Labor and supply chain networks / Anna Nagurney.
Nagurney, Anna, author.
2022
HD38.5
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Title Labor and supply chain networks / Anna Nagurney.
Author Nagurney, Anna, author.
ISBN 9783031208553 (electronic bk.)
3031208552 (electronic bk.)
9783031208546 (print)
3031208544
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20855-3
Published Cham : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 322 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-20855-3 doi
Call Number HD38.5
Dewey Decimal Classification 658.5
Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly and dramatically demonstrated the importance of supply chains to the functioning of societies and our economies. The discussion in this timely book explores prominent issues concerning supply chain networks and labor. The readership is aimed to include students, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, interested in the wide range of topics presented in these pages. Labor has a particular focus as the driver behind supply chains, whether associated with food products, life-saving medicines and supplies, or high tech products that make innovation possible, just to name a few. The impacts of policy interventions, in the form of wage bounds, and their ramifications, in terms of volume of attracted labor, product prices, product volumes, as well as profits, are explored. Profit-maximizing firms are considered (with relevant associated issues such as waste management in the case of the food sector, for example), but also non-profits, as in blood services, as well as humanitarian organizations engaged in disaster relief. The book is filled with many network figures, graphs, and tables with data, both input and output and includes an appendix that provides the foundations of the underlying mathematical methodologies used. The book offers strong evidence for the need to provide a holistic, system-wide perspective for the modeling, analysis, and solution of supply chain problems with the inclusion of the critical labor resources. A formalism using the prism of supply chain networks, which yields a graphic representation of supply chains, consisting of multiple stakeholders, is constructed. Models that capture the behaviors and interactions of single decision-makers as well as multiple decision-makers engaged in supply chain activities of production, transportation, storage, and distribution, are considered. The models capture many realistic constraints faced by firms today, as they seek to produce and deliver products, while dealing with competition, various constraints on labor, a variety of disruptions, labor shortages, challenges associated with proper wage-determination, plus the computation of optimal investments in labor productivity subject to budget constraints. The book provides prescriptive suggestions in terms of how to ameliorate negative impacts of labor disruptions and demonstrate benefits of appropriate wage determination.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 11, 2023).
Series Springer optimization and its applications ; v. 198. 1931-6836
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783031208546
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I. Labor and supply chains
1. Introduction
2. Perishable food supply chain networks with labor
Optimization of supply chains under different labor constraints
4. Game theory modeling of supply chains and labor disruptions
II. Endogenous wages and productivity investments
5. Wages and labor productivity in supply chains with fixed labor availability on links
6. Wage-dependent labor and supply chain networks
7. Investments in labor productivity - single period model
8. Multiperiod supply chain network investments in labor productivity
III. Advanced supply chain network from profit to non-profit organizations
9. Multitiered supply chain networks with labor
10. International migrant labor and supply chains
11. Labor and blood services
12. Disaster management and labor
Appendix A. Optimization theory, variational inequalities, and game theory
Glossary of notation.

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