Operations Research (OR)

10 of the Best Books and Articles on: Operations Research (OR)

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1.

Analyzing Operations in Business: Issues, Tools, and Techniques
by Michael R. Summers. 235 pgs.

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The field of operations management is increasingly recognized as being crucial to the success of a company. The premise of this book is that learning specific analytical techniques can provide a deeper understanding of the problems in operations management than merely reading about these problems. The book is concise while still providing a broad discussion of the issues and details to learn these valuable tools.

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Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Operations Management

Part I: Long-Run Decisions

Chapter 2: Location of Facilities

Chapter 3: Layout of Facilities

Chapter 4: Process Planning and Job Design

Chapter 5: Time Studies

Part II: Medium-Run Decisions

Chapter 6: Forecasting

Chapter 7: Aggregate Planning

Part III: Short-Run Decisions

Chapter 8: Inventory Models for Independent Demand

Chapter 9: Inventory Models for Dependent Demand

Chapter 10: Production Scheduling and Control

Chapter 11: Just-In-Time Systems

Chapter 12: Project Planning with Pert

Chapter 13: Quality Control

Chapter 14: Putting It All Together: Developing World-Class Operations

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Bibliography

Index

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Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution
by Yehouda Shenhav. 247 pgs.

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Management is a powerful mode of thought and code of conduct in the modern world, closely associated with the American way and a natural extension of economic progress. This is a book about the history of management and the origin of managerial rationality in the United States.

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Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Notes

1: Prophets of Management: American Engineers Between Industrial Growth and Labor Unrest

Notes

2: Engineering Rationality: 'System Shall Replace Chaos'

Notes

3: Colonizing the Mind: the Translation of Systematization to the Management of Organizations

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4: Contested Rationality: Disturbances, Controversies, and Opposition to Management Systems

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5: Engineers, Labor Politics, and American Exceptionalism Before 1900

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6: Taming the Shrew: Systems and Labor Politics During the Progressive Period

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7: Deus Ex Machina: Concluding Remarks

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Appendix: Description of the Engineering Management LIterature

Notes

References

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An Introductory Approach to Operations Research (1978)
by Robert J. Thierauf. 426 pgs.

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About the Author

Preface

Contents

Part I Overview of Operations Research

Introduction Summary

Bibliography

Part Ii Operations Research Models -- Algebra

Chapter 1: Breakeven Analysis

Chapter 2 Inventory Control Models

Part III Operations Research Models -- Probability and Statistics

Chapter Summary

Chapter 3 Decision Theory

Chapter 4 Decision Making with A Variable Demand

Chapter 5 Pert / Time and Pert / Cost

Part Iv Operations Research Models -- Matrix Algebra

Chapter 6 Linear Programming -- Graphic and Simplex Methods

Chapter 7

Chapter 8: Dynamic Programming

Chapter 9: Markov Analysis

Part V Operations Research Models -- Simulation Techniques

Chapter 10: Queuing Models

Chapter 11: Simulation

Part Vi Future of Operations Research

Chapter 12 Operations Research -- Present and Future

Appendixes

Appendix A Vectors, Matrices, and Determinants

Appendix C Areas Under the Curve

Appendix D Random Numbers Table

Appendix E Answers to Mathematical Exercises

Index
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Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory since 1945 (Chap. 2 "Management by the Numbers: Operations Research and Management Science")
by Stephen P. Waring. 288 pgs.

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Contents

Preface

Introduction: Politics in Management History

1: Taylorism and beyond

2: Management by the Numbers

3: Economics and Cybernetics

4: Virtue as Managerial Vision

5: The Rationality of Feelings

6: Capitalism without Class?

7: The American Samurai

Conclusion: The Management Theory of Value

Notes

Bibliography

Index
5.

Operations Research: Methods and Problems (1959)
by Maurice Sasieni, Arthur Yaspan. 318 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Probability

References

Chapter Three: Sampling

References

Chapter Four: Inventory

Chapter Five: Replacement

References

Chapter Six: Waiting Lines

References

Chapter Seven: Competitive Strategies

References

Chapter Eight: Allocation

References

Chapter Nine: Sequencing

References

Chapter Ten: Dynamic Programming

References

Appendix One: Finite Differences

Appendix Two: Differentiation of Integrals

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Problems in Basic Operations Research Methods for Management (1961)
by Randolph W. Cabell, Almarin Phillips. 118 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

part I Introduction

part II Mathematical Programming Problems

3 Psi Metal-Working Company: the "modi" method

4 Beta Machine Products Company: the simplex method

5 Lambda Fertilizer Company: the simplex method

6 The Southern Cotton Mill: the simplex method

7 Kappa Manufacturing Company: convex programming and the simplex method

8 Taylor and Lockhart Farms: programming with more complicated restraints

9 Sierra Mills, Incorporated: programming under uncertain conditions

10 Gamma Valve Company: Flood's assignment method

11 Omicron Airfreight Company: Flood's assignment method

12 Delta Machine Tool Department: short-cut and approximation methods

part III Inventory Problems

14 Lynchburg Foundry Company: uncertain demand

15 Epsilon Office Supply Company

16 Zeta Radio Company

17 Upsilon Chemical Company

18 Nu Printing Company

19 Homepower Equipment Company

20 Sigma Tile, Incorporated

part IV Dynamic Programming Problems

22 Rho Machine and Foundry Company: dynamic programming

part V Queuing Problems

24 Phi Oil Company: multiple channel queuing

25 Iota Equipment Company: multiple stage queuing and Monte Carlo analysis

26 Rutledge-Warren Company: a more complicated queuing and servicing problem

27 Electronautics Corporation: another complicated queuing and servicing problem

part VI Replacement Problems

29 Suburbia Electric Company: items that fail

part VII Analysis of Variance

31 Pi Industries: three-factor analysis

32 Summit Fabrics: Latin square design

33 Chi Electronics: Graeco-Latin square design

34 XI Laboratories: three-factor analysis

part VIII Miscellaneous Problems

36 Omega Company

37 Baker Paint Company

appendix References to Instructional Materials

Reference Guide
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New Decision-Making Tools for Managers: Mathematical Programing as an Aid in the Solving of Business Problems (1963) (Chap. 1 "Operations Research for Management")
by Edward C. Bursk, John F. Chapman. 416 pgs.

