Author: Anne Elizabeth ParmigianiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business logistics
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Concurrent Sourcing
Author: Anne Elizabeth ParmigianiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business logistics
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Handbook of Public Administration
Author: W. Bartley HildrethPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1498750044
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Public administration as a field of study finds itself in the middle of a fluid environment. The very reach and complexity of public administration has been easy to take for granted, easy to attack, and difficult to explain, particularly in the soundbite and Twitter-snipe media environment. Not only has the context for the discipline changed, but the institutions of public administration have adapted and innovated to deliver services to the public and serve those in power while becoming increasingly complex themselves. Has public administration evolved? And what new lines of research are critical for effective policy and delivery of programs and public services while preserving foundational principles such as the rule of law and expert institutions? This Handbook of Public Administration sheds light for new researchers, doctoral students, scholars, and practitioners interested in probing modern public administration’s role in solving major challenges facing nations and the world. This fourth edition recognizes that the scholarship of public administration must reflect the diverse influence of an international orientation, embracing public administration issues and practices in governance systems around the world, and illustrating just how practice can vary across jurisdictions. Every section identifies foundational principles and issues, shows variation in practice across selected jurisdictions, and identifies promising avenues for research. Each chapter revisits enduring themes and tensions, showing how they persist, along with new challenges and opportunities presented by digital technology and contemporary political realities. The Handbook of Public Administration, Fourth Edition provides a compelling introduction to and depiction of the contemporary realities of public administration, and it will inspire new avenues of inquiry for the next generation of public administration researchers.
Concurrent Sourcing
Author: Thomas Bryant CassideyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For decades, financial pressures have led to specialization and outsourcing of critical components to manufacturing processes. In many cases, this has led to dedicated single supply sourcing practices. In the face of disruption risks, as evidenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortcomings of this strategy are felt by firms and the world, leading to reduced profits and economic pain. This dissertation investigates the use of in-house production of components, concurrently with outsourcing, to mitigate supply and demand risks. The first contribution develops and analyzes a mathematical model for concurrent sourcing under all-or-nothing disruption risk. The concurrent sourcing manufacturer's optimal strategy is fully characterized. The results show that consideration of the outsource supplier's optimization problem significantly alters the performance of the manufacturer's optimal strategy. Acknowledging that sourcing decisions are also made by human procurement professionals, the second contribution develops a behavioral model and experiment to analyze decision bias and rationality. The results show that systematic bias in the concurrent sourcing decision problem can be predicted, using only expected profit as the decision maker's stated objective. The third dissertation contribution develops and analyzes a mathematical model for concurrent sourcing under demand and stochastic lead time risk. Specifically, disruptions to a supplier order amount are manifested as a random delivery delay, and the manufacturer may use in-house production of components or an expedited supply option to supplement ordered components. The results show that the manufacturer should make outsource supplier order amounts which target certain service levels, and use the other sources of components to preempt supplier disruptions and supplement supplier deliveries.
Limitations of Concurrent Sourcing and Impediments to Finding Valuable Problems to Solve
Author: Chad Eugene KillebrewSmart Sourcing
Author: A. KakabadsePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403907420
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
With a growing market currently in excess of $150 billion, outsourcing has become a critical boardroom agenda. Meeting this challenge, Andrew and Nada Kakabadse answers key boardroom questions: Q What will be the key areas of outsourcing in the future? A IT and HR! Q What supplier relationships work best: partnerships, joint ventures? A No, the preferred single supplier still provides best service! Q Does well-managed outsourcing make a difference? A Substantially, both strategic and operational! As one of the largest international surveys on outsourcing, Smart Sourcing highlights what it takes to be "outsource ready" and thus become a high performing company. The message is focus on your strengths and know how to use others in order to clearly differentiate!
IT Strategy for Non-IT Managers
Author: Amrit TiwanaPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262341964
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
How non-IT managers can turn IT from an expensive liability into a cost-effective competitive tool. Firms spend more on information technology (IT) than on all other capital assets combined. And yet despite this significant cash outlay, businesses often end up with IT that is uneconomical and strategically feeble. What is missing in many organizations' IT strategy is the business acumen of managers from non-IT departments. This book presents tools for non-IT managers to turn IT from an expensive liability into a cost-effective competitive tool. It equips readers with the concepts and analytical skills necessary to understand IT needs and opportunities from both sides of the business–IT divide. Each chapter opens with a jargon decoder–nontechnical explanations of the key ideas in the chapter—and ends with a checklist summarizing non-IT factors to consider in IT decisions. Chapters cover such topics as infusing competitive firepower into IT strategy; amalgamating software and data for a hard-to-duplicate competitive advantage; making choices that meet today's business needs without handicapping future strategy; establishing who decides what about IT strategies; sourcing IT and its challenges; protecting IT assets against disaster in ways that IT professionals cannot; and recognizing the business potential of emerging technologies. Examples are drawn from large corporations, small businesses, and nonprofits around the world. The book is suitable for use in the MBA core IT course, and is aimed especially at students in professional or executive MBA programs. It will also be a valuable reference for managers.
