Strategic Management and Operations Research (In 4 Volumes)

Strategic Management of the corporate entity, conglomerate or global chain, envisages the deployment of scientific and intellectual methodologies which include: forecasting, PPBS (planning, programming and budgeting). MIS (management information systems) and Operations Research. The major components of Operations Research include: allocation methods, distribution methods, sequencing methods, competitive methods, inventory methods, and simulation methods. As the theory of planning attains greater maturity of content and universality of acceptance, the role of the various factors and constituents of strategic management are expected to improve in their total effectiveness. A vast amount of scholarly research and the pragmatic-study of planning as evidenced by contemporary thinking in the field indicate a welcome resurgence of interest in this most significant administrative discipline.Organised in four volumes, the salient features of the work are: Management: Planning and Design; Technology Optimization and Management Systems; Management Objectives; and Dynamics of Strategic Management.