Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Operations Management - Operations Management

Informationen zum Autor Editor in Chief Cary L. Cooper is based at Lancaster University as Professor of Organizational Psychology. He is the author of over 80 books, is past editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Founding President of the British Academy of Management. Advisory Editors Chris Argyris is James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. William Haynes Starbuck is Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Volume Editors Nigel Slack is the Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Service and Support Management at Cambridge University and Professor of Operations Strategy at Warwick Business School. He is the author of many publications in the Operations Management area, including the market leading text, Operations Management (Fourth Edition, 2004) with Stuart Chambers and Robert Johnston, which has been translated into several languages. Michael Lewis is Professor of Operations and Supply Management at Bath University. He has published widely in the Operations Management and Strategy areas, including the four-volume series of edited papers Operations Management: Critical Perspectives (2003). Klappentext Now 256 full entries; All entries revised and bibliographies significantly up-dated and extended; 93 new entries across a wide range of areas * in particular more on service, strategy, technology and innovation but beefing up core entries (e.g. newsvendor model). New Authors: 31 new authors from UK, Europe and North America (inc. Harvard and Georgetown), now more than 50 contributors Zusammenfassung Contains over 250 entries in operations management. This book features 93 entries across a wide range of areas! including: service! strategy! technology and innovation. It expands on core entries such as the newsvendor model. It contains entries from 31 worldwide authors! featuring more than 50 international contributors in total. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. About the Editors. List of Contributors. Dictionary Entries A-Z. Index. ...

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• Authors: Lewis M, Lewis M., Slack, N Slack, Nigel (University of Warwick) Lewis Slack, Nigel Lewis Slack, Prof. Nigel Lewis Slack
• Assisted by: Michael Lewis (Editor), Nigel Slack (Editor), Slack Nigel (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2006
• EAN: 9781405110969
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-1096-9
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Blackwell Encyclopedia of Mana; Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management; The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; REFERENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Operations Research, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control, Operational research, Production & quality control management, Encyclopaedias and reference works, Encyclopaedias & Reference Works, Production and quality control management