Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Supply Chain Management or Strategy

Supply Chain Management

Author: Peter Meindl

This book brings together the strategic role of the supply chain, key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and the underlying tools and techniques for supply chain analysis. Students are able to articulate the strategic importance of supply chain thinking and support their ideas with evidence that can be built using models.



Table of Contents:
Ch. 1Understanding the supply chain3
Ch. 2Supply chain performance : achieving strategic fit and scope22
Ch. 3Supply chain drivers and metrics44
Ch. 4Designing distribution networks and applications to e-business75
Ch. 5Network design in the supply chain114
Ch. 6Network design in an uncertain environment152
Ch. 7Demand forecasting in a supply chain187
Ch. 8Aggregate planning in a supply chain218
Ch. 9Planning supply and demand in a supply chain : managing predictable variability241
Ch. 10Managing economies of scale in a supply chain : cycle inventory261
Ch. 11Managing uncertainty in a supply chain : safety inventory304
Ch. 12Determining the optimal level of product availability346
Ch. 13Transportation in a supply chain385
Ch. 14Sourcing decisions in a supply chain417
Ch. 15Pricing and revenue management in a supply chain459
Ch. 16Information technology in a supply chain482
Ch. 17Coordination in a supply chain497

Interesting book: Essentials of Public Speaking or The Media Handbook

Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory

Author: Joel Watson

In this innovative textbook, Joel Watson adopts a refreshing new format for teaching game theory to advanced undergraduates. The book is rigorous and mathematically precise but also extremely careful in its focus on using the simplest possible models and least complicated mathematics necessary. Another innovation of the book is the way in incorporates elements of contemporary contract theory into the exposition, in a format that is highly engaging for students and easily adapted to the standard coverage familiar to teachers.



Table of Contents:
Prefacexiii
1Introduction1
Noncooperative Game Theory2
Contract and Cooperative Game Theory4
The Meaning of "Game"5
Part IRepresenting Games7
2The Extensive Form9
Other Examples and Conventions15
Exercises19
3Strategies23
Exercises27
4The Normal Form29
Classic Normal-Form Games30
Interpretation of the Normal Form32
Exercises34
5Beliefs, Mixed Strategies, and Expected Utility38
Exercises40
Part IIAnalyzing Behavior in Static Settings43
6Dominance and Best Response45
Dominance45
The First Strategic Tension and the Prisoners' Dilemma47
The Concept of Efficiency49
Best Response50
Dominance and Best Response Compared52
Exercises55
7Rationalizability and Iterated Dominance58
The Second Strategic Tension61
Exercises63
8Location and Partnership67
A Location Game67
A Partnership Game: Strategic Complementarities70
Exercises76
9Congruous Strategies and Nash Equilibrium79
Congruous Sets81
Nash Equilibrium82
Equilibrium of the Partnership Game86
Coordination and Social Welfare87
The Third Strategic Tension89
Aside: Behavioral Game Theory90
Exercises92
10Oligopoly, Tariffs, and Crime and Punishment95
Cournot Duopoly Model95
Bertrand Duopoly Model97
Tariff Setting by Two Countries98
A Model of Crime and Police99
Exercises100
11Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium104
Exercises106
12Strictly Competitive Games and Security Strategies111
Exercises113
13Contract, Law, and Enforcement in Static Settings115
Complete Contracting in Discretionary Environments119
Contracting with Court-Imposed Breach Remedies122
Exercises127
Part IIIAnalyzing Behavior in Dynamic Settings131
14Details of the Extensive Form133
Exercises136
15Backward Induction and Subgame Perfection137
Sequential Rationality and Backward Induction138
Subgame Perfection141
Exercises145
16Topics in Industrial Organization150
Advertising and Competition150
A Model of Limit Capacity152
Dynamic Monopoly155
Price Guarantees as a Commitment to High Prices159
Exercises161
17Parlor Games165
Exercises167
18Bargaining Problems170
Bargaining: Value Creation and Division170
An Abstract Representation of Bargaining Problems172
An Example174
The Standard Bargaining Solution176
Exercises178
19Analysis of Simple Bargaining Games180
Ultimatum Games: Power to the Proposer180
Two-Period, Alternating-Offer Games: Power to the Patient182
Infinite-Period, Alternating-Offer Game186
Exercises187
20Games with Joint Decisions; Negotiation Equilibrium191
Joint Decisions192
Negotiation Equilibrium194
Example: Contracting for High-Powered Incentives195
Exercises197
21Investment, Hold Up, and Ownership201
Hold Up Example201
Asset Ownership203
Exercises205
22Repeated Games and Reputation210
A Two-Period Repeated Game211
An Infinitely Repeated Game216
The Equilibrium Payoff Set with Low Discounting219
Exercises223
23Collusion, Trade Agreements, and Goodwill227
Dynamic Oligopoly and Collusion227
Enforcing International Trade Agreements229
Goodwill and Trading a Reputation230
Exercises233
Part IVInformation237
24Random Events and Incomplete Information239
Exercises243
25Risk and Incentives in Contracting245
Risk Aversion245
A Principal-Agent Game249
Exercises254
26Bayesian Nash Equilibrium and Rationalizability256
Exercises258
27Trade with Incomplete Information262
Markets and Lemons262
Auctions264
Exercises269
28Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium272
Conditional Beliefs about Types273
Sequential Rationality274
Consistency of Beliefs275
Equilibrium Definition276
Exercises278
29Job-Market Signaling and Reputation282
Jobs and School282
Reputation and Incomplete Information285
Exercises288
Appendices293
AReview of Mathematics295
Sets295
Functions and Calculus297
Probability301
BThe Mathematics of Rationalizability307
Dominance, Best Response, and Correlated Conjectures307
Rationalizability Construction311
Exercises313
Index315

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