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Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 2: From Chaos to Contradiction, 1957–1972 (Palgrave Debates in Business History)
by Philip ScrantonThis book aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary), within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture, infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry through later reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant consumer goods. It provides hundreds of grounded, granular stories for reflection, as reported by actors and direct observers, ranging from innovation and improvisation to obstruction, failure, and fraud. Further, it offers an otherwise-unobtainable close encounter with another world, familiar in some respects while amazingly peculiar in others.The social history of enterprise and work in postwar Central European nations “building socialism” has long been underdeveloped. Through extensive macro-level research on planning and policy in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Bloc countries, a grand narrative has been framed: reconstruction and breakneck industrialization under Soviet tutelage; then eventual mismanagement, stagnation and crisis, leading to collapse. This book seeks to explore what socialism actually looked like to those sustaining (or enduring} it as they faced forward into an unknowable future, to assess how and where it did (or didn’t) work, and to recount how ordinary people responded to its opportunities and constraints. This study will appeal to readers interested in a understanding how businesses worked day-to-day in a planned economy, how enterprise practices and technological strategies shifted during the first postwar generation, how novice managers and technicians emerged during rapid industrialization, how peasants learned to farm cooperatively, how organizations improvised and adapted, how political purity and practical expertise contended for control, and how the controversies and convulsions of the postwar decades shaped a deeply flawed project to “build socialism.”
Business Practices in Southeast Asia: An interdisciplinary analysis of theravada Buddhist countries (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)
by Scott A. HipsherThis is an international business study of Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the book examines business practices within a political, cultural, economic and religious context. It highlights those cultural and historical ties of the region which are shared because of a common religion. In analysing business environments, economics and government practices across the region, the book provides a deeper understanding of the influence of cultural values on work practices in Southeast Asia. The author first offers an overview of the history of the region and the nature and guiding principles of Theravada Buddhism. The next sections of the book present the history and the business and economic environment of the four countries in Southeast Asia, along with some relevant case studies of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar/Burma and Thailand. The book analyses business strategies and practices, management and marketing issues as well as the characteristics of companies. The last part considers the political environment of the four countries and hints at future trends and developments. The book offers a framework for working in the region, and provides valuable insights into this unique business environment, which is significantly different from the Western context. Filling a gap in existing literature, this book provides an accessible study of actual business practices in Southeast Asia.
Business Principles and Management
by James L. Burrow Brad Kleindl Kenneth E. EverardBUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND MANAGEMENT 12E provides an introduction to business management concepts and principles in a realistic, investigative, and enriching manner. Business Operations are approached from the entrepreneurial and management perspective. All the functions of business management are covered extensively, including the use of technology and communication as tools of business. Explore the global dimension of business and possible career opportunities.
Business Principles and Management (10th Edition)
by Kenneth E. Everard Jim BurrowBusiness Principles and Management will help your students meet the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly evolving business world. The topics students need to know to manage and operate a business, finance, marketing, communications, human resources, and more are all incorporated. This text builds a solid foundation of established principles and practices, then shows students how to apply these principles and practices in the dynamic business world.
Business Principles and Management (11th edition)
by James L. Burrow Kenneth E. EverardBusiness Principles and Management has combined new technology information with the sound fundamental topics needed to manage and operate a successful business. Finance, marketing, communications, and human resources are just some of the topics explored. Updated content, computer applications, and Internet activities bring the world of business into your classroom.
Business Principles for Landscape Contracting
by Steven CohanBusiness Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career. Appealing to students and professionals alike, it will build your knowledge of financial management tools and enable you to relate their applications to real-life business scenarios. Focusing on the importance of proactive financial management, the book serves as a primer for students in landscape architecture, contracting, and management courses and entrepreneurs within the landscape industry preparing to use business principles in practice. Topics covered include: Financial management and accountability Budget development Profitable pricing and estimating Project management Creating a lean culture Personnel management and employee productivity Professional development Economic sustainability.