Strategy
Author: Stewart R CleggPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1526485923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Providing a fresh perspective on strategy from an organizational perspective through a discursive approach featuring key theoretic tenets, this text is also pragmatic and emphasizes the practices of strategy to encourage the reader to be open to a wider set of ideas, with a little more relevance, and with a cooler attitude towards the affordances of the digital world and the possibilities for strategy’s futures. The key areas of Strategy take a critical stance in the new edition, and also include areas less evident in conventional strategy texts such as not-for-profit organizations, process theories, globalization, organizational politics and decision-making as well as the futures of strategy.
Why Do Firms Both Make and Buy? An Investigation of Concurrent Sourcing
Author: Anne E. ParmigianiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Transaction cost economics, neoclassical economics, and the firm capabilities literatures propose theories of the firm that typically depict firm boundaries determined by a dichotomous choice: the make or buy decision. However, none of these theories presents a satisfying explanation as to why firms would concurrently source, i.e., simultaneously make and buy the same good. This study combines these organizational economics theories and compares when firms make, buy, and concurrently source through surveying small manufacturing firms. Support was shown for aspects of all three theories, with evidence indicating that concurrent sourcing is a distinctly different choice, rather existing along a make/buy continuum.
Handbook of Economic Organization
Author: Anna GrandoriPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 178254822X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
ÔThis excellent volume brings together some of the most interesting writings on economic organization. It covers a vast range of topics that fall under the heading of economic organization, and most if not all aspects of a variety of organizational economics and organization theories are presented. Interestingly, this book also extends beyond the more traditional approaches informed by economics and organization theory as it broadens the horizon of the field by including relevant contributions from economic sociology, cognitive psychology, law, and strategic management. Given its breadth and depth, this volume will become one of the standard reference books that will inspire both theoretical and empirical research.Õ Ð John Hagedoorn, Maastricht University, The Netherlands ÔThis important new Handbook of Economic Organization is a highly successful attempt to integrate economic and organization theory. Anna Grandori, who is herself a leading scholar located at the boundaries of economics and organization theory, is to be congratulated on doing a superb job bringing together such a high profile group of internationally acknowledged scholars. Each of the essays in the book are original and contribute to demonstrating the valuable insights that economics can make to our understanding of organization and organizational design. Anna GrandoriÕs introductory and concluding chapters are not only excellent audits of the current state of our knowledge in this field but they also give a strong sense of direction for the possible futures of the discipline. Anna Grandori is not afraid to face head on some of the more philosophical issues relating to ÒorganizationÓ as an object of study and is to be commended for doing so. The economics of organization is a new, exciting and developing field and the essays in this book will help to shape the research agenda that will take this emergent discipline to its next stage.Õ Ð Peter M. Jackson, University of Leicester, UK ÔThis sweeping, comprehensive volume is a signal effort in building bridges between economics and organization theory. With a stellar cast of contributors, it will both inspire and provoke scholars with its grand amibitions, and generate considerable attention and debate. A remarkable effort by Anna Grandori.Õ Ð Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, US ÔAnna Grandori has astutely organized the commissioned chapters of an intellectually diverse set of scholars into an absolutely outstanding contribution that both defines the current state of organizational economics and points the perceptive reader toward an exciting intellectual future. From traditional research areas to the newest topics of interest, the chapters chart the current boundaries of the field. The chapters are filled with gems of insight across several distinct levels of analysis, whether it is a discussion of organizational design, or psychological economics or innovation or the organization as language, the discussions are contemporary, comprehensive and challenging. No serious scholar of organizational economics should be without this book.Õ Ð Richard N. Osborn, Wayne State University, US This comprehensive and groundbreaking Handbook integrates economic and organization theories to help elucidate the design and evolution of economic organization. Economic organization is regarded both as a subject of inquiry and as an emerging disciplinary field in its own right, integrating insights from economics, organization theory, strategy and management, economic sociology and cognitive psychology. The contributors, who share this integrated approach, are distinguished scholars at the productive peak in their fields. Each original, state-of-the art chapter not only addresses foundational issues, but also identifies key issues for future research. This original and wide-ranging Handbook will be a useful and thought-provoking read for academics, students and researchers in the fields of organization, management and economics.
Impacts of Emerging Economies and Firms on International Business
Author: M. MarinovPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137032545
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The internationalization of emerging economies has brought new perspectives to international business development. Focusing on the extensive impact these emerging economies and firms have had, this volume covers the strong players, such as Brazil, Russia, India and China, as well as dynamically developing economies such as Mexico and the Philippines. The contributors review topics such as the role of institutions and resource dependency on outward foreign direct investment from emerging economies, and the role of the global mindset and psychic distance on the performance of subsidiaries of firms originating from emerging economies. It explores new horizons in international business development and addresses challenging perspectives.