Management Science

This book provides important guidelines for the digital transformation process and shows how established companies in particular can use digitization for their strategic further development. It highlights developments in IT and data management, supported...

Over two million people worldwide die every year due to work-related accidents and illness, which corresponds to over 6000 deaths every day (International Labour Organisation, 2020). Globally, there are about 340 million occupational accidents and 160...

Toxic organizational cultures and leadership have led to major reputational failures, with the greatest impact felt by the people who dedicate their careers to working for these organizations. And yet organizations do not become toxic overnight. They do...

Every global crisis highlights the strategic importance of industrial and non-profit supply chains for society. In terms of coping with unforeseen and unpredictable events, supply chain resilience enables the parties and networks involved to stay...

"A vivid, compelling and highly readable insight into building world-leading teams and organizations." - Dr Catherine Raines, Chief Executive, UK Trade & Investment The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers...

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into 'activities', or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800316881Author Jennifer BryanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories defy their legends. In Leaders, retired four-star general Stan McChrystal explores what leadership really means, debunking the...

Modern warehouses are capitalizing on cutting-edge technologies, new operating models and innovative practices to maximize their role in the wider supply chain. Understand how to successfully manage these warehouses with this bestselling guide. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905823710Author Steve GlowinkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Ecademy PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 333gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

In a fast-paced and innovative world, traditional training methods can no longer be relied on to improve performance, engagement or promote behavioural change. Experience-based learning, in which the experience is central to the learning process, is more...

Presents the basic approaches underlying Stafford Beer's thinking since the publication of his first book in 1959. Deals with a philosophy of science relevant to management and particularly with the nature of models. Demonstrates all major points through...

"Gil Crosby has accomplished what most of us in the world of applied behavioral science, in general, and OD and T-Group training, in particular, have not-making the theoretical father of our work accessible. Thus, this book is a gift and with it we can...

By the bestselling author of The One Minute Manager, a business parable that teaches organizations to cope successfully with change. Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives - often big, expensive ones - designed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782958776510Author Robertson Hunter StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Rhs ConsultingPublisher Rhs ConsultingWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of...

Management is a fragmented and interdisciplinary area of study, with a lot of academic branches. Willman argues this tree is narrower at its roots, and these roots lie primarily in social science. Key to the purpose of the book is to present management...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591847120Author Richard SheridanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 246g

New Drugs, Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford. Today, this debate is impassioned but sterile. One side calls for price controls, discounting their impact on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627340304Author Brian Brockhoff Mark ThienesFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal Publishers

Strategic Thinking: A Step-by-Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership, now in its third edition, takes you step by step through sound strategic thinking by setting out the questions to ask. In the process of answering these questions and thinking...

During the last decade, platform businesses such as Uber, Airbnb, Amazon and eBay have been taking over the world. In almost every sector, traditional businesses are under attack from digital disrupters that are effectively harnessing the power of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049337Author Carliss Y. BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 590Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough...

Chapter 5: Customers, Products, Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Close Customer Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Customer Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

'An adventure into the very human science of making breakthroughs together.' - Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Power of HabitThe best groups are more than the sum of their parts - but why does teamwork so often fail to...

Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant. But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies. In narrating his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937120057Author Ichak Kalderon, Adizes Ph.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Adizes InstitutePublisher Adizes InstituteWeight(grams)...

Advanced Negotiation Techniques provides a wealth of material in a winning combination of practical experience and good research to give you a series of tools, techniques, and real-life examples to help you achieve your negotiation objectives. For 25...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820804Author Chris AvoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

Work is complicated: It can be fulfilling and exciting, or disappointing and disruptive. We spend most of our adult lives at work; it shapes our identities and provides a context for our creativity and talents. It can be the source of great pleasure -...

A Breakthrough Introduction to The Next Phase of the Digital Age In Trivergence, Bob Tapscott, writer, speaker, complex system designer, and former CIO introduces an exciting new concept in explaining how the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060516406Author James C. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Fourteen organisations all over the world tell the stories of how Solutions Focus has helped them to change - and show you many ways to find what works in the workplace. This book is a massive fund of experience and know-how about keeping organisational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935056188Author Jay W ForresterFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint System Dynamics SocietyPublisher System Dynamics SocietyWeight(grams)...

For the want-to-be entrepreneur thinking about taking the leap, the boot-strapped entrepreneur trying to energize a business three or four years in, and the venture-backed entrepreneur trying to scale, Why Startups Fail shows you the key mistakes new...

Despite recent optimism and global initiatives, the implementation of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with less than a third of global companies having developed a clear business case for their approach to sustainability...

Since the first edition of this book published, Bayesian networks have become even more important for applications in a vast array of fields. This second edition includes new material on influence diagrams, learning from data, value of information,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801968990Author David W. MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Chilton Book CompanyPublisher Chilton Book CompanyWeight(grams) 320g

Now in its fifth edition, Business Research offers students a practical, hands-on guide throughout the research process, from literature review to writing up the results. Accessible and clear, this much loved textbook provides the tools needed to embark...