This book provides a treatment of operations strategy which is clear and well structured, and seeks to apply some of the ideas of operations strategy to a variety of businesses and organisations.
`This reader is an outstanding piece of work. It captures the essence of operations management by providing an interesting and sometimes provoking set of readings. It also provides an excellent review of the topic.
Porter's configuration-coordination framework studies value chain globalization with two dimensions, namely configuration and coordination. Prahalad and Doz's integration-responsiveness framework assesses activities along the dimensions ...
In addition, this is an important text for final year level undergraduate students studying Operations Strategy or Strategic Operations Management.
Although these two approaches are different in many respects, they have a common theme, where the different levels of an operations strategy are considered as a whole, so that formulation effectively reflects the needs of the different ...
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... Four Practical Revolutions in Management, Portland, OR: Productivity Press. Taylor, F. (1947) The Principles ofScientific Management, New York: Harper and Row (original published in 1911). Tranfield, D., Smith, S., Whittle, S. and ...
Unlike other books, which are primarily casebooks, books of readings, or designed for a non-classroom audience, this book is primarily text, with some cases and numerous real-world examples.
This is a substantial new edition of a successful textbook which continues to have a sensible and 'easy to read' style.
This book focuses on top-down and bottom-up antecedents for employee engagement.