Operations Research for Management

Includes index

This revised and enlarged edition of the book is designed to serve as a textbook for one semester (term) course in operations research at management, engineering, commerce and chartered and cost accountancy courses. The book covers various topics in operations research, with an approach to apply these techniques to business problems. It contains illustrations and problems drawn extensively from different functional areas of management and engineering. To enhance the understanding of the subject by the students belonging to different disciplines, our approach in the book is conceptual rather than mathematical. The book has been written in a simple language and complicated mathematical derivations have been avoided. This book would also be a useful reference to practicing managers/executives, industrial engineers, economic planners and social scientists. The other books by the same authors are: quantitative techniques for managerial decisions (2nd edition) and business statistics published by new age. About the author: g v shenoy is a professor at the institute of rural management, anand. He has a ph.d. Degree in or from bombay university. He has published a number of research articles in professional journals. He has taught quantitative methods, o.r. And management information systems courses at the institute for social and economic change, bangalore; b.k. School of management, ahmedabad; institute of development management, mzumbe. Tanzania. Currently, dr. Shenoy is on a teaching assignment at the school of management, university sains malaysia, penang, malaysia. U. K. Srivastava is a professor at the indian institute of management, ahmedabad. He has a ph.d. Degree in economics from lucknow university and did post-doctoral work at iowa stat