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Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science, 3rd Edition

Michael Pidd
ISBN: 978-0-470-72142-1
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304 pages
December 2009, ©2010
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Preface ix

Acknowledgements xi

PART I MODELLING IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 1

1 Models as convenient worlds 3

2 Management Science – making sense of strategic vision 21

3 Problems, problems . . . 43

4 Some principles of modelling 63

PART II INTERPRETIVE MODELLING – SOFT MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 83

5 Soft systems methodology 89

6 Cognitive mapping, SODA and journey-making 109

7 System dynamics 135

8 Decision analysis 157

PART III MATHEMATICAL AND LOGICAL MODELLING 185

9 Optimization modelling – linear programming 187

10 Computer simulation – visual interactive modelling and Monte Carlo simulation 211

11 Heuristic search 241

PART IV MODEL ASSESSMENT AND VALIDATION 263

12 Model assessment and validation 265

Index 285

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