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Operations Research: Methods, Models, and Applications
Edited by Jay E. Aronson and Stanley Zionts Under the Auspices of Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial Administration ISBN: 1-59311-266-1. 400 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 Drawn from a conference honoring Gerald L. Thompson, the pioneer of operations research, this volume brings together some of the latest writings of major figures in the field. |
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Managing Complexity in Organizations: A View in Many Directions
Edited by Michael R. Lissack and Hugh P. Gunz ISBN: 1-59311-267-X. 424 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 Lissack and Gunz have gathered many of the leading practitioners from the science of complexity and its emerging applications to management--to give us an up-to-date, comprehensive understanding of this important new field and how it can change the way we think about the organizations. Reviews: "A collection of 18 insightful, conceptual papers written by leading practitioners from the science of complexity and its applications to management, offering a new framework for understanding organization....Absorbing and highly informative, Highly recommended." ~ Stern's Management Review/Stern's Sourcefinder |
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The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China
Edited by Yuko Arayama and Panos Mourdoukoutas ISBN: 1-59311-268-8. 208 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 In this challenging, provocative and readable study, Arayama and Mourdoukoutas lay out the issues in accounting vs. risk management in Japanese banking. It is an essential resource for academicians and policymakers in business, government, and international finance and investment. |
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Postmodern Management: The Emerging Partnership Between Employees and Stockholders
Edited by William McDonald Wallace ISBN: 1-59311-269-6. 232 pages. List Price: $39.95 According to a postmodern management model, a partnership between employees and stockholders would lead to more productive work by relating pay to corporate performance and by encouraging more flexible and cooperative teamwork. Wallace provides a workable guideline to ease the transition from the bureaucratic form of structure to postmodern partnership. Reviews: "The study ranges across economic history and theory, assimilating such contemporary business practices as teamwork and total quality management. While fairly general, it offers a summary review of some current ideas about business management. Suitable for comprehensive business collections serving general readers and undergraduate students." ~ Choice |
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Managing in a Team Environment
Edited by John Robert Dew ISBN: 1-59311-270-X. 176 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 This book is a unique combination of field research, academic studies, case study data, and practices from one of America's best companies. Designed to be a practical guide for managers, Managing in a Team Environment gives the reader a comprehensive overview of the practice, culture, and methods for functioning in a team environment. The book helps engender the necessary knowledge and skills to make the transition to leading teams. It also makes clear the distinction between hierarchical and team environments. Tools for team-centered planning, work control, meetings, and decision making are presented in detail. |
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Fundamentals of Economics for Environmental Managers
Edited by William F. Barron, Robert D. Perlack and John J. Boland ISBN: 1-59311-272-6. 240 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 Endorsement From William K. Reilly, Former Administrator (1988-1992) of The United States Environmental Protection Agency: "Environmental managers often find economics mystifying. Barron demystifies it and illuminates modern regulatory innovations like pollution rights trading, voluntary programs, and market incentives." Endorsement From Jeremy J. Warford, Visiting Professor, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment - University College, England: "This book helps to fill a large and growing gap in the literature. Practitioners will find from it that economic analysis has an enormous amount to contribute to the resolution of environmental problems...the authors succeed in striking the right balance between theoretical correctness and commonsense. This rare event should make this book required reading for government and developmental agency officials, industry leaders and members of the general public seriously concerned about the difficult choices to be made in reconciling environmental, economic and social objectives in the quest for 'sustainable development." Endorsement From Milton Russell, Senior Fellow, Joint Institute for Energy and Environment - University of Tennessee: "This book moves economics from the abstruse and esoteric to what it is in the hands of a skilled practitioner; a way of thinking and a set of tools for helping solve real environmental problems when information is limited, time is short and the stakes are high." Endorsement From Robert K. Davis, Former Head of the Economics Staff, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior: "It has long been my concern as a teacher and a policy analyst that environmental managers are not equipped for, or even open to dealing with the economic complexities of environmental policy. Now we have a volume that makes it possible for them to understand the common sense of environmental economics and to obtain sound advice on the application of economics to environmental problems. Endorsement From David Glover, Director of the Economy and Environmental Program for South East Asia, Singapore: "Practical and eminently readable, this book shows how economic concepts can help in making decisions about the environment. Highly recommended." |
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The Practice of Facilitation: Managing Group Process and Solving Problems
Edited by Harry Webne-Behrman ISBN: 1-59311-273-4. 232 pages, figures, glossary. List Price: $39.95 A practical guide for those who facilitate group interactions within any public or private organization, this book gives specific strategies for conducting effective meetings, resolving conflicts within a group, and building consensus among group members and managing the work of groups over time. |
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The Practice of Workplace Participation: Management-Employee Relations at Three Participatory Firms
Edited by S. Lance Denning ISBN: 1-59311-274-2. 192 pages, questionnaire. List Price: $39.95 Through an examination of workplace participation, theoretical literature, and three case studies of participatory firms, Denning clarifies the difficult relationships between management and workers as both grapple with the transition toward greater employee decision-making power. |
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Managing in a Five Dimension Economy: Ven Matrix Architectures for New Organizations
Edited by G. D. Venerable ISBN: 1-59311-275-0. 304 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 This volume offers a unique approach to understanding and managing today's organizations as they are governed by the mathematical and scientific systems that underlie evolutionary biology. Reviews: "...presents a highly unique conceptualization of today's economy and the architecture of organizations required for dealing with its uncertainty and change....Excellent." ~ Stern's Management Review/Stern's Sourcefinder |
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Business Strategy Formulation: Theory, Process and the Intellectual Revolution
Edited by Anthony W. Ulwick ISBN: 1-59311-276-9. 224 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 With this book, Ulwick introduces a strategy formulation theory and process that allows firms to create strategies that consistently produce breakthrough results. The application of advanced modeling and pattern detection techniques commonly reserved for physics and the behavioral sciences is used in both the design of the theory and in the process it initiates; its application can result in strategies and solutions that deliver up to ten times more value than those created with traditional methods. Reviews: "Ulwick introduces a strategy formulation theory and process that allows firms to create strategies that consistently produce breakthrough results." ~ Creative Magazine "Presents a wealth of top-notch thinking. Highly recommended." ~ Stern's Management Review/Stern's Sourcefinder |
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Transforming The Character of Public Organizations: Techniques for Change Agents
Edited by A. Carol Rusaw ISBN: 1-59311-277-7. 264 pages, figures. List Price: $39.95 In this unusual, thoughtful, and ultimately practical book, Dr. Rusaw addresses why and how organizational change agents cannot stand apart from the problems, issues, and concerns raised by their constituents, but must actively participate in creating change. |
