Advances in Business and Management Forecasting (Advances in Business and Management Forecasting, 8) - Hardcover

Kenneth D. Lawrence; Ronald Klimberg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857249592 ISBN 13: 9780857249593

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2011

Synopsis

Advances in Business and Management Forecasting is a blind refereed serial publication published on an annual basis. The objective of this research annual is to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to such areas as sales, marketing, and strategic decision making. (An accurate, robust forecast is critical to effective decision making.) It is the hope and direction of the research annual to become an applications and practitioner-oriented publication. The topics will normally include sales and marketing, forecasting, new product forecasting, judgmentally-based forecasting, the application of surveys to forecasting, forecasting for strategic business decisions, improvements in forecasting accuracy, and sales response models. It is both the hope and direction of the editorial board to stimulate the interest of the practitioners of forecasting to methods and techniques that are relevant.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth D. Lawrence - New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Ronald Klimberg - Saint Joseph's University, USA

Review:

US business scholars review the current state of demand forecasting, financial forecasting, health care forecasting, and selected topics in forecasting. Among their topics are removing systematic bias from demand forecasts, a regression analysis to model propane demand in residential sectors, forecasting bank solvency with an emphasis on loan quality, short-term predictions of the total medical costs of California counties, forecasting with information from the future, and prediction markets as a forecasting tool. The anthology is not indexed. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857249592
• ISBN 13: 9780857249593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Kenneth D. Lawrence, Ronald Klimberg