Business Problem-Solving and Strategy: Manga for Success (Manga for Success)
by Takayuki Kito Keisuke YamabeA FUN AND APPROACHABLE WAY TO LEARN IMPORTANT BUSINESS PRINCIPLES Do you want to improve your business performance? Or are you looking for a basic understanding of business strategy? Whatever your reason for picking up this book, Business Problem-Solving and Strategy: Manga For Success makes business strategy concepts easy to understand using practical examples and situations. You’ll read about: Important business analysis tools like SWOT analysis and issue analysis Strategic option assessment Developing and executing a strategy for any business situation The story follows Kazumi who takes over operations at her father’s confectionery company. With the help of her mentor, Business Planning Manager Takeda, she formulates a viable plan for turning the business around, building trust among key stakeholders, and successfully convincing the CEO to implement the plan companywide. With this approachable book, you’ll quickly grasp business analysis topics and have fun learning how to apply them in the real world. Find out why the Manga For Success series—now available in English for the first time—is so popular in Japan, Korea, and beyond.
Business Process Analytics: Modeling, Simulation and Design (Textbooks in Mathematics)
by Manuel Laguna Johan MarklundThe fourth edition of this widely used textbook offers a new perspective. Previously titled Business Process Modeling, Simulation and Design, as the new title suggests, this book is about analytical business process modeling and design. However, this new edition introduces analytics to the title and to the presentation.The main objective of this book is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the multitude of analytical tools that can be used to model, analyze, understand, and ultimately design business processes.The most flexible and powerful of these tools, although not always the most appropriate, is discrete-event simulation. The wide range of approaches covered in this book include graphical flowcharting tools, deterministic models for cycle time analysis and capacity decisions, and analytical queuing methods, as well as machine learning.The authors focus on business processes as opposed to just manufacturing processes or general operations management problems and emphasize on simulation modeling using state-of-the-art commercial simulation software.Business Process Analytics: Modeling, Simulation, and Design can be thought of as a hybrid between traditional books on process management, operations management, and simulation. The growing interest in simulation-based tools suggests that an understanding of simulation modeling, its potential as well as its limitations for analyzing and designing processes, is of key importance to students looking for a future career in operations management.Changes from the previous edition include the following: New section on data-driven process improvement (with data visualization) Added a subsection of control charts to the 6-sigma section Replaced business process reengineering with business process management Updated all text, figures, examples, and exercises to ExtendSim10 (current version) More coverage on design of experiments More coverage of machine learning and neural networks
Business Process Automation with ProcessMaker 3.1: A Beginner’s Guide
by Dipo MajekodunmiUse this practical, hands-on guide to get started with ProcessMaker. The book provides clear steps for you to walk through and set up ProcessMaker on your own system and make processes run faster and smarter. You will model and build a complete business process for requesting, approving, and reporting expenses. In the course of building the process, you will understand: The Workflow Designer for modeling business processes using BPMN 2. 0 The Dynaform Designer for creating responsive HTML forms Input and Output documents for capturing supporting documents for business processes and generating standardized documents from the data captured in a process Triggers for implementing custom business logic and extending ProcessMaker functionality What You'll Learn Send email notifications and add comments to cases Build complex routing rules Manage users and their permissions Deploy ProcessMaker to a cloud server Configure and use the ProcessMaker mobile app Who This Book Is For Business analysts, programmers, and professionals in all industries (e. g. , higher education, finance and insurance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications)
Business Process Crowdsourcing: Concept, Ontology And Decision Support (Progress in IS)
by Nguyen Hoang ThuanThis book conceptualises and develops crowdsourcing as an organisational business process. It argues that although for many organisations crowdsourcing still implies an immature one-off endeavour, when developed to a more repeatable business process it can harness innovation and agility. The book offers a process model to guide organisations towards the establishment of business process crowdsourcing (BPC), and empirically showcases and evaluates the model using two current major crowdsourcing projects. In order to consolidate the domain knowledge, the BPC model is turned into a heavyweight ontology capturing the concepts, hierarchical relationships and decision-making relationships necessary to establish crowdsourcing as a business process in an organisation. Lastly, based on the ontology it presents a decision tool that provides advice on making informed decisions about the performance of business process crowdsourcing activities.
