Management decision making

This book gives professionals and business people the essential tools to become better thinkers and decision-makers.

This book showcases international research on health care organizations.

The theory of path dependence continues to attract great interest in a range of disciplines.

Claudio Ciborra was one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of information systems.

The book addresses the vital issue of how business leaders can prepare themselves to deal with the impact of unexpected events.

A close look at the main developments in IT, business processes and offshore outsourcing.

An insight into the 'black-box' of leadership learning that acts as a companion to guide leadership development.

Within a complex environment, change is endemic to survival and the dynamic capability to continuously learn becomes a critical success factor.

The value chain framework has made its way to the forefront of management thought as a powerful analysis tool for strategic planning.

The purpose of this work is to enhance understanding and the overall learning experience in OB, and ultimately, to help shape a more conscious workforce of people who have what it takes to succeed during uncertain times despite the ebb and flow of the market.

This volume draws on disciplines as different as Psychology, Anthropology, History and Biology to explain when and why individuals act to promote their own self-interest and when they sacrifice their own outcomes so that others can benefit.

We now possess the capability to make great business decisions in even the most difficult situations with the use of today's advanced software capability.

By looking at the three most recent economic crises, the S&L crisis, the dot-com bubble, and the recent subprime mortgage disaster, the author explains why and how corporate managers led their organizations toward disasters in the long-run.

This book brings together the stories and ideas of the future from a survey of nearly 300 emerging leaders to get their points of view and thoughts about how organizations need to change in order to develop effective leaders of tomorrow.

This book is about taking a theory, pricing, and translating it into an operational practice that can be used by a company on an everyday basis easily with maximum results.

The authors contend that current knowledge management efforts in organizations need to be re-focused so that they can be better poised for success.

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

The local levels of economies have felt the impact of technological change and globalization.

The local levels of economies have felt the impact of technological change and globalization.

From medicine to education, evidence-based approaches aim to evaluate and apply scientific evidence to a problem in order to arrive at the best possible solution.

Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not is the first book to show how and why so much of today's business advice is flawed, and how managers and executives can better evaluate advice given to their firms Practitioners and scholars agree that businesses in the coming millennium will be managed differently than firms of the 20th century.

Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis are the cornerstones of evidence-based medicine.

When The Knowledge-Creating Company (OUP; nearly 40,000 copies sold) appeared, it was hailed as a landmark work in the field of knowledge management.

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Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling taught a course in game theory and rational choice to advanced students and government officials for 45 years.

John Pollock aims to construct a theory of rational decision making for real agents--not ideal agents.

Now published in more than twenty countries, David Bornstein's How to Change the World has become the bible for social entrepreneurship--in which men and women around the world are finding innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems.

When The Knowledge-Creating Company (OUP; nearly 40,000 copies sold) appeared, it was hailed as a landmark work in the field of knowledge management.

Now published in more than twenty countries, David Bornstein's How to Change the World has become the bible for social entrepreneurship--in which men and women around the world are finding innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems.

Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis are the cornerstones of evidence-based medicine.

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world.

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world.

Macroeconomic turbulence and volatility in financial markets can fatally affect firm's performance.

From medicine to education, evidence-based approaches aim to evaluate and apply scientific evidence to a problem in order to arrive at the best possible solution.

The Missing Link to Toyota-Style Success-LEAN LEADERSHIPWinner of the 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award This great book reveals the secret ingredient to lean success: lean leadership.

Long acknowledged as a classic text on strategy, Sun Tzu's The Art of War had been admired by leaders as diverse as Mao Zedong and General Norman Schwartzkopf.

Within traditional decision theory, common decision principles -- e.

Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not is the first book to show how and why so much of today's business advice is flawed, and how managers and executives can better evaluate advice given to their firms Practitioners and scholars agree that businesses in the coming millennium will be managed differently than firms of the 20th century.

In this indispensable book, a widely experienced business consultant provides a complete set of analytical tools essential to successful trouble-shooting, effective planning, and making better decisions faster, more confidently, and more often.

How do companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rise to the top of their industries and dominate year after year, while others like People Express and LA Gear burn out after promising starts?

We all know that American business needs fixing, and there is no shortage of prescriptions: imitate the Japanese, or follow the example of successful firms, or practice right-sizing.

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Challenging problems both attract and repel us.

Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk.

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Many corporations, in their attempt to create innovative products and services, have focused on the concept of building teams.

Strategy as Action presents an action plan for how firms can build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage at every stage of their life cycle.

Increasingly, the challenge of management is to create and supply knowledge in order to sustain organizational performance.