About the Book
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 more
The 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.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by D. Clay Whybark xii
Introduction: Common Disciplines That Separate Us--Local Contexts in Global Networks xix
Part I: Plenary Papers
Chapter 1: Good Governance and Good Public Administration 1
Chapter 2: Struggling with Flood: Universities in Times of Crisis 11
Chapter 3: The Advantages of Hierarchical Organization: From Pigeon Flocks to Optimal Network Structures 21
Chapter 4: Globally Distributed Product Innovation: Efficacy of Distributed Teams 35
Part II: Innovation and Competitiveness
Chapter 5: Assessing the Role of R&D in International Competitiveness: Some Conceptual and Methodological Problems 53
Chapter 6: On Perceptions of Technical Efficiency on the Basis of Innovation Union Scoreboard Index 69
Part III: Public Sector Decisions
Chapter 7: Military Decision Making and the Human Terrain 85
Chapter 8: An Organic Approach to Command and Control and Military Decision Making 95
Chapter 9: ICT-Based Value Creation in Business and Public Administration: Review and Research Propositions 109
Chapter 10: The Whole of the Moon: Transforming from a Unitarist to a Pluralist Perspective 123
Chapter 11: The Effects of External Changes on Different Actors in a Service Triad in the Public Sector: Finnish Visa Services in Russia 137
Part IV: Healthcare Decisions
Chapter 12: The Impact of Multicultural Teams on the Efficiency of Hospital Care in Dubai 153
Chapter 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 Analytics
Chapter 15: Detecting Community Structures Based on Neighborhood Relations 201
Chapter 16: Business Process Amelioration Methods, Techniques, and Their Service Orientation--A Review of Literature 219
Chapter 17: Development of Risk-Based Control Charts Considering Measurement Uncertainty 239
Chapter 18: Information Processing in Emerging Markets: Industry Intelligence Activities in China 249
Part VI: Researching and Practicing the Science of Supply Chains
Chapter 19: Barriers of Interdisciplinary Decision Making: Integrating Production, Logistics, and Traffic 255
Chapter 20: Building Risk Management Capability 265
Chapter 21: Green Procurement Decisions under Business Volume Discounts 81
Chapter 22: Supply Chain Integration and Performance 295
Chapter 23: Combined Sourcing and Inventory Management Using Capacity Reservation and Spot Market 321
Chapter 24: An Empirical Research on Information Technology Adoption and Organizational Factors in Large Enterprises in Iztapalapa, Mexico 335
Author Index 351
Index 352
About the Author :
Gyula Vastag is Professor and Magyary Chair at the National University of Public Service (Budapest, Hungary) and Professor at Szechenyi University (Gyor, Hungary). Born in Hungary, he earned PhD and Doctor of Sciences degrees from the predecessor of Corvinus University of Budapest and from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and he finished habilitation at Corvinus University. From the late 1980s, he spent almost two decades in the United States on the faculties of the Kelley School of Business (Indiana University), the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management (Michigan State University), and the Kenan-Flagler Business School (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Between 2005 and 2007, he was Visiting Professor (part-time) at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). He spent the 2000-2001 academic year in Stuttgart, where he was Professor and Dean of Supply Chain Management Programs and held a visiting professorship afterward. Dr. Vastag coauthored two books, wrote eight business cases, and has contributed chapters to 15 books. His papers (30+ refereed journal publications) were published in a variety of peer-reviewed academic and professional journals in the United States and in Europe and in numerous conference proceedings. Gyula received several research awards: New Central Europe Distinguished Senior Researcher Scholarship (2014), Best Applications Paper Award by Alpha Iota Delta--The International Honor Society in Decision Sciences and Information Systems (2012), and Award for Research Excellence from Corvinus University (2009). He was the Founding Editor of the Pannon Management Review, is the Associate Editor of the Decision Sciences Journal, and serves on the editorial boards of the Central European Business Review, Business Research, Logistics Research, International Journal of Quality Innovation, and Vezetestudomany.
Dr. Vastag worked with a number of organizations including the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota), International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland, Global TransPark Authority of North Carolina, Knorr-Bremse Hungary, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, North Carolina State University, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), ESSEC-Mannheim Business School (Germany), OTP Bank, and the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).
He is Founding Member and Member of the Executive Board of the European Decision Sciences Institute, Vice President for Global Activities, and Member of the Executive Board of the Decision Sciences Institute, where he has also served as Program Chair and Track Chair of DSI conferences. He is Founding Member and past Associate Director of the Global Manufacturing Research Group. He served on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Inventory Research (1998-2006); between 2006 and 2014 he was Member of the Auditing Committee.
The European Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI) is a professional organization of European researchers, managers, educators, students, and institutions interested in decision making in private and public organizations.
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