Economic systems analysis and assessment cost, value, and competition in information and knowledge intensive systems, organizations, and enterprises /: cost, value, and competition in information and knowledge intensive systems, organizations, and enterprises. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew P. Sage, William B. Rouse.
• Other Names: Sage, Andrew P; Rouse, William B
• Contents: PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT: COST, VALUE, AND COMPETITION IN INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE SYSTEMS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND ENTERPRISES; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. A Framework for Systems Engineering and Management; 1.3. Theory of the Firm; 1.4. Theory of the Consumer; 1.5. The Interaction of the Theories of Firms and Consumers: Microeconomic Models of Economic Activity; 1.6. Welfare or Normative Economics; 1.7. Program and Project Management Economics; 1.8. Contemporary Issues Concerning Information and Information Technology Economics. 1.9. Economic Pitfalls in the Engineering of Systems1.10. Summary; CHAPTER 2 PRODUCTION AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. The Production Function; 2.3. Multiproduct Firms and Multiproduct Production Functions; 2.4. Classic Theory of the Firm; 2.5. Imperfect Competition; 2.6. Summary; CHAPTER 3 THE THEORY OF THE CONSUMER; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Economic Utility Theory and Its Axioms; 3.3. Properties of Utility Functions; 3.4. The Fundamental Problem of the Consumer; 3.5. Sensitivity and Substitution Effects; 3.6. Summary. CHAPTER 4 SUPPLY DEMAND EQUILIBRIA AND MICROECONOMIC SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT MODELS4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Basic Supply Demand Equilibrium for a Single Good; 4.3. General Supply Demand Equilibrium Conditions; 4.4. Extensions to General Equilibrium to Include Market Interdependencies; 4.5. Microeconomic Models; 4.6. Summary; CHAPTER 5 NORMATIVE OR WELFARE ECONOMICS, DECISIONS AND GAMES, AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Pareto Optimality under Perfect Competition Conditions; 5.3. External Effects and Imperfect Competition: Public Goods. 5.4. External Effects and Imperfect Competition: Nonindependent Production and Consumption5.5. Welfare Maximization and Social Choice; 5.6. Summary; CHAPTER 6 COST BENEFIT AND COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSES AND ASSESSMENTS; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The Time Value of Money; 6.3. Identification of Costs and Benefits; 6.4. The Identification and Quantification of Effectiveness; 6.5. Summary; CHAPTER 7 COST ASSESSMENT; 7.1. Model-Based Parameters for Productivity; 7.2. Early Models for Estimation of Costs, Including Effort and Schedule; 7.3. The Constructive Cost Model; 7.4. Summary. CHAPTER 8 APPROACHES TO INVESTMENT VALUATION8.1. Microeconomics; 8.2. The Investment Problem; 8.3. Investment Valuation; 8.4. Summary; CHAPTER 9 REAL OPTIONS FOR INVESTMENT VALUATION; 9.1. Nature of Options; 9.2. Option Pricing Theory; 9.3. Option Calculator; 9.4. Strategic Metrics; 9.5. Investment Decision Making; 9.6. Value-Centered R 9.7. Summary; CHAPTER 10 CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES; 10.1. Introduction; 10.2. Evolutionary Economics; 10.3. Path Dependence and Network Effects; 10.4. Intellectual Capital; 10.5. Value of Information; 10.6. Investing in Humans; 10.7. Summary; INDEX.
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, N.J : Wiley
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (421 p.)
• Subjects: 338.501 658.15; Microeconomics; System analysis; Microeconomics; System analysis; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1283026511; 9781283026512; 9786613026514; 6613026514; 1118015487; 9781118015483; 1118015495; 9781118015490; 1118015479; 9781118015476
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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