Building models directly with client groups has become increasingly common in the field of
system dynamics. For the past nine years, the modeling group at the University at Albany …

Experimental research practices encouraging scientific control and explicit measurement
have been criticized for dealing with management and organizational dynamics as if they …

Case studies of firms attempting to adopt a particular type of technological innovation have
demonstrated that the process of technological innovation may be mediated by decision …

General managers are expected to strive for organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Depending on their emphasis on efficiency and effectiveness, they produce four basic …

Since the oil shocks upset the business world in the 1970s, the use of multiple scenario
analysis has been increasingly propagated as an approach to deal effectively with the many …

Work in the field of multiple criteria analysis has generally focused on evaluation
procedures, taking as its starting point a well‐defined problem with specified alternatives …

A contractor to the channel tunnel project instigated litigation to claim for the costs of
disruption and delay. We used several interacting models to make the case for the claim …

The existing airports and others which have been involved in the continuing saga of
providing airport capacity for London and the southeast of England are shown in Figure 1 0 …

Abstract Researchers from the State University of New York at Albany and the New York
State Office of Mental Health have been engaged in testing an experimental approach to …

The Practitioner's Dilemma draws attention to the distinction between the prescriptions for
practice contained in the literature and the actuality of practice. In this paper a review of the …