Business Process Design, Management, And Improvement: Connecting Process And Strategy For Competitive Advantage
by Willbann TerpeningText for Business Process Management courses for upper level business students or MBA's
Business Process Management
by John JestonBusiness Process Management, a huge bestseller, has helped thousands of leaders and BPM practitioners successfully implement BPM projects, enabling them to add measurable value to their organizations. The book’s runaway success can be attributed partly to its overview of all major useful frameworks (such as LEAN and Six Sigma) without over-investment in one over another, and a unique emphasis on BPM’s interrelationship with organizational management, culture and leadership—BPM is about people as much as processes. Its common-sense approach teaches how BPM must be well-integrated across an entire business if it’s to be successful: augmented and aligned with other management disciplines. This highly anticipated third edition brings Jeston and Nelis’ practicable frameworks and solutions up-to-date with the latest developments in BPM, including the application of the frameworks to value-driven BPM. This thoroughly revised and updated new edition includes: • Enhanced pedagogy to help students learn and tutors use the book for their classes: now includes learning outcomes, chapter topics, learning objectives, highlighted key points, chapter summaries, critical discussion points and self-test questions • New and revised case studies throughout • New chapters on questions that have become more crucial since the second edition’s publication: How should we start—top-down or bottom-up? Should we be customercentric? How does BPM link to today’s most pertinent management and technology issues? What are the critical success factors? • Due to popular demand, a new and expanded section on IT in BPM • A brand new companion website including slides and assignment answers!
Business Process Management Cases Vol. 3: Implementation in Practice
by Jan Vom Brocke Michael Rosemann Jan MendlingBusiness Process Management (BPM) is at a pivotal moment as new opportunities and demands emerge. On the one side, Artificial Intelligence and process mining facilitate entirely new process design and analysis options. On the other hand, organizations are tasked to ensure their business processes are also sustainable, responsible and explainable. In light of this fast moving context, insights into the actual practice of BPM have become indispensable points of reference. The BPM Cases Volume 3 adds 16 new cases to the existing 53 cases from Volumes 1 and 2, bringing the case collection to a total of 69 cases from many well-known organizations across industries and around the world. The focus of Volume 3 is on the return on BPM, its operationalization in light of constraints (e.g., data inaccuracies), scaling BPM across an organization and how to blend BPM into unique cultural settings. The cases show among others how to apply process mining to generate business value and how data-led BPM ensures evidence-based ways to manage processes.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM 2022 Forum, Münster, Germany, September 11–16, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #458)
by Stefanie Rinderle-Ma Remco Dijkman Claudio Di Ciccio Adela del Río OrtegaThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 20th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2022, which took place in Münster, Germany, in September 2022. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference. The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: modeling and design; process mining; and predictive process monitoring.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM 2023 Forum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 11–15, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #490)
by Andrea Burattin Shazia Sadiq Chiara Di Francescomarino Christian JanieschThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2023. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference.The 23 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 151 submissions to the conference. The papers were organized in research tracks on foundations, engineering, and management.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM 2024 Forum, Krakow, Poland, September 1–6, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #526)
by Michael Rosemann Andrea Marrella Manuel Resinas Mieke JansThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 22nd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2024, which took place in Krakow, Poland, in September 2024. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference. The 21 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 144 submissions to the conference. The papers were organized in research tracks on foundations, engineering, and management.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM 2025 Forum, Seville, Spain, August 31 – September 5, 2025, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #564)
by Hajo A. Reijers Cristina Cabanillas Arik Senderovich Irene VanderfeestenThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 23rd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2025, which took place in Seville, Spain, during September 2025. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers cover a diverse and timely set of topics, reflecting the evolving socio-technical and AI-enhanced landscape of BPM. They explore themes such as the use of large language models in process monitoring and predictive analytics, RPA-induced technostress, blockchain-based compliance and documentation systems, process similarity and fairness in decision making, as well as new methods for model orchestration and simulation. The 23 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 132 submissions to the conference. They were organized in research tracks on foundations, engineering, and management.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM Forum 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 18-22, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #260)
