Labor and Supply Chain Networks

Anna Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies and was appointed to this endowed chaired professorship in the Department of Operations and Information Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on April 14, 2021. Prior to that, she was the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management, since 1998. She is also the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization at UMass Amherst. She is an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst. She received her AB, ScB, ScM, and PhD degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She devotes her career to education and research that combines operations research / management science, engineering, and economics. Her focus is the applied and theoretical aspects of network systems, particularly in the areas of transportation and logistics, critical infrastructure, and in economics and finance. She has authored or co-authored 12 other books, more than 200 refereed journal articles and over 50 book chapters. In 2020, Professor Anna Nagurney was awarded the Harold Larnder Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society and was selected to be a 2022 IFORS Distinguished Lecturer.

Preface.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- 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.

"The motivation for this book is provided by the fact that workers are essential to the supply chain networks that form the critical infrastructure for the functioning of the economies. ... The model captures the phases of disaster preparedness and response, and both demand and cost uncertainty. The numerical examples are inspired by the need for humanitarian relief because of the refugee crises due to real-world events." (Doina Carp, zbMATH 1523.90001, 2023)

“The motivation for this book is provided by the fact that workers are essential to the supply chain networks that form the critical infrastructure for the functioning of the economies. … The model captures the phases of disaster preparedness and response, and both demand and cost uncertainty. The numerical examples are inspired by the need for humanitarian relief because of the refugee crises due to real-world events.” (Doina Carp, zbMATH 1523.90001, 2023)