Advances in business and management. Volume 12 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nelson, William D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2017]
Temas:
Business forecasting > Data processing.
Business forecasting.
Management.
Prévision commerciale > Informatique.
Prévision commerciale.
Gestion.
management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ADVANCES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT VOLUME 12 ; ADVANCES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT VOLUME 12 ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; Chapter 1 THE GROWING POPULARITY OF PM WITHIN BUSINESSES: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, GLOBALIZATION AND THE ISSUE OF FLEXIBILITY ; ABSTRACT ; 1. HUMAN NEEDS, PRODUCTION AND PM ; 1.1. Time, Activities and Production: Organizational Considerations ; 1.2. From Pre-Industrialization Artisans to Firms: The Rise of Administrative Sciences ; 1.3. The Eminent Domain of PM among Administrative Sciences ; 2. GLOBALIZATION, FIRMS AND THE VALUE OF PM.
  • 2.1. The Growing Distance between Resources and Needs: More Administration 2.2. The Composition of Firms and PM as a New Component ; 2.3. Firms' Informal Ownership Structure and PM Value for Businesses in Context of Globalization ; 3. IMPORTING PM INTO BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: SOME ISSUES ; 3.1. Pre-Considerations on the Definition of Projects ; 3.2. Flexibility, Transaction Costs and Contracts; 3.3 Project Failure Rate and Organizational Performance ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES ; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
  • Chapter 2 THE TWO-WAY LINK BETWEEN SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES MODERATED BY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; DATA AND METHOD ; Population and Sample ; Earnings Management Measure ; Corporate Social Responsibility Measure ; Corporate Governance System ; Control Variables ; Models of Analyses ; RESULTS ; Descriptive Analysis ; Granger Test of Causality ; Results of Dependency Models ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
  • Chapter 3 DESIGN THINKING, DESIGN MANAGEMENT AND DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR PROMOTING SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SOLUTIONSABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; THREE ELEMENTS
  • DESIGN MANAGEMENT, DESIGN CONCEPTS AND DESIGN THINKING
  • IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ; DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR PROMOTING SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SOLUTIONS; LIFE CYCLE THINKING ; COMPARISON OF FOUR DESIGN CONCEPTS THAT PROMOTE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: UNIVERSAL DESIGN, ECO-DESIGN, CRADLE TO CRADLE DESIGN AND BIOMIMICRY ; UNIVERSAL DESIGN (UD) ; ECO-DESIGN ; NATURE-INSPIRED DESIGN CONCEPTS ; BIOMIMICRY ; CRADLE TO CRADLE (C2C) DESIGN.
  • DESIGN MANAGEMENT FOR PROMOTING SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SOLUTIONS DIFFERENT DESIGN MANAGEMENT APPROACHES; DESIGN MANAGEMENT GROWTH (OR MATURITY) MODELS AND DESIGN INTEGRATION ; DEVELOPMENT OF DESIGN MANAGEMENT AND CURRENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICE ; THE MEANING AND CHARACTERISTICS OF DESIGN THINKING IN THE CONTEXT OF DESIGN MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ; DESIGNERLY THINKING AND DESIGN THINKING ; SPACES OF DESIGN THINKING ; THE FOUR STAGES OF DESIGN THINKING ; TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES OF DESIGN THINKING ; DESIGN THINKING AND THE FOUR HALLMARKS ; CRITICS OF DESIGN THINKING.

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