Industrial organization and management / James L. Riggs

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. American Industry -- Chapter 2. Internal Organization -- Chapter 3. Operations Management -- Chapter Industrial Risk and Forecasting -- Chapter 5. Financing the Industrial Enterprise -- Chapter 6. Product Research and Development -- Chapter 8. Production Planning -- Chapter 9. Physical Facilities: Plant Location and Buildings -- Chapter 10.Physical Facilities : Plant Equipment, Layout, and Automation -- Chapter 11. Production Control: Routing and Scheduling -- Chapter 12. Production Control: Dispatching and Follow-up -- Chapter 13. Materials Control: Procurement and External Transportation -- Chapter 14. Materials Control: Inventories and Internal Transportation -- Chapter 15. Quality Control -- Chapter 16. Plant Engineering -- Chapter 17. Application Improvement -- Chapter 19. Industrial-relations Principles -- Chapter 20. Industrial Training.

Hundreds of thousands of students have been exposed to the previous four editions of this text. The message carried by this reception is that the content and coverage appeal to professors and practitioners. The intent of the fifth edition is to retain the basic characteristics of previous editions while adding revisions aimed at increased usefulness and completeness. Changes are of three types: (1) general updating of facts and figures to record events that have transpired since the last edition, (2) structural variations such as the addition of chapter digests and review questions to direct studies, and (3) new material to introduce modern quantitative methods of management and to emphasize recent social environmental concerns. Of equal importance, changes have not subverted the introductory nature nor the breadth of presentation. The book remains a descriptive survey of the strategic factors affecting the total industrial organization and the tactical considerations applicable to day-to-day management.