Recommended Reading for Semester 1 2009/2010 Modules

Please refer to the ‘Course Structure’ supplied within this pack to identify the modules that are available on your programmes of study.

Please also note that students will receive the most up to date reading lists at the beginning of the each semester, but below are some recommended texts for a number of modules.

N1DC11 Supply Chain Planning and Management

Books:

There are many general textbooks in Production and Operations Management. They all contain chapters on the topics covered in the module- forecasting, inventory control, planning and control, MRP etc. Many introductory textbooks in Management Science/Operational Research also contain chapters on these topics.

The following book is the main module text. Students will benefit highly from having access to a copy (studying just from the handouts is not sufficient).

  • Steven Nahmias: Production and Operations Analysis, 2009, 6th edition, ISBN 978-007-126370-2, Publisher: McGraw-Hill

In addition, a selection of chapters from the following books will be used. (The relevant sections from these books will be made available during the lectures.)

  • Thomas E. Vollmann, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark, F. Robert Jacobs: Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management, 2005, 5th edition, ISBN 007-112133-1, Publisher: McGraw-Hill
  • Richard B. Chase, F. Robert Jacobs, Nicholas J. Aquillano, Operations Management for Competitive Advantage, ISBN 0-07-121555-7, Publisher: McGraw-Hill
  • Daniel Sipper & Robert L. Bulfin, Jr.: Production: Planning, Control and Integration, 1998, ISBN 0-07-115843-X, Publisher: McGraw-Hill

The general texts listed below may also be useful for supplementary reading for all or part of the module:

  • Evans J R (1998) Production Operations Management, 1st ed., West Publishing Company.
  • Krajewski L J, Ritzman L P (2002) Operations Management: strategy and analysis, 6th ed., Prentice-Hall.
  • Schroeder R G (1993) Operations Management: decision making in the operations function,4th ed., McGraw-Hill.
  • Slack N, Chambers S, Johnston R (2001) Operations Management, 3rd ed., Pitman Financial Times/Prentice Hall.
  • Bozarth C C, Handfield R B (2005) Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management, Prentice-Hall.

More specific texts on methods, models, techniques and systems in forecasting, inventory and production management, which may be useful in the assignment work, are:

  • Armstrong J Scott (1978) Long-range Forecasting: From Crystal Ball to Computer, Wiley.
  • Makridakis S, Wheelwright S, Hyndman R J, (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, 3rd ed., John Wiley.
  • Silver E A, Pyke D F, Peterson R, (1998)Inventory management and production planning and scheduling, 3rd ed., Wiley.
  • Fogarty, Blackstone and Hoffman (1991), Production and Inventory Management, 2nd ed., South Western Publishing Co.
  • Luscombe, M (1993) MRPII: integrating the business: a practical guide for manager, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, UK.
  • Scott B (1994), Manufacturing planning systems, McGraw-Hill.
  • Browne J, Harhen J, Shivnan J (1996) Production management systems: an integrated perspective, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley.
  • Sheikh K (2003) Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II): with introduction to ERP, SCM and CRM, McGraw-Hill.

Research papers relating to the various aspects of Planning, Scheduling and Control across the supply chain may be found in the well-known Operations and Production journals and sometimes feature in Harvard Business Review, MITSloan Management Reviewand California Management Review. There are a number of academic research journals in Operations Management and related areas such as Production, Operational Research and Management Science. The following list identifies some of the key journals. Many are available online and all should be available through various abstracting forms (speak to a subject Librarian if you have any difficulties locating journal material).

Operations Management

Journal of Operations Management

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management

International Journal of Production Economics

International Journal of Production Research

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

OR/MS and related areas

Operations Research

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Management Science

European Journal of Operational Research

Interfaces (good for case studies)

O.R. Insight (good for case studies)

Journal of Forecasting

International Journal of Forecasting

Journal of Scheduling (highly mathematical)

Some web sites of interest:

: The Institute of Operations Management their practitioner magazine is called, CONTROL, is a useful source for easily readable practitioner material (some issues available online).

