This volume analyzes the rising inclusion of new and emerging technologies in business. It measures the effectiveness and challenges of these tools in various aspects of strategy and decision making within small and big businesses.
Businesses in the competitive market must be agile and innovative to drive growth, and the inclusion of technology and reliance on data science for decision making is fraught with its own set of challenges. Through various case studies and analysis of trends, the book explores diverse dimensions of decision science from a micro as well as macro perspective. It examines the function, management, and implementation of new technologies, like big data and AI in business operations and infrastructure, highlighting their practical applications as well as the barriers to their adoption.
This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of management studies, business management, financial management, business economics, international business, finance and marketing, development studies, and economics. It will also interest policymakers and practitioners in the field.
List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors 1. Building Competitive Supply Chains: A way through Supply Chain Resilience 2. Dynamic Capability, Innovation Capability and Business Process Agility: Moderating Impact of Environmental Turbulence 3. Inventory Management Practice and Performances of Manufacturing Firms: An empirical study of RFID and VMI 4. Logistics strategy, organizational structure, and logistics information technology: Organization performance of manufacturing firms 5. Efficiency of Standalone Health Insurance Companies: Evaluating Evidence from India 6. Risk perceptions and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in emerging economies: A Country level Perspective 7. Humanitarian Relief Logistics Management: Multi objective Modeling and Optimization Techniques 8. Implementing Artificial Intelligence Framework: Case study of a retail Bank 9. Inland infrastructure investment & Passenger Transport: Exploring Connections 10. Developing a Sustainable Accounting Reporting Adoption Framework: A study on Indian Cement Industry 11. Effectiveness of the Supply Management Strategy: A Buyer Firm - Supply Management Orientation 12. Lean thinking for domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers in emerging markets: The case of Amipharma in Sudan 13. Green Supply Chain Management: Attaining Sustainable Competitive Advantage 14. Working Capital Minded Supply Chain and Procurement Management in Manufacturing Operations. Index.
Avinash K Shrivastava is Assistant Professor at the International Management Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Sudhir Rana is Associate Professor in the College of Healthcare Management and Economics at the Gulf Medical University, Ajman, UAE.
