Books on Business & Economics > Industrial Management

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Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
By Henry William Chesbrough , John Seely Brown [Paperback 2006]
695 570 (18% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days This collection investigates the phenomenon of "Open Innovation," in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. The book's contributors link the practice of innovation to the established body of innovation rsearch, showing what's new and what's familiar in the process. Looking in depth... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2003
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Strategy and the Business Landscape, 2/e
By Pankaj Ghemawat [Paperback, 2nd Edition]
285 242 (15% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days Audience: MBA and Executive MBA strategy courses Approach: Pankaj Ghemawat, in collaboration with Bruno Cassiman, David Collis and Jan Rivkin, has prepared the second edition of an introductory strategy textbook that adopts a value-focused, firm-centered perspective on strategy. The book is meant to be rigorous in its research base, pragmatic... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2009, 3rd Edition Paperback 2009 Paperback, 1st Edition Paperback 2006, 2nd Edition
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Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed
By Sudhir Kumar , Shagun Mehrotra , Manmohan Singh [Hardcover 2009]
495 406 (18% OFF)
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The Dynamic Workplace: Present Structure and Future Redesign
By Seth Allcorn [Hardcover 2003]
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Available. The complexity and dynamism of organizations make them difficult to understand and manage. This book presents the workings and designs of organizations and identifies the types of problems encountered by organizational workers. Allcorn provides an essential focus on dynamic workplace theory, questioning the current and future value of today's bureaucratic,... more
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The Knowing Organization: How Organizations Use Information to Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions
By Chun Wei Choo [Paperback 1998]
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Available. The Knowing Organization is the first text to look at how organizations behave as information-seeking, information-creating, and information-using communities, and offers models of how organizations behave and how information participates in that behavior. The Knowing Organization is the first text that links the broad areas of organizational behavior and information... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 1998 Paperback 2005, 2nd Edition
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Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed
By Sudhir Kumar , Shagun Mehrotra , Manmohan Singh [Hardcover 2009]
495 406 (18% OFF)
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Innovative Lean
By Andy Brophy , John Bicheno [Paperback 2010]
1,286
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days Without effective idea management, a Lean program will founder. Brophy and Bicheno bring together the best current thinking on idea management interlinked with Lean thinking on flow, continuous improvement, surfacing issues, and problem solving.... more
8.

Do Lunch or Be Lunch
By Howard H Stevenson , Jeffrey L Cruikshank [Hardcover 1997]
1,407 1,295 (8% OFF)
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days People join organizations to bring about a desired future. But to succeed, they must be able to predict the behavior of those around them. By the same token, they must make themselves predictable. It's mutual predictability that makes for successful organizations. Passionate, down-to-earth, and highly readable, "Do Lunch or Be... more
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Bankruptcy to Billions Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed How the Indian Railways Transformed
By Sudhir Kumar , Shagun Mehrotra [Paperback 2011]
325 263 (19% OFF)
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Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany
By Mary O Sullivan [Paperback 2001]
3,644 2,624 (28% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days In this highly original book, Mary O'Sullivan provides a critical analysis of the theoretical foundations for the idea that corporations should be run to maximize shareholder value and for the alternative perspective that corporations should be run in the interests of stakeholders. She embeds her arguments on the relation between... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2000
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Effecting a Quality Change: An Engineering Approach
By S W Field , K G Swift [Paperback 1996]
2,550 1,836 (28% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the fundamental ingredients required to introduce an improvement in quality. Concise and easy to read, the theory is backed up by numerous industrial experiences,... more
Other Editions: Paperback 1996
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Essence of Creativity: A Guide to Tackling Difficult Problems
By Steven H Kim [Hardbound 1990]
5,048 3,634 (28% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days Challenging problems both attract and repel us. They frustrate us, accelerate our pulses, cause ulcers, and perhaps even curtail our lifespans. On the other hand, the knotty problems of life offer us food for thought, sustaining our creativity, and adding emotional spice to the human experience. We encounter difficult tasks... more
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Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: A Compendium of Best Practice, Advice and Case Studies from Leading Thinkers, Commentators and Practitione
By Paul Sloane [Paperback 2011]
495 391 (21% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days This book targets business readers who want to learn how to improve innovation in their organizations. Bringing together twenty leading thinkers, commentators, and practitioners, it explains how and why to look outside one's organization to find innovative products and services, and it shows how to use those innovations to advance... more
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Institutions, Production, and Working Life
By Geoffrey Wood , Philip James [Paperback 2007]
3,097 2,230 (28% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days What is the link between working life and the nature of production on the one hand, and the changing organization of the firms and institutions in which work and production take place? In this book leading socio-economic theorists analyze how these have changed over the last two decades.... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2007
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Learning Work: A Critical Pedagogy of Work Education
By Roger I Simon , Don Dippo , Arleen Schenke [Paperback 1991]
1,689 1,216 (28% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days With increasing belief by educators that education should include some type of vocational or career-related training, concerns have arisen over just how such programs can be effectively implemented to meet the needs of the teachers, students, and community groups. Teachers and community-based educators have questioned how work education may provide... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 1991
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Managerial Economics
By Ivan Png , Dale Lehman [Paperback 2007, 3rd Edition]
5,694 4,953 (13% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days This highly readable, non-technical introduction to theessential microeconomic principles is perfect for business managers. The new edition retains its global focus and economic rigor. Written for managers rather than economists New coverage of oligopoly, time value of money, behavioral economics, experience curve, R&D strategy, and more Uses mathematics only where... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2008, 3rd Edition
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Manufacturing Engineering Processes
By Leo Alting , Alting [Hardcover 1993, 2nd Edition]
5,465 3,935 (28% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days Responding to the need for an integrated approach in manufacturing engineering oriented toward practical problem solving, this updated second edition describes a process morphology based on fundamental elements that can be applied to all manufacturing methods - providing a framework for classifying processes into major families with a common theoretical... more
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Policies for Cleaner Technology: A New Agenda for Government and Industry
By Tony Professor Of Environment , Graham Spinardi , Robin Williams [Paperback 1999]
595 476 (20% OFF)
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Telecom Convergence, 2/E
By Steven Shepard [Paperback 2002, 2nd Edition]
1,971 1,419 (28% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days HOW TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES FEATURING ITS OWN REGULARLY UPDATED WEBSITE, "TELECOM CONVERGENCE" IS THE ONLY SURVIVAL MANUAL YOU NEED FOR THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF TELECOM In this new edition of "Telecommunications Convergence," globally recognized telecom guru Steven Shepard gives you a life raft for... more
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World Class Manufacturing Casebook: Implementing JIT and TQC
By Richard J Schonberger [Paperback 1995]
1,125 810 (28% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days This casebook contains 26 cases that let students of WCM concepts solve actual JIT and TQC implementation problems in a wide variety of manufacturing and corporate settings. This casebook, designed as a companion volume to Richard J. Schonberger's World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity Applied, contains 26 cases that... more