Introduction -- Game Theory Models in Finance -- Game Theoretic Models in Accounting -- GT and Marketing -- Game Theoretic Models in Operations Management and Information Systems -- Incentive Contracting and Franchise Decisions -- Game Theory and the Practice of Bargaining -- GT Models of...

The micro-economic behaviour typical of humans is also found in other animals, suggesting that some basic biological features underpin the behaviour of many species, and that there are some problems with traditional micro-economic theory

What Is a Decision Problem? Designing Alternatives -- MCDA Approaches for Efficient Strategic Decision Making -- Collaborative Decision Making for Small Groups utilizing UTA Methods -- Disaggregation Approaches for Multicriteria Classification: An Overview -- Multiple Criteria Approaches for...

This book provides essential insights into a range of newly developed numerical optimization techniques with a view to solving real-world problems. Many of these problems can be modeled as nonlinear optimization problems, but due to their complex nature, it is not always possible to solve them...

The Second Edition of this book presents the state of the art in this important field. Marketing decision models constitute a core component of the marketing discipline and the area is changing rapidly, not only due to fundamental advances in methodology and model building, but also because of...

Philipp Plank analyses the question, what drives the quality of cost-systems and is the quality of cost-systems directly and at best positively related to the firms’ performance. In other words, is it worth investing in complex cost allocation systems or are there environmental and/or...

This book presents an ethical framework which evaluates the legitimacy of the practice of ghostwriting. It explores the connection between personal authenticity and the use of ghostwriters in corporate, political, legal, higher education, and scientific contexts. It then examines the history of...

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the latest research on hesitant fuzzy decision-making theory. It includes six parts: the hesitant fuzzy set and its extensions, novel hesitant fuzzy measures, hesitant fuzzy hybrid weighted aggregation operators, hesitant fuzzy...

These conference proceedings focus on the topics of data-driven decision-making, stochastic decision-making, fuzzy decision-making and their applications in real-life problems. Beijing University of Chemical Technology organized IFDS2016, the 4th International Forum on Decision Sciences, with...