Decision-Making & Problem Solving
- Innovation--The Missing Dimension
- Richard K. Lester
- Michael J. Piore
- Amid mounting concern over the loss of jobs to low-wage economies, one fact is clear: America's prosperity hinges on the ability of its businesses to continually introduce new products and services. But what makes for a creative economy? For an answer, Lester and Piore examine innovation strategies in some of the economy's most dynamic sectors, including cell phones, medical devices, and blue jeans.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- The Matching Law
- Richard J. Herrnstein
- Edited by Howard Rachlin
- Edited by David I. Laibson
- This collection consists of Richard Herrnstein's most important and original contributions to the social and behavioral sciences--his papers on choice behavior in animals and humans and on his discovery and elucidation of a general principle of choice called the matching law.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000
- The Success of Open Source
- Steven Weber
- In spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, Steven Weber argues, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programmers can create a more effective process for developing intellectual products. Weber argues that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles and explains the political and economic dynamics of this critical market development.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- Value-Focused Thinking
- Ralph L. Keeney
- In this book, Ralph Keeney turns standard decisionmaking methods on their heads. Rather than placing emphasis on mechanics and fixed solutions, Keeney argues, we should focus on the bottom-line objectives that give decisionmaking its meaning: it is through recognizing and articulating fundamental values that we can better identify decision opportunities--and thereby create better decision alternatives.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1996