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Operation management: theory and practice, 2nd edition
B Mahadevan
Operations Management: Theory and Practice aims to introduce the key concepts of production and operations management to students and to help them develop a sound conceptual understanding of the subject by adopting a practical approach to address various topics relevant to operations management. This book presents an increased coverage of the service sector, includes more topics, has reorganized chapter content, and provides more learning tools||“Operations Management: Theory and Practice” by B Mahadevan is a new book on the subject and a part of ongoing effort by the Indian Academic community to explain key operations management (OM) concepts in the Indian context. As the author says in the preface that “While several books on the subject by international authors are available, students find it difficult to relate to examples used in them… The basic motivation for the book… by preserving all the salient features one normally finds in the international books and at the same time populate the book with contextually relevant examples”. The key tool used by the author to achieve this objective is to use “Ideas at Work”. They are mostly short anecdotes drawn from the business press, leading Indian management journals and the author’s own research. This is an important contribution in bringing Indian context into OM teaching in the classroom and the author should be congratulated for that.
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Intelligent IT-offshoring to India: roadmaps for emerging business landscapes
Wolfgang Messner
Enables companies to discuss and organize offshoring IT work to India and the opportunity to industrialize the IT delivery chain allowing countering cost pressures. Offshoring is considered as a lifecycle and the book provides a practical framework for assessing the offshore readiness and conducting a lean provider selection process.
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Principles of inventory control: when you are down to four order more
John A Muckstadt and Amar Sapra
Inventories are prevalent everywhere in the commercial world, whether it be in retail stores, manufacturing facilities, government stockpile material, Federal Reserve banks, or even your own household. This textbook examines basic mathematical techniques used to sufficiently manage inventories by using various computational methods and mathematical models. Such models discussed include: EOQ model and extensions, power-of-two models, single and multi-period models, probabilistic lot sizing models, multi-echelon stochastic models, Laplace and Normal demand models, exact Poisson model, and many more. Principles of Inventory Management begins with an introductory chapter in which the basics of inventory systems and mathematical assumptions for all models are grouped together. The text is presented in a way such that each section can be read independently, and so the order in which the reader approaches the book can be inconsequential. It contains both deterministic and stochastic models along with algorithms that can be employed to find solutions to a variety of inventory control problems. Key topics include: * Economic order quantity (EOQ) model * Power-of-two policies * Dynamic lot sizing * Single and multi-period stochastic models * Echelon-based approaches * Multi-echelon systems * Single and multi-item models With exercises at the end of each chapter and a clear, systematic exposition, this textbook will appeal to advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students in operations research, industrial engineering, and quantitative MBA programs. It also serves as a reference for professionals in both industry and government worlds. The prerequisite courses include introductory optimization methods, probability theory (non-measure theoretic), and stochastic processes.
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Public private partnerships, 1st edition
G Ramesh, Vishnuprasad Nagadevara, Gopal Naik, and Anil B Suraj
The collection of papers brings out the complexities in PPP in terms of types, conceptualization, structure, institutions, and financing. It covers a broad sweep ranging from infrastructure to services and utilities; and from global to Indian states. The methodology is primarily empirical but the thrust is on conceptualization of PPP in its various forms and frameworks. PPP is still a practitioner’s field but is growing in size and significance; and as a solution to failures of public system and the consequent privatization. It is a major attraction to policy makers and funding agencies given its middle-of-the-road approach. It is likely to gain currency, but it is important that we get deeper understandings of this form before we place more faith in this. The papers in this book, selected from a conference on PPP held at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in 2008, raise several important conceptual issues and seek to address some of them.
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Urban infrastructure and governance, 1st edition
G Ramesh, Vishnuprasad Nagadevara, Gopal Naik, and Anil B Suraj
The book contains a selection of papers on urban governance in its multiple perspectives. It has evolved from the presentations made at the Third International Conference on Public Policy and Management held in 2008.The topics are grouped into several themes: Urban Plan and Governance, Urban Governance through Partnership and Participation, and Financing Urban Infrastructure. With several examples from developing nations, the book dwells into the practical and managerial aspects of urban planning, partnerships, participation, financial mobilization and effective governance. One of the highlights of the book is that it looks at financial mobilization as a strategy for governance and how the financial system in itself can be an instrument of governance.
