Advances in management engineering. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Cesáreo Hernández, editor.
• Editors: Hernández Iglesias, Cesáreo
• Other Names: New Industrial Organization Workshop
• Contents: Preface; Contents; Contributors; Management Engineering and Organizational Sciences; 1 The Evolution and Classification of Management and Organizational Sciences. A Personal Interpretation; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 An Interpretation of How Management Sciences Advance; 3 Management Engineering and Public Management; 4 A New Proposal to Define the Main Areas of Management Sciences; 4.1 Senior Management Disciplines; 4.2 Operation Management Disciplines; 4.3 Functional Management Disciplines; 5 Conclusions; Reference. 2 An Approach to the Industrial Organization Engineering Background in SpainAbstract; 1 Industrial Engineering in Spain. Early History; 2 Industrial Engineering. The USA and Other Countries; 3 Spanish Industrial Engineering and Industrial Organization Engineering in the Last 65 Years; 4 The Second Cycle of Industrial Organization Engineering Degree; 5 The Degree and the Master in Industrial Organization Engineering; 6 The Organizational Engineering Development Association (ADINGOR); 7 Conclusions; References; 3 Sixty Years of Economics: Some Lessons for the Future; Abstract; 1 Introduction. 2 Growth and Inequality2.1 Growth and Inequality: The Evidence; 2.2 Trade as the Engine of Growth; 2.3 The Solow's Residual: Celebrating the Instability and Change of the Economy; 2.4 Preventing Inequality Needs to Reform the Social Contract (Rule of Law); 3 What Have We Learned from the Seventies Crisis?; 3.1 The "Augmented" Phillips Curve; 3.2 Rational Expectations; 3.3 Rational and Adaptive Expectations; 3.4 Expectations and Efficiency; 3.5 Granger's Causality, RE and AEx Equivalence; 4 What Can We Learn from the 2008 Crisis?; 4.1 Few Economists Saw the Crisis Coming. 4.2 The Crisis as a Classical Financial Panic in a New Financial System4.3 A New Financial System. Creating a Socially Useful Financial System; 5 Economics as a Social Science; 5.1 What Is Wrong with Economics?; 5.2 Mathematics and Game Theory Cannot Deal with Social Complexity; 5.3 Experimental Economics; 5.4 Artificial Economics (AE); 5.5 Building AE: The Exchange Window; 5.6 Socially Inspired Methods to Solve Complex Problems; 6 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 4 The New Industrial Organization; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Core Concepts; 2.1 Uncertainty; 2.2 Limited Rationality. 2.3 Information Asymmetry2.4 Specialization, Negotiation and Cooperation; 2.5 Variety; 2.6 Exchange: Institutional Dimension of Production; 2.7 The "E" Factor and Other Intangibles; 3 Economic Theories of the Firm; 3.1 Neoclassical Theory; 3.2 Transaction Cost Theory; 3.3 Theory of Ownership Rights; 3.4 Agency Theory; 3.5 Evolutionist Theory; 4 Concluding Remarks: The New Industrial Organization; References; The Governance System of the Firm; 5 The Application of the Viable System Model to Enhance Organizational Resilience; Abstract; 1 Introduction.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 232 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 658.5; Engineering; Industrial management -- Congresses; Business logistics -- Management -- Congresses; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Business logistics -- Management; Industrial management; Technology & Engineering -- Industrial Design -- Product; Business & Economics -- Production & Operations Management; Technical design; Economics of industrial organisation; Management of specific areas; Industrial engineering; Engineering design; Industrial organization; Production management; Technology & Engineering -- Industrial Engineering; Production engineering; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319558899; 3319558897
• Related ISBNs: 9783319558882
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 5, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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