: The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

: The Charted Institute of Purchasing and Supply

/ manufacturing: The Institution of Electrical Engineers (manufacturing and management Divisions – their practitioner journal in manufacturing and management are very high quality material.

The American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS): An important organisation for what’s hot in operations (but little material free online)

Professional bodies (strong lay academic but good material) are INFORMS (US OR/MS Institute)

N1DC15 Project Management 2009/2010

Reading List

Core:

  • Meredith, J.R.and Mantel, S.J. (2009) Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 7th ed., Wiley.

(The 5th and 6th editions are fine and acceptable alternatives)
Web Resource

Alternatives:

  • Mantel, S.J.; Meredith, J.R.;Shafer, S.M.andSutton, M.M. (2008) Project Management in Practice, Wiley, 2008.
  • Mantel, S.J.; Meredith, J.R. and Shafer, S.M. (2005)Core concepts of project management, 2nd ed. Wiley.
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Additional Recommended Reading

  • Burke, R.(2003) Project Management: Planning and Control Techniques / Rory Burke, 4th ed., Wiley.
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  • British Standards Institute.BS 6079-1:2002 Project management. Guide to project management. British Standards Institute.Note:British Standards will be available online.
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  • British Standards Institute.BS 6079-3:2000 Project management. Guide to the management of business related project risk. British Standards Institute.Note:British Standards will be available online.
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  • Lorance, R.B. and Wendling, R.V. (2001) Basic Techniques for Analyzing and Presentation of Cost Risk.Cost Engineering: A Publication of the American Association of Cost Engineers, 43(6), pp. 25-31.
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  • Clark, D.E. (2001) Monte Carlo Analysis: Ten Years of Experience.Cost Engineering: A Publication of the American Association of Cost Engineers, 43(6), pp. 40-45.
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  • Williams, T. (2004) Why Monte Carlo Simulations of Projects can Mislead.Project Management Journal, 35(3), pp. 53-61.
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  • Vaughan Williams, G. (1995) Fast Track Pros and Cons: Considerations for Industrial Projects.Journal of Management in Engineering, 11(5), pp. 24-32.
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  • Lyneis, J.M.; Cooper, K.G. and Els, S.A. (2001) Strategic Management of Complex Projects: A Case Study using System Dynamics.System Dynamics Review, 17(3), pp. 237-260.
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Advanced Reading

  • White, D. and Fortune, J. (2002). Current Practice in Project Management - An Empirical Study.International Journal of Project Management: The Journal of the International Project Management Association, 20(1), pp. 1-11.
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  • Hillson, D. (2003) Using a Risk Breakdown Structure in Project Management.Journal of Facilities Management, 2(1), pp. 85-97.
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  • A G Rodrigues A.G. and Williams, T.M. (1998) System Dynamics in Project Management: Assessing the Impacts of Client Behaviour on Project Performance.The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 49(1), pp. 2-15.

N1DC23- Performance Measurement and Lean Techniques

Reading List 2009/2010

Core texts /
  • The Complete Lean Kit (Learning to See, Seeing The Whole, Creating Level Pull, Creating Continuous Flow, Making Materials Flow, Lean Lexicon), Lean Enterprise Academy (
  • Nicholas, J. (1998) “Competitive Manufacturing Management”.
  • Bicheno, J. (2004) 'The New Lean Toolbox: Towards Fast, Flexible Flow' (3rd ed) Picsie Press, England.
  • Simon (2000), Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, Prentice Hall.

Essential reading /
  • Womack J., Jones D. (1996) Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in your Corporation, Simon & Schuster, New York.
  • Hines P., Taylor D. (2000), Going Lean: A Guide to Implementation, Lean Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff.
  • Kaplan, R. S. , Norton, D. P. (1996) “The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action”

