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This volume brings together important new research in decision science, capturing the crucial role of local context in a globalized, standardized world. Assembling the best work presented at the 2013 Conference of the European Decision Sciences Institute, it considers classic decision science problems from a new perspective, offering insights for improving decision-making in government, business, healthcare, education, manufacturing, the military, and beyond. The papers in Common Disciplines that Separate Us embrace the duality of globally determined local contexts, offering new approaches to decision-making related to:Strengthening national economic competitiveness Reforming the public sector and higher education Deploying information technology more effectively throughout government Making healthcare policy that achieves better outcomes at lower cost Analyzing social networks Improving processes via data visualization, modeling, and simulation Gaining more value from enterprise business intelligence Offshoring, nearshoring, "right shoring," and other key manufacturing decisions Improving supply chain performance And much moreThe papers collected here will be valuable to wide audiences of faculty, researchers, and students in diverse programs covering business, public administration, and economics; and for others interested in the frontiers of decision science.
Contents
Foreword by D. Clay Whybark xiiIntroduction: Common Disciplines That Separate Us--Local Contexts in Global Networks xixPart I: Plenary PapersChapter 1: Good Governance and Good Public Administration 1Chapter 2: Struggling with Flood: Universities in Times of Crisis 11Chapter 3: The Advantages of Hierarchical Organization: From Pigeon Flocks to Optimal Network Structures 21Chapter 4: Globally Distributed Product Innovation: Efficacy of Distributed Teams 35Part II: Innovation and CompetitivenessChapter 5: Assessing the Role of R&D in International Competitiveness: Some Conceptual and Methodological Problems 53Chapter 6: On Perceptions of Technical Efficiency on the Basis of Innovation Union Scoreboard Index 69Part III: Public Sector DecisionsChapter 7: Military Decision Making and the Human Terrain 85Chapter 8: An Organic Approach to Command and Control and Military Decision Making 95Chapter 9: ICT-Based Value Creation in Business and Public Administration: Review and Research Propositions 109Chapter 10: The Whole of the Moon: Transforming from a Unitarist to a Pluralist Perspective 123Chapter 11: The Effects of External Changes on Different Actors in a Service Triad in the Public Sector: Finnish Visa Services in Russia 137Part IV: Healthcare DecisionsChapter 12: The Impact of Multicultural Teams on the Efficiency of Hospital Care in Dubai 153Chapter 13: Shared Decision Making in Healthcare: Is It Really Ideal? 171 Chapter 14: Process Quality and Patient Safety Outcomes in Hospitals 189 Part V: Decision AnalyticsChapter 15: Detecting Community Structures Based on Neighborhood Relations 201 Chapter 16: Business Process Amelioration Methods, Techniques, and Their Service Orientation--A Review of Literature 219Chapter 17: Development of Risk-Based Control Charts Considering Measurement Uncertainty 239Chapter 18: Information Processing in Emerging Markets: Industry Intelligence Activities in China 249Part VI: Researching and Practicing the Science of Supply ChainsChapter 19: Barriers of Interdisciplinary Decision Making: Integrating Production, Logistics, and Traffic 255Chapter 20: Building Risk Management Capability 265Chapter 21: Green Procurement Decisions under Business Volume Discounts 81Chapter 22: Supply Chain Integration and Performance 295Chapter 23: Combined Sourcing and Inventory Management Using Capacity Reservation and Spot Market 321Chapter 24: An Empirical Research on Information Technology Adoption and Organizational Factors in Large Enterprises in Iztapalapa, Mexico 335Author Index 351Index 352
