias Bertram aims to develop a deeper understanding of software customization and its strategic role for software product management. Drawing on the conceptual foundation of the resource-based view of the firm, such as resources, capabilities, and...

Joachim Jan Thraen uses insights from history to provide a fresh perspective on China's potential transition towards a global innovation leader. He applies historical evidence from countries like the United States, Germany, and Japan in the 19th and 20th...

Was Sie in diesem essential finden können.- Kontext und Risiko-Analyse.- Der Umgang mit den Bedrohungen entlang der Supply Chain.- Fazit.- Was Sie aus diesem essential mitnehmen können.

This volume presents state-of-the-art models, algorithms, and applications of quantitative methods in management and economics. The papers are clustered into four parts, focusing on optimization issues, applications of Operations Research in production...

This work aims to increase the service level and to reduce the inventory costs by combining the forecast and inventory model into one consistent forecast-based inventory model. This new model is based on the prediction of the future probability...

Andreas Bärmann develops novel approaches for the solution of network design problems as they arise in various contexts of applied optimization. At the example of an optimal expansion of the German railway network until 2030, the author derives a...

Christian Schwarzkopf has developed a new more holistic entrepreneurial ecosystem on a national level and has analyzed as well as compared the fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship in Germany and the USA in order to derive the key elements for...

Till Albert presents amachine learning based approach to harnessing information contained in big datafrom different media sources such as patents, scientific publications, or theinternet. He shows how this information can be used for automated...

Micha Hirschinger emphasizes the importance of foresight on logisticsand institutions in particular for effective decision making as distinctresearch in this context is limited. He applies a systematic and transferablemulti-method approach based on...

Jörg Sesselmann presents the first comprehensive guide to customer integration from a branding perspective. The author establishes a classification of the vast landscape of co-creation, co-design, co-production, interactive value creation and mass...

Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from...

Based on multiple surveys, the present book gives valuable insights into the factors driving Social Network Site usage behavior for both practitioners and academics. By empirically evaluating multiple influence factors, it contributes to the current body...

Based on interviews with R&D managers and a survey amongst R&D employees, Verena Nedon shows that perceived social pressure has an immense impact on R&D employees working in OI-projects. Employees' attitude (regardless of whether positive or...