by Oscar Pastor Marcello La Rosa Peter LoosThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum from the International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2016, held in Rio de Janeiro, September 2016. The BPM Forum aims at gathering papers that showcase fresh ideas and emerging topics in BPM. They have to demonstrate substantial potential for stimulating interesting discussions, even if they are not yet completely matured. This way, 13 full papers were selected from 106 submissions, where each paper was reviewed by four PC members and by one Senior PC member who moderated the discussion and wrote the meta-review. The selected papers in this volume cover topics related to process modeling, process execution and management aspects of the BPM discipline.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM Forum 2017, Barcelona, Spain, September 10-15, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #297)
by Josep Carmona, Gregor Engels and Akhil KumarThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum from the International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, held in Barcelona, Spain, September 2017. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference. The volume contains 11 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. Each paper was reviewed by a team comprising of a senior PC and four regular PC members who engage in a discussion phase after the initial reviews were prepared. The authors eventually receive four review reports, and a meta-review that summarizes the reviews and the discussion. The selected papers cover topics related to process models and metrics, mining and compliance, and to other innovative ideas such as gamification, smart devices and digital innovation as far as they pertain to BPM.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM Forum 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia, September 9-14, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #329)
by Jan Vom Brocke Mathias Weske Marco Montali Ingo WeberThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held during the 16th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2018, which took place in Sydney, Australia, in September 2018. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 113 submissions. They were organized according to the tracks of the conference: foundations; engineering; management.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM Forum 2019, Vienna, Austria, September 1–6, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #360)
by Thomas Hildebrandt Jan Mendling Maximilian Röglinger Boudewijn F. van DongenThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held during the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, which took place in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference. The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 115 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: specification; execution; analytics; and management.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM Forum 2020, Seville, Spain, September 13–18, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #392)
by Jörg Becker Marlon Dumas Chiara Ghidini Dirk FahlandThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum of the 18th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2020, which was planned to take place in Seville, Spain, in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference took place virtually. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference. The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 125 submissions to the main conference. They were organized in topical sections named: process modeling; process mining; predictions and recommendations; BPM adoption and maturity; and standardization, change, and handoffs.
Business Process Management Systems: Strategy and Implementation
by James F. ChangWith a focus on strategy and implementation, James Chang discusses business management practices and the technology that enables them. He analyzes the history of process management practices and demonstrates that BPM practices are a synthesis of radical change and continuous change practices. The book is relevant to both business and IT professi
Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2014 International Workshops, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 7-8, 2014, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #202)
by Jan Mendling Fabiana FournierThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ten international workshops held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2014, in September 2014. The ten workshops comprised Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth 2014), Security in Business Processes (SBP 2014), Process Model Collections: Management and Reuse (PMC-MR 2014), Business Processes in Collective Adaptive Systems (BPCAS 2014), Data- and Artifact-centric BPM (DAB 2014), Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2014), Business Process Management in the Cloud (BPMC 2014), Theory and Applications of Process Visualization (TaProViz 2014), Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2 2014) and Decision Mining and Modeling for Business Processes (DeMiMoP 2014). The 38 revised full and eight short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. In addition, six short papers resulting from the Doctoral Consortium at BPM 2014 are included in this book.
Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2015, 13th International Workshops, Innsbruck, Austria, August 31 – September 3, 2015, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #256)
by Manfred Reichert Hajo A. ReijersThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ten international workshops held in Innsbruck, Austria, in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2015, in September 2015. The seven workshops comprised Adaptive Case Management and other Non-workflow Approaches to BPM (AdaptiveCM 2015), Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2015), Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2 2015), Data- and Artifact-centric BPM (DAB 2015), Decision Mining and Modeling for Business Processes (DeMiMoP 2015), Process Engineering (IWPE 2015), and Theory and Applications of Process Visualization (TaProViz 2015). The 42 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. In addition, four short papers and one keynote (from TAProViz) are also included in this book.