This book presents some of the most important papers published in Palgrave’s Journal of Operational Research relating to the use of System Dynamics (SD) in the context of Operational Research (OR). Giving the reader an in-depth understanding of significant features of the research area which...

This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how. Further, it proposes an integrated causal mechanism for the effects on participants. There have been multiple previous attempts at...

Ein wirkungsvolles Instrument für gelingendes Change Management, fundiert und nachvollziehbar dargestellt mit vielen Fallbeispielen. Dieses Buch zeigt anschaulich, wie systemische Aufstellungen als Instrument der Organisations- und Personalentwicklung genutzt werden können und somit den Aufbau...

Übersichtliche Lehrbuchdarstellung zu einem aktuellen theoretischen Thema, insbesondere auch als "Grundlagenforschung" für das Kapitalmarktgeschehen. Aus dem Inhalt: Einleitung. Starkes und schwaches Kausalitätsprinzip. Einführung notwendiger Grundbegriffe. Eingrenzung des Begriffes "Chaos"....

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the asymptotic behavior of dynamic monopolies, duopolies, and oligopolies where firms face information and implementation delays. It considers discrete and continuous timescales, continuously distributed delays, as well as single and multiple...

In recent times, India has emerged as one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world and witnessed a telecommunication revolution brought about by a collaboration of government, industry, and the scientific community. From a situation where an applicant had to wait three years to obtain...

The article continues previous text published in "Management Business Innovation" (No. 6, 2010) under the title Stock-And-Flow Thinking In Decision Making. Towards Systemic Procedure of Problem Solving. The methodology presented there is shown in the practical context of water supply management...

The goal of this paper is to discuss the role System Dynamics (SD) can play to enhance performance improvement in the public sector. It is remarked how SD can help decision makers to properly perceive the boundaries of the relevant system underlying observed phenomena. To this end, three real...