"This book presents cutting-edge knowledge on scientific approaches to the management of supply networks in a highly informed global environment with abundant dynamic and uncertain challenges"--Provided by publisher

The information technology (IT) revolution has arrived, but how much will it change the world? It has been established that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production...

By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the sources of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. We investigate the following two related hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Random Variable Generation -- 1.1 Basic Methods -- 1.1.1 Congruential Generators -- 1.1.2 The KISS Generator -- 1.1.3 Beyond Uniform Distributions -- 1.2 Transformation Methods -- 1.3 Accept-Reject...

It is almost impossible to conceive of the concept and practical application of supply chain management (SCM) without linking it to the enabling power of today's information technologies. Building upon the foundations of the first edition, Introduction to Supply Chain Management Technologies,...