Management Decision Making

"Risk or uncertainty assessments are used as aids to decision making in nearly every aspect of business, education, and government. As a follow-up ...

This book provides an overview of the nascent field of “information pooling and group judgmental accuracy.” The contributors to this volume include...

Principles of Risk-Based Decision Making provides managers with the foundation for creating a proactive organizational culture that systematically ...

Written for those interested in the topic of "shared knowledge" in organizations, this edited volume brings together a variety of themes and perspe...

This book takes a fresh and critical look at the leading sources of global risk — terrorism, disease, crime, poverty, environmental damage and othe...

Written for those interested in the topic of "shared knowledge" in organizations, this edited volume brings together a variety of themes and perspe...

First published in 1994. Mission Statements: A Guide to the Corporate and Nonprofit Sectors offers the most exciting opportunities for advancing th...

Based on courses developed by the author over several years, this book provides access to a broad area of research that is not available in separat...

The author covers fourteen tools to help you find the information you need and offers step-by-step instructions for constructing each one. He shows...

The approach known as Diversity Management, is about managing the increasing diversity of issues that confront us. It is a response to the ever gro...

The rise of game theory has made bargaining one of the core issues in economic theory. Written at a theoretical and conceptual level, the book deve...

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles....

Provides an introduction to decision analysis. This book is based upon a number of papers and articles taken from the Operational Research Society...

The corporate university is a whole-organisation endeavour for today, tomorrow and for the future, raising questions about the size and shape of yo...

Despite intense research on decision-making in action, we still know little about when decision-makers rely on deliberate vs. intuitive decision-ma...

We need strategy. The world is changing, the future uncertain. What is required is vision: What might the future bring? Where is our business going...

This book examines the field of behavioral economics and provides insights into the following questions:The book looks at decision making and behav...

Architects and engineers can build models to test their ideas - why not managers? In Game Theory in Management: Modelling Business Decisions and Th...

On the evidence of the authors of Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Unchartered Territory, there is a sea change coming. That ch...

While executives are keen to harness organizational knowledge and improve business performance, the topic of how academics can produce rigorous and...

The field of thinking has undergone a revolution in recent years, opening itself up to new perspectives and applications. The traditional focus on ...

The field of thinking has undergone a revolution in recent years, opening itself up to new perspectives and applications. The traditional focus on ...

In the increasing number of heavily projectized organizations, sustainable, commercial performance depends on their ability to measure and develop ...

What algorithms are tractable depends on the speed of the processor. Given the speed of digital computers, polynomial algorithms are considered tra...

Dozens of books have been published recently on the errors and biases that affect our judgments and choices. Drawing on cognitive science, their le...

Communicating Effectively: Tools for Educational Leaders, second edition, provides a unique perspective for aspiring and practicing educational lea...

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making comprehensively surveys theory and research on organizational decision-making, broadly concei...

Quantitative Methods for Decision Making is a comprehensive guide that provides students with the key techniques and methodology they will need to...

We make decisions, and these decisions make us and our organisations. And in theory, decision-making should be easy: a problem is identified, the d...

This book takes a fresh look at safety decision-making by documenting and examining stories told by front-line managers in three different high-haz...

Customer and Business Analytics: Applied Data Mining for Business Decision Making Using R explains and demonstrates, via the accompanying open-sour...

Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams translates advances by scientific leaders in the relatively new ar...

"Applications of Management Science" is a blind refereed serial publication published on an annual basis. The objective of this research annual is ...

This Handbook presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more ...

This book is the first in the market to treat single- and multi-period risk measures (risk functionals) in a thorough, comprehensive manner. It com...

This book provides a detailed examination of the complex negotiation processes surrounding intergovernmental conferences in the European Union.Sinc...