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Defines and describes the research field at the interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management (iFORM), provides examples where operations and finance overlap in meaningful ways, outlines promising research directions, and reduces the entry cost for anyone who would like to explore this new and exciting research field.

Summarises the literature on AI and business model innovation. The hypothesis of the book is that the deployment of AI across an industry creates new mechanisms for value creation and in turn results in new firms generating value in an industry as incumbent firms may no longer be as competitive as in the past - the 'value migration' phenomenon.

Focuses on the battery electric vehicle segment of the automobile industry. The book traces the development of the industry, identifies key decisions by various participants, and analyses these decisions from a platform strategy lens.

Examines three themes: Financing Issues in Supply Chains look into working capital management financing practices; FinTech Innovations for Supply Chains examines business model innovations for supply chain financing; amd Advances in Risk Management of Operational Systems provides state-of-the art thinking on risk issues in supply chain operations.

Examines the impact of service industrialization on employment and wages in the US to understand the forces that drive them; using national income and labor data until 2017 to presents a macroeconomic context for an analysis of employment and wages; and identifies implications of the above for management and public policy.

Reviews the existing literature in operations management on worker productivity and outlines promising areas of research. In contrast to approaches that involve estimating productivity at the national or firm level, the author looks at the individual worker as the atomic unit of analysis in order to examine the drivers that impact worker output.

Explores the operations management (OM) literature in national culture and organisational culture and points the way for increasing the breadth of the OM field by incorporating this perspective. In addition to being a guide for research, this monograph provides substantive examples for teaching the importance of culture in OM.

Presents and integrates various cutting-edge theoretical frameworks and methodologies from the operations management and organisational research literatures to use diverse methodologies in order to help organisations excel in reliability, performance, and innovation.

Presents the state-of-the-art in research thought leadership in supply chain finance and risk management, and contains great expository pieces on how advanced technologies are shaping supply chains and risk management within them. How supply chain finance and risk management can be best taught in classrooms is also covered.

Provides a unique overview of inventory models, from single-item single-echelon models to multi-item multi-echelon models. Rather than starting with inventory models that are tractable from a mathematical point of view, the author starts from the inventory management problem and the modelling challenges to be faced.

Reviews the literature on this topic and presents a framework that synthesizes the factors associated with successful transformational performance improvement. Coverage includes determining and communicating a system-level goal; developing and using system-level measures of performance; and understanding and managing interdependencies.

Shows how RFID has transformed the supply chain over the last decade and examines the manufacturing, logistics and retail aspects of RFID. The authors describe a vision of an "Internet of Things", where each participating object has a digital shadow with related information stored in cyberspace.