Advances in management engineering

• Corporate Author: New Industrial Organization Workshop
• Other Authors: Hernández Iglesias, Cesáreo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
• Series: Lecture notes in management and industrial engineering.
• Subjects: Industrial management > Congresses.; Business logistics > Management > Congresses.; elektronické knihy; electronic books

This book deals with research in open challenges in Management Engineering in the 21st century, as well as selected opportunities and solutions to remedy them. Management Engineering is an emerging field that extends the analytical methods used in traditional Industrial Engineering and Industrial Or...

Table of 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.