Author: Philip H. Crowley Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019985680X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 523
Book Description
Decisions are made by individual humans-but also by corporations, plants, robots, and computer programs. The authors of this volume help initiate a powerful new comparative dimension for our analysis and application of decision making across an enormous range of intellectual enquiry.
Author: Evangelos Triantaphyllou Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1475731574 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 307
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Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) has been one of the fastest growing problem areas in many disciplines. The central problem is how to evaluate a set of alternatives in terms of a number of criteria. Although this problem is very relevant in practice, there are few methods available and their quality is hard to determine. Thus, the question `Which is the best method for a given problem?' has become one of the most important and challenging ones. This is exactly what this book has as its focus and why it is important. The author extensively compares, both theoretically and empirically, real-life MCDM issues and makes the reader aware of quite a number of surprising `abnormalities' with some of these methods. What makes this book so valuable and different is that even though the analyses are rigorous, the results can be understood even by the non-specialist. Audience: Researchers, practitioners, and students; it can be used as a textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in business and engineering.
Author: Philip H. Crowley Publisher: ISBN: 9780199301508 Category : Decision making Languages : en Pages : 508
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Decision making cuts across most areas of intellectual enquiry and academic endeavour. The classical view of individual human thinkers choosing among options remains important and instructive, but the contributors to this volume broaden this perspective to characterise the decision making behaviour of groups, non-human organisms and even non-living objects and mathematical constructs.
Author: Howard G. Birnbaum Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811032629 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 289
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In the past decade there has been a worldwide evolution in evidence-based medicine that focuses on real-world Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to compare the effects of one medical treatment versus another in real world settings. While most of this burgeoning literature has focused on research findings, data and methods, Howard Birnbaum and Paul Greenberg (both of Analysis Group) have edited a book that provides a practical guide to decision making using the results of analysis and interpretation of CER. Decision Making in a World of Comparative Effectiveness contains chapters by senior industry executives, key opinion leaders, accomplished researchers, and leading attorneys involved in resolving disputes in the life sciences industry. The book is aimed at 'users' and 'decision makers' involved in the life sciences industry rather than those doing the actual research. This book appeals to those who commission CER within the life sciences industry (pharmaceutical, biologic, and device manufacturers), government (both public and private payers), as well as decision makers of all levels, both in the US and globally.
Author: Frank A. Heller Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 264
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This book presents a major longitudinal comparative analysis of decision-making in seven organizations in the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia and the Netherlands. Although studies of decision-making and power relations within organizations are not new, Decisions in Organizations breaks new ground because it uses an original combination of qualitative and quantitative methods for assessing operational, tactical and strategic decisions. The result is a theoretical model which throws fresh light on the complexities of organizational events and helps to explain the main ingredients of power, and the role and limitation of participative decision-making.
Author: Birke Häcker Publisher: ISBN: 9781780686240 Category : Court administration Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book focuses on the decision-making processes in modern collegiate courts. Judges from some of the world s highest and most significant judicial bodies, both national and supranational, share their experiences and reflect on the challenges to which their joint judicial endeavour gives rise.
Author: B. Guy Peters Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316738175 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 273
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Decision-making is at the heart of governing and governance, and is a more challenging task compared to just a few decades ago as a result of increasing social complexity and globalization. In this book, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre propose a new framework for the comparative analysis of governance, arguing that government remains a central actor in governance. By articulating the functionalist dimension of governance they show how goal setting, resource mobilization, decision-making, implementation and feedback can be performed by a combination of different types of actors. Even so, effective governance requires a leading role for government. The framework is also applied to a taxonomy of governance arrangements and national styles of governing. Comparative Governance advances our knowledge about governance failure and how forms of governance may change. It also significantly strengthens the theory of governance, showing how governance can be studied conceptually as well as empirically.
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