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Author Mir Artigues, Pere.

Title Funds, flows, and time : an alternative approach to the microeconomic analysis of productive activities / Pere Mir-Artigues, Josep González-Calvet
Published Berlin ; London : Springer, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Contents -- 1 Anatomy of the production process -- 1.1 Economic models of productive activities -- 1.2 Basics of the funds and flows model -- 1.2.1 Funds and flows -- 1.2.2 Self-reproductive goods -- 1.2.3 Stocks and services -- 1.3 Temporal components of the production process -- 1.4 The table of productive elements -- 1.4.1 Applied experiences -- 1.5 Representation of the elements of the production process -- 1.6 General properties of the elementary process -- 1.6.1 Divisibility -- 1.6.2 Homogeneity -- 1.6.3 Fragmentability -- 1.7 Limitations of the model -- 2 Productive deployments of elementary processes -- 2.1 Sequential production -- 2.1.1 Changing the sequential process -- 2.2 Parallel production -- 2.2.1 Parallel process with rigid time schedule -- 2.2.2 Non-rigid parallel activation -- 2.2.3 Parallel vs. functional process -- 2.3 Line production process -- 2.3.1 Line vs. parallel deployment -- 2.3.2 The Factory System -- 2.3.3 Forms of line manufacturing -- 2.3.4 Jumbled production flow -- 2.3.5 Batch production and the flexible manufacturing system -- 2.3.6 The moving assembly line -- 2.3.7 Continuous-flow process -- 3 Characteristics of line process -- 3.1 General conditions for line deployment -- 3.1.1 The problem and its generalisation -- 3.1.2 Line deployment and breakdown of the elementary process -- 3.2 Optimising the timing of the line process -- 3.2.1 Balancing automated lines -- 3.2.2 The line process and the specialisation of funds -- 3.3 The scale of the line process -- 3.3.1 Expanding the scale of production -- 3.3.2 Work teams and the pace of production -- 3.3.3 Synchronising the timing of the production process -- 3.3.4 Changing the production process -- 3.4 Indivisible funds -- 3.5 The production process and its size -- 4 The fund-flow model and the production function -- 4.1 The concept of production function -- 4.2 The process in line and the production function -- 5 The fund-flow model and service activities -- 5.1 Characterization of services -- 5.2 Modelling of transport operations -- 5.3 Fund-flow analysis of telecommunications -- 6 Costs -- 6.1 Cost and the deployment of the process -- 6.2 The cost and pace of production -- 6.3 Time efficiency and funds -- 6.4 Short-term plant costs and price determination -- 6.4.1 Cost and overtime -- 6.4.2 Cost and shifts -- 6.5 Economies of scale and indivisible funds -- 6.6 Cost and flexibility -- 6.7 Cost in services -- 6.8 Costs in software production -- 6.8.1 Costs of producing and reproducing software -- 6.8.2 Expanding the model of software costing -- 7 References -- Index -- Last Page
Summary "This book deals with concepts of microeconomic production theory, using the fund-flow model of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen as a basic reference. This long-neglected model allows for a representation of productive operations that incorporates the time dimension and can be easily accommodated to empirical application."--Jacket
Analysis economie
economics
bedrijfswetenschap
management science
microeconomics
logistiek
logistics
Management studies, Business Administration, Organizational Science (General)
Economics (General)
Management, bedrijfskunde, organisatiekunde (algemeen)
Economie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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In Springer e-books
Subject Production (Economic theory)
Microeconomics.
Flow of funds.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Microeconomics.
Microeconomics.
Flow of funds.
Production (Economic theory)
Affaires.
Science économique.
Economie de l'entreprise.
Flow of funds
Microeconomics
Production (Economic theory)
Form Electronic book
Author González Calvet, Josep.
ISBN 9783540712916
3540712917
9783540712909
3540712909
6610937451
9786610937455