Executive decision synthesis : a sociotechnical systems paradigm /: a sociotechnical systems paradigm. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Victor Tang, Kevin Otto, Warren Seering.
• Authors: Tang, Victor; Otto, Kevin; Seering, Warren
• Contents: Intro; Preface; What This Book Is About; Intended Audience; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I; Chapter 1: Introducing Executive-Management Decisions; 1.1 Examples of Executive Management Decisions; 1.1.1 Motivation; 1.1.2 Four Examples; 1.1.3 Remarks; 1.2 Chapter Introduction; 1.3 A New Prescriptive Paradigm; 1.3.1 Decision: A Compleat Definition; 1.3.2 Whatś New and Different?; 1.3.2.1 Decision Life-Cycle as a Complex of Five Sociotechnical Spaces; 1.3.2.2 Decision as a Specification; 1.3.2.3 Decisions as Intellectual Artifacts; 1.3.2.4 Decisions as Design Synthesis 1.3.2.5 Decisions That Have Reduced Bias1.3.2.6 Decisions ́Performance as Robustness; 1.3.2.7 Operational Quality as Repeatability and Reproducibility; 1.3.2.8 Decision Alternatives as Spanning the Entire Solution Under any Uncertainty Space; 1.3.2.9 Decisions as Grounded on the Sciences of the Artificial; 1.3.2.10 Paradigm Effectiveness as Readiness for-Work and to-Work; 1.4 What Makes Executive-Management Decisions Challenging?; 1.4.1 Ill-Structured, Messy and Wicked Problems; 1.4.2 Determinants of Messes and Wickedness 1.4.3 Contributing Factors: Complexity, Uncertainty, Disciplinary, and Organizational Factors1.5 System Effects of Contributing Factors; 1.5.1 Statics of Factor Interactions; 1.5.2 System Dynamics of Interactions; 1.5.3 Executive Decisiveness; 1.6 Decision Design Principles; 1.6.1 Introduction; 1.6.2 Six Principles; 1.7 What Is a Systematically Designed Decision?; 1.8 Chapter Summary; Appendix 1.1 Criteria of Wicked and Messy Problems; Appendix 1.2 Criteria of Super Wicked Problems; Appendix 1.3 Chernś Ten Principles of Sociotechnical Systems Design Appendix 1.4 Cleggś 19 Principles of Sociotechnical System DesignAppendix 1.5 Potworowskiś (2010) Definitions for Indecision and Indecisiveness; References; Chapter 2: Decision Theories and Methodologies; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Origins; 2.3 Four Schools of Decision Theory; 2.3.1 Normative Decision Theory; 2.3.2 Descriptive Theories; 2.3.2.1 Introduction; 2.3.2.2 Prospect Theory; 2.3.2.3 Social Judgment Theory; 2.3.2.4 Ecological Rational Theory; 2.3.3 Prescriptive Decision Theories; 2.3.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.3.2 Analytic Hierarchy Process; 2.3.3.3 Howardś Decision Analysis 2.3.3.4 Value Focused Thinking2.3.3.5 Real Options; 2.3.3.6 Ecological Rational Theory: Adaptive Tool Box; 2.3.4 Declarative School; 2.4 Tensions Between the Three Schools; 2.5 The Canonical Normal Form; 2.6 What Is a Good Decision?; 2.6.1 Introduction; 2.6.2 Three Dogmas: Normative, Descriptive, and Prescriptive; 2.6.3 Howardś Good Decision; 2.6.4 Carroll and Johnsonś Good Process; 2.6.5 Our Four Rś: Robustness, Repeatability, Reproducibility, and Reflection; 2.6.6 Discussion; 2.7 Chapter Summary; Appendix 2.1 Axioms of Normative Decision Theory
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.403; Business; Decision making; Decision making -- Mathematical models; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; Engineering: general; Operational research; Business strategy; Optimization; Business and Management; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Operations Research, Management Science; Business Strategy/Leadership; Continuous Optimization; Decision making; Technology & Engineering -- General; Business & Economics -- Operations Research; Business & Economics -- Management; Mathematics -- Applied; Management science; Operations research; Engineering economy; Leadership; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319630267; 3319630261
• Related ISBNs: 9783319630243; 3319630245
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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