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The polycentricity of expansion strategies : beyond performance as a main driver by Drees, Johannes M.

Subjects: “…Strategies- Expansion…”

Strategic market management / by Aaker, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Part IV: GROWTH STRATEGIES. Chapter 13: Growth Strategies: Penetration, Product-Market Expansion; Vertical Integration and the Big Idea. …”

Unemployment : Theory, Policy and Structure

Table of Contents: “…Unemployment: Sociological, Medical and Psychological Aspects -- Unemployment and Trade Unions in Britain: the Politics of Industrial Relations in the Crisis -- Trade Union Strategy Towards Unemployment at the Local Level -- Youth Employment in the United States: Problem, Structure, Policy -- Implementation of Danish Youth Employment Policy -- Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany: Recent Empirical Evidence -- Some Health Effects of the Closure of a Danish Shipyard a Three-Year Follow-Up Study -- Unemployment and the Cultures of Young Women -- Female Unemployment and Knowledge of Self -- Backmatter…”

OM / by Collier, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Goods, Services, and Operations Management 2 (16) Operations Management 3 (1) OM in the Workplace 4 (2) Understanding Goods and Services 6 (2) Customer Benefit Packages 8 (3) Processes 11 (1) OM: A History of Change and Challenge 12 (2) A Focus on Efficiency 12 (1) The Quality Revolution 12 (1) Customization and Design 13 (1) Time-Based Competition 14 (1) The Service Revolution 14 (1) Current Challenges in OM 14 (4) Value Chains 18 (20) The Concept of Value 20 (1) Value Chain Perspectives 21 (4) An Example of a Value Chain: Buhrke Industries, Inc 23 (2) Supply Chains 25 (1) Value Chain Decisions 26 (3) Outsourcing and Vertical Integration 26 (1) The Economics of Outsourcing 27 (1) Value and Supply Chain Integration 28 (1) Offshoring 29 (3) Value Chains in a Global Business Environment 32 (6) A Global Value Chain: Rocky Shoes & Boots Company 32 (1) Issues in Global Value Chain Decisions 33 (1) Value Chains and Local Culture 34 (4) Measuring Performance in Operations 38 (20) Performance Measurement 39 (6) Financial Measures 40 (1) Customer and Market Measures 41 (1) Safety 42 (1) Quality 42 (1) Time 43 (1) Flexibility 44 (1) Innovation and Learning 44 (1) Productivity 45 (1) Linking Internal and External Measures 46 (1) The Value of a Loyal Customer 46 (1) Designing Measurement Systems in Operations 47 (1) Models of Organizational Performance 48 (10) Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Framework 48 (2) The Balanced Scorecard 50 (1) The Value Chain Model 51 (1) The Service-Profit Chain 52 (6) Operations Strategy 58 (18) Gaining Competitive Advantage 59 (1) Understanding Customer Requirements 60 (2) Evaluating Goods and Services 62 (1) Competitive Priorities 63 (4) Cost 64 (1) Quality 64 (2) Time 66 (1) Flexibility 66 (1) Innovation 66 (1) OM and Strategic Planning 67 (9) Operations Strategy at McDonald's 70 (6) Technology and Operations Management 76 (16) Understanding Technology in Operations 78 (2) Manufacturing Technology 78 (1) Service Technology 79 (1) Technology in Value Chains 80 (2) Integrated Operating Systems 82 (3) Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems (CIMS) 82 (1) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems 83 (1) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems 84 (1) Revenue Management Systems (RMS) 84 (1) Benefits and Challenges of Technology 85 (2) Technology Development and Adoption 87 (5) Goods and Service Design 92 (20) Desigining Goods and Services 93 (3) Robust Design and the Taguchi Loss Function 96 (2) Reliability 98 (1) Quality Function Deployment 99 (2) Product and Process Design in Manufacturing 101 (2) Quality Engineering 102 (1) Product and Process Simplification 102 (1) Design for Environmental Quality 103 (1) Service Delivery System Design 103 (2) Facility Location and Layout 104 (1) Servicescape 104 (1) Service Process and Job Design 104 (1) Technology and Information Support Systems 105 (1) Organizational Structure 105 (1) Service Encounter Design 105 (2) Customer Contact Behavior and Skills 106 (1) Service-Provider Selection, Development, and