Articles & Case studies /
  • Regani S & Dutta, S (2004), Taiichi Ohno and Toyota Production System, ICFAI case study, 604-070-1, pp1-19.
  • Venables, Mark. (2005), Early Learning Centre, IEE Manufacturing Engineer, Aug/Sept, pp22-25
  • Venables, Mark. (2005), Going for Lean, IEE Manufacturing Engineer, Aug/Sept, pp26-31
  • Harrison, A; Pavitt, J & Alexander J. (2002), “The status of Lean Thinking in UK Lean Aerospace Initiative (UK-LAI) Supply Chains: A survey”, SBAC & EPSRC, pp1-28
  • Lockamy, A & McCormack. (2004), Linking SCOR planning practices to supply chain performance: an exploratory study, International Journal of Production & Operations Management, Vol24, No12, pp1192-1218.
  • Kaplan, RS & Norton, DP. (1992), The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that drive performance, Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb, pp71-79.
  • Kaplan, RS & Norton, DP. (1993), Putting the Balanced Scorecard to work, Harvard Business Review, Sept-Oct, pp134-142.
  • Kaplan, RS & Norton, DP. (1993), Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System, Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb, pp75-85.
  • Rohm, H. A Balancing Act, PERFORM – Performance Measurement in Action, Vol 2, Issue 2, pp 1-8.
  • Ward, A. (2005), Implementing the Balanced Scorecard at Lloyds TSB, Strategic HR Review, Vol 4, issue 3, Mar-April, pp 16-19.
  • Rogers, H; Ghauri, P & Pawar KS. (2005), Measuring International NPD projects: an evaluation process, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol 20, No 2, pp 79-87.
In addition there are number other articles/additional material which provide useful supporting information, these will be provided during the module.
Periodicals /
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Sloan Management Review
  • Journal of Operations Management
  • International Journal of Operations and Production Management

N1DT03Marketing

2009-2010

The main textbook for the module is:

Recommended text:

Kotler, P., Wong V., Saunders, J. & Armstrong, G. (2008), Principles of Marketing, 5th European Edition, Pearson Education Ltd, Harlow.

Other similar textbooks:

Jobber, D. (2005), Principles and Practice of Marketing, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead.

Jobber, D. and Fahy, D. (2006), Foundations of Marketing. 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

(note: if you cannot access the latest edition of these textbooks, the previous edition will suffice).

Textbooks serve to familiarise you with core concepts but you are also expected to read journal articles to obtain a more in-depth understanding of topics covered on the module and to develop a broader understanding of marketing.

- Academic Journals

Additional reading for the module and research for the assignment will necessitate that students conduct their own library searches to access research papers from a range of marketing journals. The following are core journals that report advances in the marketing subject area.

Journal of Marketing

European Journal of Marketing

Journal of Marketing Management

Marketing Intelligence and Planning

International Journal of Research in Marketing

N1DT14 Entrepreneurship and Creativity

2009/10

Formative Reading

The following readings are suggested background texts. These will help familiarise students with the course content and the problem space of entrepreneurship and creativity we will be exploring. A full reading list will be provided at the first course meeting.

Amabile, T, M. (1996). Creativity in Context. Oxford: Westview Press.

Boden, M. A. (2004). The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. 2nd Edition. London:

Routledge.

Casson, M. (2007). Handbook of Entrepreneurship Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Chell, E. (2008). The Entrepreneurial Personality: A Social Construction London, Sage.(Chapters 1-3)

Dorf, R. and T. Byers (2008). Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise McGraw Hill. (Chapters 1-2)

Gartner, W. (1988). "Who is an entrepreneur? Is the Wrong question." American Journal of Small Business(spring): 11-33.

Hargadon, A. and Y. Douglas (2001). "When Innovations meet Institutions: Edison and the Design of the Electric Light." Administrative Science Quarterly, 46(3): 476-501.

Hitt, M., R. Ireland, et al. (2001). "Entrepreneurial Strategies for Wealth Creation." Strategic Management Journal 22(4): 479-91.

Howorth, C., S. Tempest, et al. (2005). "Rethinking Entrepreneurship Methodology and Definitions of the Entrepreneur " Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 12(1): 24-40.

Kirbky, D. (2006). Entrepreneurship. London, McGraw Hill.(Chapters 1-4)

Kirkham, P, Mosey, S. Binks, M. (2009) Ingenuity in practise: A guide to clear thinking.

Lumpkin, G. and B. Lichtenstein (2005). "The role of organizational learning in the opportunity recognition process, ." Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice (July): 451-72.

