{"product_id":"decision-sciences-an-integrative-perspective-paperback-9780521338127","title":"Decision Sciences; An Integrative Perspective (Paperback) 9780521338127","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDecision Sciences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Integrative Perspective\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe long-awaited textbook on the developing field of decision sciences. This book compares different types of decision making and emphasises the link between problem finding and problem solving.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul R. Kleindorfer (Author), Howard G. Kunreuther (Author), Paul J. H. Schoemaker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521338127, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 27 August 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e484 pages, 74 b\/w illus.  46 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.71 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Decision Sciences offers a broad and deep coverage of decision making; individual, group, organizational, and societal. It stresses the need to understand the decision process and integrates this with descriptive insight and prescriptive guidance to make wise decisions. Decision Sciences has defined the field.\"   Ralph L. Keeney, author of Value-Focused Thinking\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis long-awaited textbook provides a unified perspective of a rich and varied field. It recognises that in order to develop strategies for improving the decision-making process one needs to understand how decisions are made in practice and in what ways behaviour differs from guidelines implied by normative theories of choice. It is the interplay between descriptive, normative, and prescriptive analysis that gives this book a special flavour. Using a set of illustrative examples, Decision Sciences synthesises current research about different types of decision making, including individual, group, organisational, and societal. Special attention is given to the linkage between problem finding and problem solving.  The principal message emerging from the book is that decision making entails a complex set of processes that need to be understood in order to develop sound prescriptions or policy advice.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The scope of decision sciences\u003cbr\u003e 2. Problem finding and alternative generation\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Individual Decision Making\u003cbr\u003e 3. Prediction and inference\u003cbr\u003e 4. Valuation and choice\u003cbr\u003e 5. Evaluating prescriptive approaches\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Multi-person Decision Making\u003cbr\u003e 6. Group decision making\u003cbr\u003e 7. Formal models of group decision making\u003cbr\u003e 8. Organisational decision making\u003cbr\u003e 9. Societal decision making\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Appendices.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Management decision making [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Management decision making\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Management%20decision%20making%20%5BKJMD%5D%22\"\u003eKJMD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005028978968,"sku":"9780521338127","price":40.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521338127i_f14e6bf7-c0f6-4858-8461-8b05f3e9e752.jpg?v=1691375420","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/decision-sciences-an-integrative-perspective-paperback-9780521338127","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}