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Macroeconomic policy environment: an analytical guide for managers, 2nd edition
Shyamal Roy
Macroeconomic Policy Environment is meant for professional managers, both in public and private sectors, who have little or no background in economics, but have to face, on a regular basis, the challenges posed by a rapidly changing macroeconomic policy environment. The book attempts to provide an understanding of how macroeconomic policies work and, in turn, how they impact the business environment. It adopts a uniquely practical approach to explain various aspects by deliberately avoiding jargon, diagrams and equations. Instead, a 'story' mode has been in-built for simplifying concepts. The second edition has been updated with empirical data as recent as 2009-2010. Additionally: Topics like global economic and financial meltdown, the Union budget 2010-11, crisis in Greece have been discussed in detail. IS-LM model has been added. Changes and new frameworks in macroeconomics have been discussed.
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Consumer behavior, 10th edition
Leon G Schiffman, Leslie Lazar Kanuk, S Ramesh Kumar, and Joseph Wisenblit
Some of the unique features of the book are: • New and extensive coverage on the use of new media in creating more effective targeting strategies and customized promotional messages • New discussions on the role of consumer behaviour in advancing marketers’ social responsibility and ethics • Greater emphasis on applying the knowledge of consumer behaviour in the development of marketing strategies • Enhanced coverage of the global dimensions of consumer behaviour throughout the book • Learning objectives are stated at the beginning of each chapter and identified at the start of the corresponding sections in each chapter • Many of the cases in this edition are brand new, with two cases appearing at the end of each chapter Revised exercises focus on critical thinking and the application of material to real world situations. Belonging to the domain of Marketing, Professor Ramesh Kumar joined IIMB in 1995. His key areas of interests include exploring the application of marketing/consumer behaviour concepts in the Indian context. His specific research interests include branding-consumer-behaviour interface, relationship marketing and combining online and offline marketing strategies.
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Gender equity in health: the shifting frontiers of evidence and action
Gita Sen and Ostlin Piroska
This volume brings together experts from a variety of disciplines such as medicine, biology, sociology, epidemiology, anthropology, economics and political science; who focus on three areas: health disparities and inequity due to gender, the specific problems women face in meeting the highest attainable standards of health, and the policies and actionsthat can address them. Highlighting the importance of intersecting social hierarchies (e.g. gender, class and ethnicity) for understanding health inequities and their implications for health policy, contributors detail and recommend policy approaches and agendas that incorporate, but go beyond commonly acknowledged issues relating to women’s health and gender equity in health.
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International finance: a business perspective
Prakash G Apte
The global financial landscape is changing fast with the integration of financial markets and mind-boggling technological advances. Economic events, government policies, and investor sentiments in any part of the world impact the financial markets across the world, exposing most businesses to market fluctuations. This book, an updated and enlarged edition of 'International Finance: A Business Perspective', equips corporate treasurers and finance managers with the conceptual understanding of global financial markets, instruments and products. It enables them to analyze market opportunities and associated financial risks, and also familiarizes them with the available funding avenues.
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External capital flows and welfare in developing countries
Anubha Dhasmana
This book studies the welfare effects of external capital flows in small open developing countries with special emphasis on primary commodity export dependent countries. Welfare cost of macroeconomic volatility in the developing countries is several times larger than that in the developed countries. Further, most of this macroeconomic volatility is a result of exogenous shocks such as terms of trade or world price changes. External capital flows (coming largely from official creditors in the case of developing countries)have the potential to reduce these fluctuations. Focusing in particular on aid flows and external debt, I find that indexing these flows to external shocks can significantly improve the welfare outcome in developing countries.
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Options, futures and other derivatives, 7th edition
John C Hull and Sankarshan Basu
Designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives is the top seller among both the academic audience and derivative practitioners around the world. Building on this standard of excellence with examples and d
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