Decision Science | Ann Van Ackere, Kiriakos Vlahos | Taylor & Francis

ABSTRACT

This title was first published in 2000. This text is part of the "International Library of Management", which aims to present a comprehensive core reference series comprised of significant and influencial articles by the authorities in the management studies field. The collection of essays is both international and interdisciplinary in scope and aims to provide an entry point for investigating the myriad of study within the discipline.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

PART I UNCERTAINTY, RISK AND DECISION-M AKING

chapter 1|18 pages

M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (1996), ‘Uncertainties in Risk Analysis: Six Levels of Treatment’, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 54, pp. 95-111

chapter 2|12 pages

Craig W. Kirkwood (1992), ‘An Overview of Methods for Applied Decision Analysis’, Interfaces, 22, pp. 28-39

chapter 3|10 pages

Ralph L. Keeney (1988), ‘Building Models of Values’, European Journal o f Operational Research, 37, pp. 149-57

chapter 4|28 pages

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1986), ‘Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions’, Journal o f Business, 59, pp. S251-S278

chapter 5|22 pages

James E. Smith and Robert F. Nau (1995), ‘Valuing Risky Projects: Option Pricing Theory and Decision Analysis’, Management Science, 41, pp. 795-816

chapter 6|22 pages

Jack A. Jackson, Jack M. Kloeber Jr., Brian E. Ralston, and Richard F. Deckro (1999), ‘Selecting a Portfolio of Technologies: An Application of Decision Analysis’, Decision Sciences, 30, pp. 217-38

chapter |10 pages

7F.V. Krumm and C.F. Rolle (1992), ‘Management and Application of Decision and Risk Analysis in Du Pont’, Interfaces, 22, pp. 84–93

part |2 pages

PART II RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND M ANAGEM ENT

chapter 8|22 pages

David R. Cariño, Terry Kent, David H. Myers, Celine Stacy, Mike Sylvanus, Andrew L. Turner, Kouji Watanabe and William T. Ziemba (1994), ‘The Russell-Yasuda Kasai Model: An Asset/Liability Model for a Japanese Insurance Company Using Multistage Stochastic Programming’, Interfaces, 24, pp. 29-49

chapter 9|28 pages

Kurt M. Bretthauer and Murray J. Côté (1998), ‘A Model for Planning Resource Requirements in Health Care Organizations’, Decision Sciences, 29, pp. 243-70

chapter 10|14 pages

Antreas D. Athanassopoulos and Joan A. Ballantine (1995), ‘Ratio and Frontier Analysis for Assessing Corporate Performance: Evidence from the Grocery Industry in the UK’, Journal o f the Operational Research Society, 46, pp. 427-40

chapter 11|10 pages

Paul Danielsen, David Eldridge and Steven Brown (1991), ‘On the Waterfront’, OR Insight, 4, pp. 6-14

chapter 12|10 pages

Youngho Lee and Amie Elcan (1996), ‘Simulation Modeling for Process Reengineering in the Telecommunications Industry’, Interfaces, 26, pp. 1-9

chapter 13|22 pages

E. Powell Robinson Jr. and Ronald K. Satterfield (1998), ‘Designing Distribution Systems to Support Vendor Strategies in Supply Chain Management’, Decision Sciences, 29, pp. 685-706

chapter 14|26 pages

Timothy Kevin Baker and David A. Collier (1999), ‘A Comparative Revenue Analysis of Hotel Yield Management Heuristics’, Decision Sciences, 30, pp. 239-63

part |2 pages

PART III INCENTIVES AND M ULTIPERSON DECISION-M AKING

chapter 15|14 pages

George A. Akerlof (1970), ‘The Market for “Lemons”: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism’, Quarterly Journal o f Economics, 84, pp. 488-500

chapter 16|6 pages

Ann M. Carlos (1992), ‘Principal-Agent Problems in Early Trading Companies: A Tale of Two Firms’, American Economic Review, 82, pp. 140-45

chapter 17|14 pages

Ann M. Carlos and Stephen Nicholas (1993), ‘Managing the Manager: An Application of the Principal Agent Model to the Hudson’s Bay Company’, Oxford Economic Papers, 45, pp. 243-56

chapter 18|20 pages

James M. Griffin and William S. Neilson (1994), ‘The 1985-86 Oil Price Collapse and Afterwards: What does Game Theory Add?’, Economic Inquiry, XXXII, pp. 543-61

chapter 19|14 pages

Ann van Ackere (1992), ‘The Impact of Conflicting Interest on the Choice of an Appointments System’, Belgian Journal o f Operations Research, Statistics and Computer Science, 31, pp. 97-109

part |2 pages

PART IV INTEGRATED DECISION SUPPORT

chapter 20|16 pages

Derek W. Bunn, Erik R. Larsen and Kiriakos Vlahos (1993), ‘Complementary Modelling Approaches for Analysing Several Effects of Privatization on Electricity Investment’, Journal o f the Operational Research Society, 44, pp. 957-71

chapter 21|12 pages

Kenneth J. Worzel, Christiana Vassiadou-Zeniou and Stavros A. Zenios (1994), ‘Integrated Simulation and Optimization Models for Tracking Indices of Fixed- Income Securities’, Operations Research, 42, pp. 223-33

chapter 22|16 pages

Jonathan Rosenhead (1996), ‘W hat’s the Problem? An Introduction to Problem Structuring Methods’, Interfaces, 26, pp. 117-31

chapter 23|8 pages

Brian Lehaney and Ray J. Paul (1996), ‘The Use of Soft Systems Methodology in the Development of a Simulation of Out-patient Services at Watford General Hospital’, Journal o f the Operational Research Society, 47, pp. 864-70

chapter 24|14 pages

Daniel R. Dolk and Jeffrey E. Kottemann (1993), ‘Model Integration and a Theory of Models’, Decision Support Systems, 9, pp. 51-63

chapter 25|12 pages

Timothy W. Butler, Kirk R. Karwan and James R. Sweigart (1992), ‘Multi-Level Strategic Evaluation of Hospital Plans and Decisions’, Journal o f the Operational Research Society, 43, pp. 665-75

chapter 26|14 pages

Reza H. Ahmadi (1997), ‘Managing Capacity and Flow at Theme Parks’, Operations Research, 45, pp. 1-13

chapter 27|10 pages

Brad Warner and Manavendra Misra (1996), ‘Understanding Neural Networks as Statistical Tools’, The American Statistician, 50, pp. 284-93

chapter 28|12 pages

Ned Kumar, Ravindra Krovi and Balaji Rajagopalan (1997), ‘Financial Decision Support with Hybrid Genetic and Neural Based Modeling Tools’, European Journal o f Operational Research, 103, pp. 339—49