A focus on sustainable supply chains and green logistics

In a fast moving world the transportation of goods is expected to be more efficient than ever before. This compendia features papers that address key themes in green logistics such as benchmarking and energy efficiency and includes highly cited papers from international contributors such as Alan ...

Advancing methodological thought and practice

The 12th edition of Research Methodology in Strategy and Management explores cutting-edge methodological approaches to the study of organizations, managers, and strategy, and provides ‘how to’ guides to apply these approaches.

Ai in fashion industry

AI in Fashion Industry discusses recent developments in fashion forecasting, developing a 'framework of AI-based fashion forecasting' and validates the framework with a qualitative case study of the world's first fashion intelligence company based in Bengaluru, India.

Aligned

Product management naturally incorporates empathy, psychology, and thinking outside the box in pursuit of the best design for products. But how often do you apply those same skills to your relationships with people in your company? By breaking the art of stakeholder management into simple lesso...

Applications of management science

Volume 20 of Applications of Management Science focuses on the application of management science methodologies, data envelopment analysis and multi-criteria decision making.

Building ai-powered products

Counterfeiting and fraud in supply chains

Counterfeiting and Fraud in Supply Chains explains the reasons behind the popularity of counterfeiting and fraud among both consumers and companies, a systematic and holistic overview and critical examination of the situations that have caused an increasing trend of those criminal activities.

Developments in sustainable manufacturing management

The book examines Sustainable Industrial Development (SID) and Inclusive Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) initiatives, and how these can contribute to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

Escaping the build trap

Global production

Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few international trade transactions today are based on the exchange of finished goods; rather, the majority of transactions...

Impact of industry 4.0 on supply chain sustainability

Scholars around the world examine a range of Industry 4.0 factors and their impact on improving the sustainability of global supply chains in Impact of Industry 4.0 on Supply Chain Sustainability. The findings are useful for researchers and practitioners in a range of fields and roles looking to ...

Informal manufacturing and environmental sustainability

The chapters here emerge against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving global landscape, where the informal sector plays a pivotal role in employment, income generation, and economic development, particularly in developing and emerging countries.

Integrating 4ir and 5ir technologies for digital business innovation

Integrating 4IR and 5IR Technologies for Digital Business Innovation provides an understanding of the characteristics and business operations and management implications associated with Industry 4.0 and 5.0 technologies such as AI, IoT and Big Data.

Intelligent agriculture

Intelligent Agriculture presents a real case study on the development of a state-of-the-art technology, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), which intends to address fundamental and very current challenges in the agriculture sector using benchmark analysis of the WSN against other similar technolog...

Joy

Successful relationships with publics are based on how people are treated, so public relations should help foster happiness and joy and by that improve organisational success and the well-being of people. This book explores how public relations contributes to the well-being of its publics and pre...

Management fundamentals

This book is a succinct handbook of the essentials of management for current and future practitioners. Leadership experts Steven Cohen and William Eimicke concisely explain management best practices, aiming to equip managers with the tools of the trade and prepare them to tackle decision making.

Participation based intelligent manufacturing

Presenting ready-to-use, innovative solutions based on scientific evidence, Birutė Mockevičienė has designed this decade’s essential guide for navigating, streamlining and revitalising the industrial field.

Persistence and vigilance

This accounting history study follows the major chronological events in the first 50 years of the Ford Motor Company from the perspective of accounting procedures and financial reporting. Several key business executives are profiled, along with their contributions to the implementation and mainte...

Proximity

Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff provide an indispensable guide to the Proximity revolution, showing how it’s transforming every industry—and our lives.

Resource allocation problems in supply chains

Resource Allocation is the utilization of available resources in the system. This book focuses on development of models for 6 new, complex classes of RA problems in Supply Chain networks, focusing on bi-objectives, dynamic input data, and multiple performance measure based allocation and integrat...

Strategy and managed decline

Why do organisations decline, and what happens when they do? Strategy and Managed Decline: London Transport 1948-87 is a historical case study looking at how London Transport, a world beater in 1948, declined from being an international exemplar to dilapidation in 30 years.

Transformation of supply chain ecosystems

Transformation of Supply Chain Ecosystems: Technological innovations and collaborations brings together the contributions from the experts in designing and implementing supply chain systems, like inventory and transport management, warehouse operations, analysing customer preferences, and supply ...

Understanding products as services

Understanding Products as Services serves as an indispensable guide for navigating the hybrid economy, enabling you to leverage the integration of hardware and software, and propel your organization to the forefront of innovation and success.