McGrath, R. (1999). "Falling forward: Real Options Reasoning and Entrepreneurial Failure." Academy of Management Review, 24(1): 13-30.

Miles, M. and J. Covin (2002). "Exploring the Practice of Corporate Venturing: Some common forms and their Organizational Implications." Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice 12(Spring): 21-40.

Minniti, M. and W. Bygrave (2001). "A Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Learning." Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice 22(Spring): 5-16.

Paulus, P. B. & Nijstad, B. A. (2003) (eds). Group Creativity: Innovation through

collaboration. Oxford University Press

Sarasvarthy, S. (2004). "The questions we ask and the questions we care about: reformulating some problems in entrepreneurship research " Journal of Business Venturing, 19(5): 707-717.

Sarasvarthy, S., N. Dew, et al. (2008). "Designing Organizations that Design Environments: Lessons from Entrepreneurial Expertise,." Organization Studies 29(3): 331-350.

Sternberg, R. J. (1999) (ed). Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge University Press.

Ward, T. (2004). "Cognition, Creativity and Entrepreneurship” Journal of Business Venturing 19(1): 173-188.

Zimmerman, M. and G. Zeitz (2002). "Beyond Survival: Achieving New Venture Growth By building Legitimacy." Academy of Management Review 27(3): 414-431.

(MSc Version- N14B27) Research Methods (Qualitative)

Essential Reading

Silverman, D (2007) A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research. London: Sage.

Thorpe R. and Holt, R. (2008) The Sage Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research. London: Sage.

Please purchase both these books – if you buy them together from Blackwell’s Bookshop on Jubilee Campus they are available at a discounted price.

Other useful texts:

Brown, R.B. (2006) Doing Your Dissertation in Business and Management: The Reality of Researching and Writing. London: Sage.

Buchanan, D. & Bryman, A. (2009) Handbook of Organizational Research Methods. London: Sage.

Cassell, C. & Symon, G. (2004) Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research, London, Sage.

Denzin, N.K. & Lincoln, Y.S. (2005) Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (Third Edition). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Denzin, N.K., Lincoln, Y.S. & Smith, L.T. (2008) Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R. & Lowe, A. (2001) Management Research 2nd ed. London: Sage.

Gabriel, Y. (2008) Organizing Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kelemen, M. & Rumens, N. (2008) An Introduction to Critical Management Research. London: Sage.

Moisander, J. & Valtonen, A. (2006) Qualitative Marketing Research: A cultural approach. London: Sage.

Saunders, M., Lewis, P. & Thornhill, A. (2003) Research Methods for Business Students. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall.

Van de Ven, A. (2007) Engaged Scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(N14B28) International Accounting

2009/2010Reading List

  1. Glynn, Murphy, Abraham and Wilkinson (2008) Accounting for Managers, 4th Edition.
  2. Gernon, H. and Meek, G.K. (GM) (2001) Accounting: An International Perspective
  1. 3. Choi, F.D.S. Frost, C.A. and Meek, G.K. (2008), International Accounting
  1. 4. Nobes, C. and Parkers, R. (2008), Comparative International Accounting.

References 3 and 4 may have the 2009 edition out by the time the semester begins.

N14B29 Managing Organisations

Module convenor: Dr. Qi Xu

(see module specification)
People in organisations, Managing organisational processes, Organization theory, and Critical perspectives on managing
Required reading / Texts:
Mullins, L. J. (2006) Essentials of organisational behaviour. FT Prentice Hall.
Wilson, F. M. (2004) Organizational behaviour and work: a critical introduction, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP).
Other essential readings, including case studies, will be provided.
Additional readings (see Module Outline).

Supplementary reading

Textbooks

Textbooks on ‘organisations’ vary widely. Therefore, it may be useful to explore several. They often have a dominant academic or managerial focus; are usually either prescriptive or critical; can be primarily focused on North American workplaces and research; are often rooted in the social science disciplines of psychology or sociology; and differ in their degree of engagement with readers. We favour no particular text, but expect you not to accept any single text as given. As you will appreciate, this is an intellectually challenging module that requires you to demonstrate the ability to analyse, synthesise and offer critique: for example, get into the habit of asking yourself political questions such as ‘in whose interests’? Below is a list of ‘typical’ texts for this subject:

Hatch, M.J. (1997) Organization theory, Oxford: OUP.

