This book explores how to design and implement planning & control (P&C) systems that can help organizations to manage their growth and restructuring processes in a sustainability perspective. The book is not designed to enable the reader to become an experienced system dynamics modeler; rather,...

"In this book business dynamics refers to a combination of business management and financial objectives embedded in a dynamical system model. The model is subject to a control that optimizes a performance index that takes both management and finance into account. The central idea in this book is...

Dynamical systems -- Deterministic linear systems -- Deterministic nonlinear systems -- Stochastic difference equations -- Markov processes -- Ergodic theory and stationary processes -- Dynamic optimization -- Markov decision process model -- Finite-horizon dynamic programming --...