Written by best-selling authors in their field, the fifth edition of Operations and Process Management inspires a critical and applied mastery of the core principles and process which are fundamental to successfully managing business operations. Approaching the subject from a managerial perspective, this innovative text provides clear and concise coverage of the nature, principles, and practice…
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This book can help overcome the widely observed math-phobia and math-aversion among undergraduate students in economics, business, and finance. The book can also help them understand why they have to learn different mathematical techniques, how these techniques can be applied, and how the techniques will equip the students in their further studies. The book provides a thorough but lucid exp…
Information Technology Project Management, Eighth Edition, is the only text-book to apply all 10 project management knowledge areas and all five process groups to information technology projects. As you will learn, the project management knowledge areas are project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management. The five pr…
In the sixth edition, I build on the strengths of the first five editions, while producing a framework for students of macroeconomics that captures all of the latest developments in macroeconomic thinking, applied to recent economic events and developments in macroeconomic policy. Previous editions of this text used available macroeconomic models and new ideas to analyze the events of the globa…
Much of this is in Appendix 1: Portfolio theory. We try to ‘make sense of’ financial activity from the economist’s perspective. Thus, we go to some lengths to show how financial activity has its origins in the real economy and in the need to lend and to borrow to enable real investment to take place. Similarly, when we talk about the shortcomings of financial markets and institutions, we…
This chapter discusses the role of business in society and explains how a business organisation in a market economy employs the various resources of a nation (its natural resources, human resources, financial resources and entrepreneurship) in order to satisfy the need for products and services. The chapter gives an overview of the prevailing economic systems in the world and explains how the b…
Microeconomics and its role in decision making and public policy Microeconomics exposes students to topics that play a central role in microeconomics. From game theory and competitive strategy, to the roles of uncertainty and information, and the analysis of pricing by firms with market power, the text helps students understand what’s going on in the world of business. It also shows studen…
The primary objective in writing this book is to explain the concepts of business statistics lucidly along with solution procedures and analysis of results. Numerous solved business oriented examples have been presented throughout the text. Unsolved Self Practice Problems with Hints and Answers and Review Questions have been added in each chapter to strengthen the conceptual as well as practica…