As the business environment continues to rapidly change, Dan Reid and Nada Sanders have developed an integrated approach that makes the introductory OM course accessible and engaging for all business majors. Beyond providing a solid foundation, this text covers emerging topics like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Data Analytics, and Sustainability and gives equal time to strategic and tactical decisions in both service and manufacturing organizations.

This beautifully written and thoroughly modern core textbook provides a strong bridge between entrepreneurship theory and practice and looks at the entire life cycle of a business, including the often neglected area of business closure. Underpinned by strong academic rigour, the text takes a critical approach, yet is also highly accessible and readable, explaining complex concepts clearly and succinctly. Research-led yet practice oriented, it examines the latest evidence-based thinking in the...

Nickels/McHugh/McHugh, Understanding Business is a market-leading product that meets the needs of nearly all classrooms, no matter the size, teaching modality or learning objectives. The content is unmatched in depth, breadth, currency and relevancy, and is presented in an extremely readable format for students with all learning styles. A wealth of technology solutions through McGraw Hill Connect engages students, enriches learning, furthers understanding, and simplifies instructors’ assess...

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager who has been given 90 days to save his failing factory. If he doesn't improve the plant's performance, corporate headquarters will close it down and hundreds of workers will lose their jobs. It takes a chance meeting with Jonah, a former professor, to help him break out of his conventional thinking and figure out what needs to be done.

As Alex identifies the plant's problems and works with his team to find solutions, the reader gains an understanding of th...

With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life.' - Blake E. Ashforth, Arizona State University 'Understanding Organizational Culture comunicates complex ideas in a manner that will illuminate for those who are less familiar with the concepts discussed, as well as providing a depth and critique of interest to those familiar w...

'First rate and comprehensive. This book has got it just right: a rich blend of academic underpinning and practical examples in a very readable style. You are encouraged to participate in the almost distance-learning approach and via the innovative and thought provoking "stop-points" - Martin Evans, Senior Fellow, Cardiff Business School

YOU DON'T NEED TO BUILD YOUR PERSONAL BRAND, BUT YOUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE NORMALLY A LOT BETTER IF YOU DO Everyone has a personal brand. You have a personal brand with your colleagues; you have a personal brand with your friends--you even have a personal brand with the barista who served you your coffee this morning. Everyone has a personal brand because, simply put, your personal brand is your reputation. But what your personal brand looks like is up to you. In The Personal Branding Playbook, ...

For decades outsourcing has been a major international phenomenon in business. Information Technology represents a unique case for outsourcing both in terms of benefits and potential pitfalls. Accessible and cutting-edge, this book provides a practical perspective on this important and far-reaching challenge in IT management.

This book examines sustainable manufacturing, from the extraction of materials to processing, use and disposal, and argues that significant changes in all of the above are needed for the world to progress toward a more circular economy.

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing is the most well-established and influential strategic pricing text available, relied on by practitioners and students globally as a core guide for value-based pricing. The book explains how to balance the ability to create and extract value through from markets by managing pricing decisions in a more strategic and profitable manner. Rather than calculating prices to cover costs or to achieve sales goals, readers will learn to frame more strategic choices t...