Empowerment 106 (1) Recognition and Reward 107 (1) Service Recovery and Guarantees 107 (1) An Integrative Case Study of LensCrafters 107 (5) Process Selection, Design, and Analysis 112 (20) Process Choice Decisions 114 (1) The Product-Process Matrix 115 (2) The Service-Positioning Matrix 117 (3) Process Design 120 (4) Process and Value Stream Mapping 121 (3) Process Analysis and Improvement 124 (2) Process Design and Resource Utilization 126 (6) Little's Law 128 (4) Facility and Work Design 132 (20) Facility Layout 134 (4) Product Layout 134 (1) Process Layout 135 (1) Cellular Layout 135 (1) Fixed-Position Layout 136 (1) Facility Layout in Service Organizations 137 (1) Designing Product Layouts 138 (5) Assembly Line Balancing 139 (2) Line Balancing Approaches 141 (2) Designing Process Layouts 143 (1) Workplace Design 144 (2) The Human Side of Work 146 (6) Supply Chain Design 152 (18) Understanding Supply Chains 154 (4) The Value and Supply Chain at Dell, Inc 156 (2) Designing the Supply Chain 158 (5) Efficient and Responsive Supply Chains 158 (1) Push and Pull Systems 158 (3) Supply Chain Design for Multisite Services 161 (1) Supply Chain Metrics 161 (1) The Bullwhip Effect 161 (2) Location Decisions in Supply Chains 163 (3) Critical Factors in Location Decisions 164 (1) Location Decision Process 164 (1) The Center of Gravity Method 165 (1) Other Issues in Supply Chain Management 166 (4) Capacity Management 170 (16) Understanding Capacity 172 (2) Economies and Diseconomies of Scale 172 (2) Capacity Measurement 174 (3) Safety Capacity 174 (1) Capacity Measurement in Job Shops 174 (1) Using Capacity Measures for Operations Planning 175 (2) Long-Term Capacity Strategies 177 (3) Capacity Expansion 178 (2) Short-Term Capacity Management 180 (1) Managing Capacity by Adjusting Short-Term Capacity Levels 180 (1) Managing Capacity by Shifting and Stimulating Demand 180 (1) Theory of Constraints 181 (5) Forecasting and Demand Planning 186 (22) Forecasting and Demand Planning 188 (1) Basic Concepts in Forecasting 189 (5) Forecast Planning Horizon 189 (1) Data Patterns in Time Series 190 (2) Forecast Errors and Accuracy 192 (2) Statistical Forecasting Models 194 (5) Single Moving Average 194 (2) Single Exponential Smoothing 196 (3) Regression as a Forecasting Approach 199 (4) Excel's Add Trendline Option 200 (1) Causal Forecasting Models with Multiple Regression 201 (2) Judgmental Forecating 203 (1) Forecasting in Practice 204 (4) Managing Inventories 208 (20) Understanding Inventory 210 (3) Key Definitions and Concepts 210 (2) Inventory Management Decisions and Costs 212 (1) Inventory Characteristics 213 (2) ABC Inventory Analysis 215 (1) Fixed Quantity Systems 215 (4) The EOQ Model 219 (3) Fixed Period Systems 222 (2) Single-Period Inventory Model 224 (4) Resource Management 228 (24) Resource Planning Framework for Goods and Services 230 (3) Aggregate Planning Options 233 (1) Strategies for Aggregate Planning 234 (2) Disaggregation in Manufacturing 236 (9) Master Production Scheduling 237 (1) Materials Requirements Planning 238 (2) Time Phasing and Lot Sizing in MRP 240 (5) Capacity Requirements Planning 245 (7) Operations Scheduling and Sequencing 252 (18) Understanding Scheduling and Sequencing 254 (1) Scheduling Applications and Approaches 255 (4) Staff Scheduling 255 (2) Appointment Systems 257 (2) Sequencing 259 (1) Sequencing Performance Criteria 259 (1) Sequencing Rules 260 (1) Applications of Sequencing Rules 260 (6) Single-Resource Sequencing Problem 260 (2) Two-Resource Sequencing Problem 262 (4) Schedule Monitoring and Control 266 (4) Quality Management 270 (18) Understanding Quality 272 (2) Influential Leaders in Modern Quality Management 274 (2) W. …”

Nonprofit organizations : theory, management, policy / by Anheier, Helmut K.

Table of Contents: “…The chapter reviews various revenue strategies for nonprofits, including fund-raising. The chapter concludes with an introduction to financial management and the development of business plans.Chapter 14In a first part, this chapter offers an overview of the theory and practice of leadership in nonprofit organizations from a multiple stakeholder perspective. …”

Roundtable viewpoints. International business by Robertson Christopher J.

