Transforming Organizations Through Flexible Systems Management

✍ Scribed by P.K. Suri, Rajan Yadav

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Series: Flexible Systems Management
• Edition: 1st ed. 2020
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book focuses on key emerging areas concerning flexible systems management as an approach for transforming organizations. It is divided into three parts, discussing Enterprise Flexibility and Performance Management; Transformational Strategies and Organizational Competitiveness; and Supply Chain Flexibility. Part I addresses the integration aspects of learning, innovation, and entrepreneurship for organizational success, performance gains through cross-border acquisitions, flexibility measurement, and organizational competitiveness, impact of disinvestment, employability gaps and sustainable growth. Part II then examines risk governance structure, supporting culture, channel collaboration, waste management, IT-based process re-engineering, HR flexibility and adoption of big data as transformational strategies. Lastly, the third part investigates the development of a framework for a green flexible manufacturing system, measuring the effect of supply chain design on firm performance, exploring and ranking logistics service providers’ best practices, and exploring the relationship between optimism and career planning in the context of manufacturing sector, and analyzes customers’ emotional engagement and their inclinations towards the brand. The concept of flexibility is a common thread running through the three parts. The book is supported by both quantitative- and qualitative-based research as well as case applications relating to different areas of government and profit and not for profit organizations. Written by leading academics and practitioners, it is a useful resource for management students, scholars, consultants and practicing managers in both government and corporate sectors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Generic Flexibility Evaluation Model (Sanjai Kumar Shukla, Sushil)....Pages 3-18
Strategic Flexibility Through Cross-Border Acquisitions: Market Response in Indian Context (Samta Jain, Smita Kashiramka, P. K. Jain)....Pages 19-31
Impact of Disinvestment on Transforming the Performance of Indian Public Enterprises (Seema Gupta, P. K. Jain, Surendra S. Yadav)....Pages 33-58
Effect of Vital Organizational Processes on Flexibility (Sumant Kumar Bishwas, Sushil)....Pages 59-74
Employers’ Perception on the Antecedents of Graduate Employability for the Information Technology Sector (Nidhi Sehgal, Saboohi Nasim)....Pages 75-100
Front Matter ....Pages 101-101
Big Data: Enabling Transformation Through Empowerment (Charu Verma, P. K. Suri)....Pages 103-125
E-Assessment—A Digital Solution for Promoting e-Governance (Saurabh Gupta, Ashesh Agarwal, Amita Srivastava)....Pages 127-143
Giving off a Rosy Glow: Exploring the Link Between Self-efficacy Optimism, Personal Optimism and Career Planning in Indian Sub-continent (Teena Bharti, Santosh Rangnekar)....Pages 145-162
Technology-Driven Workplace Transformation ( Annapurna, A. Guruprasad, Y. Satyanarayana Murty)....Pages 163-175
Supportive Culture: A Transformational Strategy (Monica Verma)....Pages 177-188
Framework for Sustainable Healthcare Waste Management in India (Ankur Chauhan)....Pages 189-204
Sentiment Analysis: An Effective Way of Interpreting Consumer’s Inclinations Towards a Brand (Anurag Tiruwa, Rajan Yadav, P. K. Suri)....Pages 205-219
Front Matter ....Pages 221-221
Channel Collaboration in E-commerce: A Study on Channel Relationship from the Perspective of Vendors Selling on Online Platforms, the E-retailers (Rajan Yadav, Swati Bhatnagar)....Pages 223-241
Examining Adoption of eNAM Platform for Transforming Agricultural Marketing in India (Sanjay Chaudhary, P. K. Suri)....Pages 243-256
Prioritizing Best Practices for Logistics Service Providers (Anchal Gupta, Rajesh Kumar Singh, P. K. Suri)....Pages 257-275
Framework for Green Flexible Manufacturing System (Dimple Bhandari, Rajesh Kumar Singh, S. K. Garg)....Pages 277-286
Back Matter ....Pages 287-292

✦ Subjects

Business and Management; Business Strategy/Leadership; Supply Chain Management; Business Process Management; Big Data/Analytics