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Decision making theories and practices from analysis to strategy

"This book is a definitive focus on analytical strategic decision-making, presenting sophisticated tools and methodologies developed by researchers and vendors to improve decision making for business strategy"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Tavana, Madjid, 1957-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
Subjects:
Decision making.
Strategic planning.
Data mining
Decision analysis
Decision making concepts
Decision making techniques
Decision support systems
Game theory
Inventory management
Quality control
Risk analysis
Risk management
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Strategy as action: from porter to anti-porter / Milan Zeleny
  • 2. Using decision sciences to enhance entrepreneurial foresight: the comprehensive situation mapping approach / William Acar, Sergey Anokhin, Marvin D. Troutt
  • 3. Management theory: a systems perspective on understanding management practice and management behavior / John Davies
  • 4. Toward understanding ethical decision making: a redefined measure of intent to act ethically / Jennie Johnson, Tom Coyle
  • 5. From childhood poverty to catfish: a conceptual participatory modelling framework for strategic decision making / France Cheong, Brian Corbitt
  • 6. Fuzzy judgments and fuzzy sets / Thomas L. Saaty, Liem T. Tran
  • 7. Investigating strategic alternatives for improving service in an inland waterway transportation system / L. Douglas Smith, Robert M. Nauss
  • 8. Testing for overreaction and return continuations in stock price index returns / Nathan Lael Joseph, Khelifa Mazouz
  • 9. Overcoming liability of foreignness: an analysis of early foreign investment in China / Haiyang Chen, Michael Y. Hu, G. Peter Zhang
  • 10. Thinking in terms of design decisions when developing maturity models / Tobias Mettler
  • 11. A comparison of pairs, triads and quads in multi-attribute decision making / Charalambos L. Iacovou, Larry Shirland, Ronald Thompson
  • 12. The impact of agile methodologies on the quality of information systems: factors shaping strategic adoption of agile practices / Kenneth E. Kendall, Sue Kong, Julie E. Kendall
  • 13. Strategic information systems planning (SISP): an empirical evaluation of adoption of formal approaches to SISP in Australian organizations / Zijad Pita, France Cheong, Brian Corbitt
  • 14. A hybrid multiple criteria decision making technique for prioritizing equipments / Sarojini Jajimoggala, V. V. S. Kesava Rao, Satyanarayana Beela
  • 15. Demonstrating and communicating the value of nuclear decommissioning to society / Mark Wareing
  • 16. Linear programming approaches for multiple-class discriminant and classification analysis / Minghe Sun
  • 17. Meeting correlated spare part demands with optimal transshipments / Nagihan Çömez, Kathryn E. Stecke, Metin Çakanyildirim
  • 18. The traveling salesman problem, the vehicle routing problem, and their impact on combinatorial optimization / Gilbert Laporte
  • 19. Identifying critical success factors for supply chain excellence / Chinho Lin ... [et al.]
  • 20. Knowledge sharing in supply chain / Mian M. Ajmal, Yohanes Kristianto.

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