Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics + Website : A feedback systems approach
| Year of publication: |
2015 ; 2nd ed
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| Authors: | Morecroft, John D. W. |
| Publisher: |
Hoboken : Wiley |
| Subject: | Website | Simulation | Wirtschaftsmodell | Economic model | Unternehmensplanung | Corporate planning | Entscheidung | Decision |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (939 p) |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record Cover; Epigraph; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; About the Author; Foreword by Peter Checkland; Preface to the Second Edition; Notes; Preface from the First Edition; Manufacturing Dynamics and Information Networks; Bounded Rationality and Behavioural Decision Making; Modelling for Learning; The Dynamics of Strategy; Soft Systems and Complementary Modelling Methods; Notes; How to Use This Book; MBA and Modular/Executive MBA; Non-Degree Executive Education; Undergraduate and Specialist; Notes; Chapter 1 The Appeal and Power of Strategic Modelling; Introduction; A New Approach to Modelling The Puzzling Dynamics of International FisheriesModel of a Natural Fishery; Operating a Simple Harvested Fishery; Preview of the Book and Topics Covered; Appendix - Archive Materials from World Dynamics; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Introduction to Feedback Systems Thinking; Ways of Interpreting Situations in Business and Society; A Start on Causal Loop Diagrams; Structure and Behaviour Through Time - Feedback Loops and the Dynamics of a Slow-to-Respond Shower; From Events to Dynamics and Feedback - Drug-related Crime; Purpose of Causal Loop Diagrams - A Summary Feedback Structure and Dynamics of a Technology-based Growth BusinessCausal Loop Diagrams - Basic Tips; Causal Loop Diagram of Psychological Pressures and Unintended Haste in a Troubled Internet Start-Up; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Modelling Dynamic Systems; Asset Stock Accumulation; The Coordinating Network; Modelling Symbols in Use: A Closer Look at Drug-related Crime; Equation Formulations; Experiments with the Model of Drug-related Crime; Benefits of Model Building and Simulation; Notes; References; Chapter 4 World of Showers; Getting Started; Redesigning Your World of Showers Inside World of ShowersSimulations of World of Showers B; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Cyclical Dynamics and the Process of Model Building; An Overview of the Modelling Process; Employment and Production Instability - Puzzling Performance Over Time; Equation Formulations and Computations in Production Control; Modelling Workforce Management and Factory Production Dynamics; Equation Formulations in Workforce Management; Chronic Cyclicality in Employment and Production and How to Cure It; Modelling for Learning and Soft Systems; Appendix 1: Model Communication and Policy Structure Diagrams Appendix 2: The Dynamics of Information SmoothingNotes; References; Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Growth from Diffusion; Stocks and Flows in New Product Adoption - A Conceptual Diffusion Model; The Bass Model - An Elegant Special Case of a Diffusion Model; A Variation on the Diffusion Model: The Rise of Low-cost Air Travel in Europe; Strategy and Simulation of Growth Scenarios; Conclusion; Appendix: More About the Fliers Model; Notes; References; Chapter 7 Managing Business Growth; A Conceptual Model of Market Growth and Capital Investment; Formulation Guidelines for Portraying Feedback Structure An Information Feedback View of Management and Policy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-118-84468-7 ; 978-1-118-84470-0 ; 978-1-118-84468-7 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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