Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Author: Ershi Qi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1168
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642400639

The International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is sponsored by the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institution, CMES, which is the only national-level academic society for Industrial Engineering. The conference is held annually as the major event in this arena. Being the largest and the most authoritative international academic conference held in China, it provides an academic platform for experts and entrepreneurs in the areas of international industrial engineering and management to exchange their research findings. Many experts in various fields from China and around the world gather together at the conference to review, exchange, summarize and promote their achievements in the fields of industrial engineering and engineering management. For example, some experts pay special attention to the current state of the application of related techniques in China as well as their future prospects, such as green product design, quality control and management, supply chain and logistics management to address the need for, amongst other things low-carbon, energy-saving and emission-reduction. They also offer opinions on the outlook for the development of related techniques. The proceedings offers impressive methods and concrete applications for experts from colleges and universities, research institutions and enterprises who are engaged in theoretical research into industrial engineering and engineering management and its applications. As all the papers are of great value from both an academic and a practical point of view, they also provide research data for international scholars who are investigating Chinese style enterprises and engineering management.

Social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation

Social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation
Author: Ben Jann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3110470691

The question of how cooperation and social order can evolve from a Hobbesian state of nature of a “war of all against all” has always been at the core of social scientific inquiry. Social dilemmas are the main analytical paradigm used by social scientists to explain competition, cooperation, and conflict in human groups. The formal analysis of social dilemmas allows for identifying the conditions under which cooperation evolves or unravels. This knowledge informs the design of institutions that promote cooperative behavior. Yet to gain practical relevance in policymaking and institutional design, predictions derived from the analysis of social dilemmas must be put to an empirical test. The collection of articles in this book gives an overview of state-of-the-art research on social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation. It covers theoretical contributions and offers a broad range of examples on how theoretical insights can be empirically verified and applied to cooperation problems in everyday life. By bringing together a group of distinguished scholars, the book fills an important gap in sociological scholarship and addresses some of the most interesting questions of human sociality.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies

Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies
Author: Tor Eriksson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2023-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800377541

This authoritative Elgar Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of social scientific knowledge on labour.

Rationality in Social Science

Rationality in Social Science
Author: Ivar Krumpal
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 365833536X

The concept of rationality and its significance for theory and empirical research in social science are key topics of scholarly discussion. In the tradition of an analytical as well as empirical approach in social science, this volume assembles novel contributions on methodological foundations and basic assumptions of theories of rational choice. The volume highlights the use of rational choice assumptions for research on fundamental problems in social theory such as the emergence, dynamics, and effects of social norms and the conditions for cooperation and prosociality.

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution
Author: Gary E. Bolton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199730857

Individuals, groups, and societies all experience and resolve conflict. In this handbook, scholars from multiple disciplines offer perspectives on the current state and future challenges in negotiation and conflict resolution. This confluence of research perspectives will identify further synergies and advances in our understanding of conflict resolution.

Methods in Experimental Economics

Methods in Experimental Economics
Author: Joachim Weimann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-07-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319933639

This textbook provides a hands-on and intuitive overview of the methodological foundations of experimental economics. Experimental economic research has been an integral part of economic science for quite some time and is gaining more and more attention in related disciplines. The book addresses the design and execution of experiments, the evaluation of experimental data and the equipment of an experimental laboratory. It illustrates the challenges involved in designing and conducting experiments and helps the reader to address them in practice.

Evolutionary Criminology and Cooperation

Evolutionary Criminology and Cooperation
Author: Evelyn Svingen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2023-07-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031362756

This book develops an evolutionary theory of crime. Both evolutionary theory and neurocriminology are growing fields that are attracting more and more interest for criminologists and wider fields alike. This book summarises important readings that relate to retribution and punishment and presents some neurocriminological findings. In addition, the book introduces a new methodology for the study of crime: a game theory experiment adapted from the field of behavioural economics. Overall, the book synthesises the key crime literature, presents a new theory of crime in a new field of evolutionary criminology and the methodology to study it, and provides empirical results in support of the theory. For any evolutionary and neuroscientist interested in deviance, this book offers a new model which is testable using more complex methods such as MRI scanners and survival simulations.

Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games

Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games
Author: Colin Camerer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN:

Experimental games turned out to be remarkably productive tools for examining the nature of social preferences and social norms. This paper describes the methods and tools of experimental gametheory and provides a selection of games that have been useful. We also discuss the role of evolutionary explanations and of social preference theory in organizing the data in a coherent way.