| Description |
1 online resource (online resource (388 pages)) |
| 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 [and others] -- 20. Knowledge sharing in supply chain / Mian M. Ajmal, Yohanes Kristianto |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Analysis |
Data mining |
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Decision analysis |
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Decision making concepts |
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Decision making techniques |
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Decision support systems |
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Game theory |
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Inventory management |
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Quality control |
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Risk analysis |
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Risk management |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title screen (IGI Global, viewed Apr. 22, 2012) |
| Subject |
Decision making.
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Strategic planning.
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decision making.
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Decision making.
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Strategic planning.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tavana, Madjid, 1957-
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IGI Global.
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| ISBN |
9781466615908 |
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1466615907 |
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