Morgan, G. (1986) Images of organization. London: Sage.

Mullins, L. J. (2005) Management and organisational behaviour, 7th edition. Harlow: FT Prentice Hall.

Scott, R. (1992) Organizations: rational, open, and natural systems, 3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Thompson, P. and McHugh, D. (2002) Work organisations: a critical introduction. London: Palgrave.

Weick, K.E. (1979) The social psychology of organizing, 2nd edition. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley.

The students will receive the most up to date reading lists at the beginning of the autumn semester in Sept.

N14G01 Creative Problem Solving

Reading List2009/10

The following texts are indicative of the module and will help familiarise you with its content prior to your arrival. A full reading list will be provided during the first lecture.

Background Reading List

Amabile, T, M. (1996). Creativity in Context. Oxford: Westview Press.

Amabile, T, M., Conti, R., Coon, H., Lazenby, J., & Herron, M (1996). Assessing the work environment for creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 39, 5, 1154-1184

Boden, M. A. (2004). The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge.

Beaney, M. (2005). Imagination and Creativity. Open University Press.

Chell, E (2008) The Entrepreneurial Personality: A Social construction

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1996). Creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery and invention. London: Harper Collins

Dorf, R, C. & Byers, T, H. (2008). Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise. McGraw Hill. 2nd Edition

Hisrich, R, D., Peters, M, P., Shepherd, D, A. (2008) Entrepreneurship. Mcgraw – Hill 7th Edition

Kaufman, J. C. & Sternberg, R. J. eds (2006). The International Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge University Press

Kirkham, P, Mosey, S. Binks, M. (2009) Ingenuity in practise: A guide to clear thinking.

Sternberg, R. J. (1999) (ed). Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge University Press.

Lubart, T. I. (2001). Models of the creative process: Past, present and future. Creativity Research Journal. Vol. 13 No 3 & 4. 295-308

Paulus, P. B. & Nijstad, B. A. (2003) (eds). Group Creativity: Innovation through collaboration. Oxford University Press

Richards, T. (1998). Assessing organisational creativity: An innovative benchmarking approach. International Journal of Innovation Management. 2, 3, 367-382

Sternberg, R. J. (1999) (ed). Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R. J., O’Hara, L. A. & Lubart, T. I. (1997). Creativity as investment. California Management review. 40, 1, 8-21.

Thompson, L. (2003). Improving the creativity of organizational work groups. Academy of Management Executive. 17, 1, 96-111

Thompson, L. & Choi, H. S. (2005). (eds) Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams. LEA

N14080 Financial Reporting

Reading List 2009/2010

1. Global Financial Accounting and Reporting: Principles and Analysis by P. Walton

and W. Aerts, Thomson Learning.

2. Financial Accounting and Reporting by B. Elliott & J. Elliott, Financial Times

Prentice Hall.

3. Interpreting Company Reports and Accounts by G. Holmes, A. Sugden and P. Gee,

Financial Times Prentice Hall.

4. Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation by S. Penman, McGraw-Hill

Higher Education.

(N14081) Research Methods

Reading List 2009/2010

  1. Malhotra Naresh K. (2004), Marketing Research: An Applied Orientation, 5th edition, Pearson Education
  2. Cooper, Donald R. and Pamela S. Schindler (2008), Business Research Methods, 10th edition, McGraw Hill
  3. Hair, J.F., R.E. Anderson, R.L. Tatham and W.C. Black (1998), Multivariate Data Analysis, 5th edition, Pearson Education
  4. Bryman, Alan and Duncan Cramer (2005), Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS: A Guide for Social Scientists, Routledge
  5. Palant, Julie, SPSS Survival Manual, McGraw Hill
  6. Burns, Robert and Burns, Richard, Business Research Methods and Statistics using SPSS, Sage Publications
  7. Field, Andy, Discovering Statistics using SPSS, Sage Publications

N14084 Marketing Management - Reading List