Business : Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Decision-making is one of the defining characteristics of modern organizations. This book collects together the most important writing on decision-making by Brunsson, one of the leading European organizational theorists. The author provides an introduction to this work, brought together for the first time in this volume. - ;Nils Brunsson is one of the leading European organization theorists who has written and researched decision-making in organizations. He has often questioned the rationality of decision-making, and argued that it is as important to understand other consequences of decision-making apart from choice - such things as mobilizing action, allocating responsibility, and legitimizing organizations. These consequences of decisions can influence decision-making and the assumptions about feasible norms that provide their context. Decisions often run counter to actions and are part of what Brunsson calls organizational hypocrisy. Decisions can substitute for action, or decrease the probability of the action they call for. The norm of rationality is far from obvious: sometimes decision-makers can recommend systematic irrationality. This book collects together a wide-range of Nils Brunsson's most important writing on decision-making, brought together in one volume for the first time, with an introduction from the author. - more...

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The new edition has a thorough treatment of stochastic simulation, including some novel yet simple methods for dealing to stochastic dependency between uncertain quantities. The treatment of policy aspects of risk in agriculture has been revised and extended. Author Hardaker from University of New England, NSW. more...

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Based on a wealth of empirical studies, personal experience, and rigorous research, this book provides managers with an Early Awareness System that will alert them to any potential areas of conflict on the horizon. It has also developed a strategic approach and complementary toolkit to help companies deal responsibly and strategically with a fragmented, volatile, and sometimes hostile business environment. This is not a book on crisis management; it is a book on preventing the crisis you don’t want to manage. more...

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This book outlines best practices for board directors in public, private, and not-for-profit organizations. It provides real-world cases and best practices in corporate culture, compliance, audit committees, compensation committees, other committees, working with internal audit, IT corporate governance, as well as other board responsibilities. more...

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An up-to-date, comprehensive overview of credit scoring, covering the scorecard development process, all aspects of its use and how it affects businesses and consumers, from micro-lending through to large unlisted companies. - ;The Credit Scoring Toolkit provides an all-encompassing view of the use of statistical models to assess retail credit risk and provide automated decisions. In eight modules, the book provides frameworks for both theory and practice. It first explores the economic justification and history of Credit Scoring, risk linkages and decision science, statistical and mathematical tools, the assessment of business enterprises, and regulatory issues ranging from data privacy to Basel II. It then provides a practical how-to-guide for scorecard development, including data collection, scorecard implementation, and use within the credit risk management cycle. Including numerous real-life examples and an extensive glossary and bibliography, the text assumes little prior knowledge making it an indispensable desktop reference for graduate students in statistics, business, economics and finance, MBA students, credit risk and financial practitioners. - ;This is an extremely valuable and timely book on a very important topic ... Anderson has provided a great service to all who use Credit Scoring techniques. - Barry Scholnick PhD, Eric Geddes Associate Professor of Business, University of Alberta;It is a superb mixture of a practical how to do guide for those wanting to use and develop credit scoring together with a way of putting the decisions it supports in context and the techniques it uses in a general modelling framework. - Professor Lyn Thomas, Professor of Management Science, Scholl of Management, University of Southampton more...

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