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Contents

Introduction

General

Mathematical Programing:: Better Information for Better Decision Making

3: How to Plan and Control With Pert

Appendixes

4: Meaningful Costs For Management Action

5: Econometrics for Management

Finance

7: Mathematical Models In Capital Budgeting

Marketing

9: Marketing Costs And Mathematical Programing

10: Tests for Test Marketing Benjamin Lipstein

11: Less Risk in Inventory Estimates

Product Strategy

13: Strategies for Diversification

14: Selecting Profitable Products

Production

16: The Statistically Designed Experiment

17: Quality Control

List of Contributors

Index
8.

Economic Theory and Operations Analysis (1962) (Part IV "Application to Marketing and Operations Research")
by William J. Baumol. 442 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Part I Analytic Tools of Optimization

Chapter One: Optimization and an Example from Inventory Analysis

Chapter Two Some Elementary Mathematics

Chapter Three: Marginal Analysis

Chapter Four: Maximization, Minimization, and Elementary Differential Calculus

Chapter Five: Linear Programming

Chapter Six: Nonlinear Programming

Chapter Seven Integer Programming

Part Ii Microeconomic Analysis

Chapter Eight: Theory of Demand

Chapter Nine Production and Cost

References

Chapter Ten: The Firm and Its Objectives

Chapter Eleven: Market Structure, Pricing, and Output

Chapter Twelve: General Equilibrium and the Theory of Money

Chapter Thirteen: General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics

Chapter Fourteen: Theory of Distribution

Part III Recent Developments in Mathematical Economics

Chapter Fifteen: Input-Output Analysis

Chapter Sixteen Activity Analysis

Chapter Seventeen Neumann-Morgenstern Cardinal Utility

Chapter Eighteen: Game Theory

Chapter Nineteen: Decision Theory

Part Iv Application to Marketing and Operations Research

Chapter Twenty Theory in Marketing

Chapter Twenty-One Marketing and Operations Research

Chapter Twenty-Two Electronic Camputers

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Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management (Chap. 10 "Public Relations Management and Operations Research")
by David M. Dozier, William P. Ehling, James E. Grunig, Larissa A. Grunig, Fred C. Repper, Jon White. 666 pgs.

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Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Communication, Public Relations, and Effective Organizations: an Overview of the Book

I: The Basic Theory

2: The Effect of Worldviews on Public Relations Theory and Practice

3: What Is an Effective Organization?

4: Public Relations and Management Decision Making

5: How Communication Managers Can Apply the Theories of Excellence and Effectiveness

II: The Program Level Effective Planning of Communication Programs

6: Strategic Management, Publics, and Issues

7: Evaluation of Public Relations Programs: What the Literature Tells Us about Their Effects

8: Research Firms and Public Relations Practices

III: The Departmental Level: Characteristics of Excellent Public Relations Departments

9: What Is Excellence in Management?

10: Public Relations Management and Operations Research

11: Models of Public Relations and Communication

12: The Organizational Roles of Communications and Public Relations Practitioners

Conclusion

References

13: Public Relations and Marketing Practices

14: The Organization of the Public Relations Function

15: Women in Public Relations: Problems and Opportunities

16: Public Relations Education and Professionalism

IV: The Organizational Level: the Conditions That Make Excellence in Public Relations Possible

17: How Public Relations/Communication Departments Should Adapt to the Structure and Environment of an Organization . . . and What They Actually Do

18: Power in the Public Relations Department

19: Activism: How It Limits the Effectiveness of Organizations and How Excellent Public Relations Departments Respond

20: Symmetrical Systems of (Internal Communication

21: Corporate Culture and Public Relations

22: Societal Culture and Public Relations

V: The Economic Level: What Public Relations and Communication Contribute to the Bottom Line

23: Estimating the Value of Public Relations and Communication to an Organization

Conclusion

Appendix A: Quantification of a Purposeful State

Appendix B: Quantification of a Purposeful State

Appendix C: Quantification of a Purposeful State

Appendix E: Quantification of a Purposeful State

Appendix D: Quantification of a Purposeful State

Author Index

Subject Index
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Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist, and Socialist (Chap. 11 "The Father of Operational Research")
by Tam Dalyell, Peter Hore. 330 pgs.

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Such was the incredible presence and raw integrity of the subject of this biography that the author of the foreword is sure that Robert Maxwell would have stayed on the straight and narrow had Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett lived a bit longer.

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Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

1: Boy Blackett

2: The Selborne Scheme: the Education of the Boy

3: One of Fisher's Revolutions: the Education of the Navy

4: Blackett at Sea

5: The Midshipman and the Secret Gadget

6: Blackett at Cambridge

7: Preparations for War

8: Blackett and the Black Arts

9: A Clash of Cultures: the Case for Large Convoys

10: The Case Against Area Bombing

11: The Father of Operational Research

12: Blackett and Nuclear Strategy

13: Blackett in India: Thinking Strategically About New Conflicts

14: A Physicist in the Corridors of Power

15: The Scientific Context of Blackett's Achievements

16: The Reluctant Peer in Politics

Notes on Contributors

Index

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