Managing Complexity: Challenges for Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Looking at the Future of Industrial Engineering in Europe....Pages 3-17
A “Collaborative Me” Crossroad: Individual Beliefs and the Adoption of Corporate Blogs....Pages 19-26
Towards Strategic Project Management....Pages 27-33
The Impact of Innovation Management Techniques on Radical Innovation: An Empirical Study....Pages 35-42
The Logical Framework Approach and Worker Commitment....Pages 43-49
New Technologies and Entrepreneurial Intention....Pages 51-57
Return of Equity Issues in the Spanish Stock Market from the Investor’s Perspective, During the 1997–2012 Period....Pages 59-66
Sustainable Balanced Scorecard: Practical Application to a Services Company....Pages 67-75
Predisposition of Workers to Share Knowledge: An Empirical Study....Pages 77-83
The M.A.G. Factor. Management, Administration and Guidance. Where and How Much MAG Does Each Project Deserve and Need? A New, Original Assessment and Scoring System....Pages 85-92
Information Capability in Basque Country Quality Award Winners....Pages 93-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
A Model of Makespan Flow-Shop Scheduling Under Ergonomic Requirements....Pages 105-112
A MILP Event Based Formulation for a Real-world Multimode RCSP with Generalized Temporal Constraints....Pages 113-120
NTIGen: A Software for Generating Nissan Based Instances for Time and Space Assembly Line Balancing....Pages 121-128
Appropriate Work Design in Lean Production Systems....Pages 129-137
Two Simple Constructive algorithms for the Distributed Assembly Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem....Pages 139-145
Applications of the Lagrangian Relaxation Method to Operations Scheduling....Pages 147-153
Toward Various Exact Modeling the Job Shop Scheduling Problem for Minimizing Total Weighted Tardiness....Pages 155-163
Set-up Continuity in Tactical Planning of Semi-Continuous Industrial Processes....Pages 165-173
Estimating Costs in the EOQ Formula....Pages 175-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Order Promising Process for Supply Chains with Lack of Homogeneity in the Product....Pages 185-192
Modeling the Master Plan for Supply Chains with Lack of Homogeneity in the Products....Pages 193-200
Packaging Logistics. A Case Study in Dairy Sector....Pages 201-208
Best Practices in Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Literature Review....Pages 209-216
Supplier Evaluation and Selection: A Review of the literature since 2007....Pages 217-223
Logistic Management Employing Tabu Search and Neural Network Algorithms: A Case Study....Pages 225-231
Multiagent Model for Supply Chain Management....Pages 233-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Revisiting the SEC Classification Framework in Traditional and Electronic Commerce....Pages 243-250
A Roadmap to Establish Collaboration Among SMEs Belonging to Non-Hierarchical Networks....Pages 251-260
Incorporating the Work Pace Concept into the MMSP-W ....Pages 261-268
Applying the LEGOstics concept in formal education at Technical University of Cartagena....Pages 269-276
Neural Network Application for Risk Factors Estimation in Manufacturing Accidents....Pages 277-283
A New Constructive Heuristic for the Fm|block|ΣT....Pages 285-291
Applying Cluster Analysis to Renewable Energy Emergent Sector at Local Level....Pages 293-300
How Organizational Cybernetics can Help to Organize Debates on Complex Issues....Pages 301-308
Agent-Based Modelling and Archaeological Complexity....Pages 309-316
Complex Networks Applied to Communication Management in Emergency Crisis....Pages 317-324
Localization Based on Business Interactions Through a Simulated Annealing Algorithm....Pages 325-331
Methodology for the Strategic Capacity Planning in Universities....Pages 333-340