Table of Contents: “…Field from ``Summit of Americas Ends in Deadlock,'' Boston Globe (November 6, 2005) 124 (2) Alan Clendenning from ``China, Chile and Free Trade Agreements,'' The Hindu (November 22, 2005) 126 (3) Jorge Heine from ``Global Confrontation: World Trade Organization Meeting Galvanizes Protestors,'' The San Francisco Chronicle (December 14, 2005) 129 (7) David Armstrong What Are Some Key Strategies for Taking Advantage of Modern Technologies Related to Global Logistics? …”

Microeconomics by Pindyck, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…274 (1) Alternative Forms of Organization 275 (1) Marginal Revenue, Marginal Cost, and Profit Maximization 276 (3) Demand and Marginal Revenue for a competitive Firm 277 (2) Profit Maximization by a Competitive Firm 279 (1) Choosing Output in the Short Run 279 (5) Short-Run Profit Maximization by a Competitive Firm 279 (1) The Short-Run Profit of a Competitive Firm 280 (4) The Competitive Firm's Short-Run Supply Curve 284 (3) the Firm's Response to an Input Price Change 284 (3) The Short-Run Market Supply Curve 287 (5) Elasticity of Market Supply 288 (3) Producer Surplus in the Short Run 291 (1) Choosing Output in the Long Run 292 (7) Long-Run Profit Maximization 293 (1) Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium 294 (3) Economic Rent 297 (1) Producer Surplus in the Long Run 297 (2) The Industry's Long-Run Supply curve 299 (6) Constant-Cost Industry 299 (1) Increasing-Cost Industry 300 (2) Decreasing-Cost Industry 302 (1) The Effects of a Tax 302 (1) Long-Run Elasticity of Supply 303 (2) Summary 305 (1) Questions for Review 306 (1) Exercises 306 (3) The Analysis of Competitive Markets 309 (38) Evaluating the Gains and Losses from Government Policies--Consumer and Producer Surplus 309 (6) Review of Consumer and Producer Surplus 310 (1) Application of Consumer and Producer Surplus 311 (4) The Efficiency of a Competitive Market 315 (4) Minimum Prices 319 (5) Price Supports and Production Quotas 324 (7) Price Supports 324 (1) Production Quotas 325 (6) Import Quotas and Tariffs 331 (4) The Impact of a Tax or Subsidy 335 (7) The Effects of a Subsidy 339 (3) Summary 342 (1) Questions for Review 342 (1) Exercises 343 (4) Part Three Market Structure and Competitive Strategy 347 (236) Market Power: Monopoly and Monopsony 349 (42) Monopoly 350 (11) Average Revenue and Marginal Revenue 350 (2) The Monopolist's Output Decision 352 (1) An Example 353 (1) A Rule of Thumb for Pricing 354 (3) Shifts in Demand 357 (1) The Effect of a Tax 357 (2) The Multiplant Firm 359 (2) Monopoly Power 361 (5) Measuring Monopoly Power 362 (1) The Rule of Thumb for Pricing 363 (3) Sources of Monopoly Power 366 (2) The Elasticity of Market Demand 367 (1) The Number of Firms 367 (1) The Interaction Among Firms 368 (1) The Social Costs of Monopoly Power 368 (5) Rent Seeking 370 (1) Price Regulation 370 (2) Natural Monopoly 372 (1) Regulation in Practice 373 (1) Monopsony 373 (3) Monopsony and Monopoly Compared 376 (1) Monopsony Power 376 (5) Sources of Monopsony Power 377 (2) The Social Costs of Monopsony Power 379 (1) Bilateral Monopoly 380 (1) Limiting Market Power: The Antitrust Laws 381 (6) Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws 383 (1) Antitrust in Europe 384 (3) Summary 387 (1) Questions for Review 387 (1) Exercises 388 (3) Pricing with Market Power 391 (52) Capturing Consumer Surplus 392 (1) Price Discrimination 393 (10) First-Degree Price Discrimination 393 (3) Second-Degree Price Discrimination 396 (1) Third-Degree Price Discrimination 397 (6) Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Peak-Load Pricing 403 (3) Intertemporal Price Discrimination 403 (1) Peak-Load Pricing 404 (2) The Two-Part Tariff 406 (7) Bundling 413 (11) Relative Valuations 414 (4) Mixed Bundling 418 (3) Bundling in Practice 421 (2) Tying 423 (1) Advertising 424 (4) A Rule of Thumb for Advertising 426 (2) Summary 428 (1) Questions for Review 429 (1) Exercises 429 (4) Transfer Pricing in the Integrated Firm 433 (8) Transfer Pricing When There Is No Outside Market 433 (3) Transfer Pricing with a Competitive Outside Market 436 (2) Transfer Pricing with a Noncompetitive Outside Market 438 (1) A Numerical Example 439 (2) Exercises 441 (2) Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly 443 (36) Monopolistic Competition 444 (5) The Makings of Monopolistic Competition 444 (1) Equilibrium in the Short Run and the Long Run 445 (1) Monopolistic Competition and Economic Efficiency 446 (3) Oligopoly 449 (7) Equilibrium in an Oligopolistic Market 449 (1) The Cournot Model 450 (3) The Linear Demand Curve---An Example 453 (2) First Mover Advantage---The Stackelberg Model 455 (1) Price Competition 456 (5) Price Competition with Homogeneous Products--The Bertrand Model 456 (2) Price Competition with Differential Products 458 (3) Competition versus Collusion: The Prisoners' Dilemma 461 (3) Implications of the Prisoners' Dilemma for Oligopolistic Pricing 464 (5) Price Rigidity 465 (1) Price Signaling and Price Leadership 465 (3) The Dominant Firm Model 468 (1) Cartels 469 (6) Analysis of Cartel Pricing 470 (5) Summary 475 (1) Questions for Review 475 (1) Exercises 476 (3) Game Theory and Competitive Strategy 479 (42) Gaming and Strategic Decisions 479 (3) Noncooperative versus Cooperative Games 480 (2) Dominant Strategies 482 (2) The Nash Equilibrium Revisited 484 (6) Maximin Strategies 486 (2) Mixed Strategies 488 (2) Repeated Games 490 (4) Sequential Games 494 (3) The Extensive Form of a Game 495 (1) The Advantage of Moving First 496 (1) Threats, Commitments, and Credibility 497 (6) Empty Threats 498 (1) Commitment and Credibility 498 (2) Bargaining Strategy 500 (3) Entry Deterrence 503 (6) Strategic Trade Policy and International Competition 505 (4) Auctions 509 (8) Auction Formats 510 (1) Valuation and Information 510 (1) Private-Value Auctions 511 (1) Common-Value Auctions 512 (1) Maximizing Auction Revenue 513 (1) Bidding and Colusion 514 (3) Summary 517 (1) Questions for Review 517 (1) Exercises 518 (3) Markets for Factor Inputs 521 (30) Competitive Factor Markets 521 (13) Demand for a Factor Input When Only One Input Is Variable 522 (2) Demand for a Factor Input When Several Inputs Are Variable 524 (2) The Market Demand Curve 526 (3) The Supply of Inputs to a Firm 529 (2) The Market Supply of Inputs 531 (3) Equilibrium in a Competitive Factor Market 534 (5) Economic Rent 535 (4) Factor Markets with Monopsony Power 539 (4) Monopsony Power: Marginal and Average Expenditure 539 (1) Purchasing Decisions with Monopsony Power 540 (1) Bargaining Power 541 (2) Factor Markets with Monopoly Power 543 (6) Monopoly Power over the Wage Rate 544 (1) Unionized and Nonunionized Workers 545 (4) Summary 549 (1) Questions for Review 549 (1) Exercises 550 (1) Investment, Time, and Capital Markets 551 (32) Stocks versus Flows 552 (1) Present Discounted Value 553 (3) Valuing Payment Streams 553 (3) The Value of a Bond 556 (4) Perpetuities 556 (1) The Effective Yield on a Bond 557 (3) The Net Present Value Criterion for Capital Investment Decisions 560 (4) The Electric Motor Factory 561 (1) Real versus Nominal Discount Rates 562 (1) Negative Future Cash Flows 563 (1) Adjustments for Risk 564 (4) Diversifiable versus Nondiversifiable Risk 564 (1) The Capital Asset Pricing Model 565 (3) Investment Decisions by Consumers 568 (2) Investments in Human Capital 570 (3) Intertemporal Production Decisions---Depletable Resources 573 (4) The Production Decision of an Individual Resource Producer 574 (1) The Behavior of Market Price 574 (1) User Cost 575 (1) Resource Production by a Monopolist 576 (1) How Are Interest Rates Determined? …”