Books in the Foundations and Trends (R) in Technology, Information and Operations Management series

Explores the operations management (OM) literature in national culture and organisational culture and points the way for increasing the breadth of the OM field by incorporating this perspective. In addition to being a guide for research, this monograph provides substantive examples for teaching the importance of culture in OM.

Shows how RFID has transformed the supply chain over the last decade and examines the manufacturing, logistics and retail aspects of RFID. The authors describe a vision of an "Internet of Things", where each participating object has a digital shadow with related information stored in cyberspace.

Examines the impact of service industrialization on employment and wages in the US to understand the forces that drive them; using national income and labor data until 2017 to presents a macroeconomic context for an analysis of employment and wages; and identifies implications of the above for management and public policy.

Presents and integrates various cutting-edge theoretical frameworks and methodologies from the operations management and organisational research literatures to use diverse methodologies in order to help organisations excel in reliability, performance, and innovation.

Presents the state-of-the-art in research thought leadership in supply chain finance and risk management, and contains great expository pieces on how advanced technologies are shaping supply chains and risk management within them. How supply chain finance and risk management can be best taught in classrooms is also covered.

Examines three themes: Financing Issues in Supply Chains look into working capital management financing practices; FinTech Innovations for Supply Chains examines business model innovations for supply chain financing; amd Advances in Risk Management of Operational Systems provides state-of-the art thinking on risk issues in supply chain operations.

Focuses on the battery electric vehicle segment of the automobile industry. The book traces the development of the industry, identifies key decisions by various participants, and analyses these decisions from a platform strategy lens.