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Distributed decision making (DDM) has become of increasing importance in quantitative decision analysis. In applications like supply chain management, service operations, or managerial accounting, DDM has led to a paradigm shift. The book provides a unified approach to such seemingly diverse fields as multi-level stochastic programming, hierarchical production planning, principal agent theory, negotiations or contract theory. Different settings like multi-level one-person decision problems, multi-person antagonistic planning, and leadership situations are covered. Numerous examples and real-life planning cases illustrate the concepts. The new edition has been considerably expanded by additional chapters on supply chain management, service operations and multi-agent systems.
Introduction -- Part I: Basic Foundations: Basic Concepts; Constructional DDM Systems; Organizational DDM Systems; Principal Agent Theory -- Part II: General Applications: Hierarchical Production Planning; Organizational Design; Implementation; Supply Chain Management; Service Operations; Managerial Accounting -- Part III: Leadership and Coordination Processes: General DDM Systems; Coordination through Communication; Negotiations; Distributed Decision Making in Multi-Agent Systems; A Unifying Perspective of the Management Process. Exercises; Solutions to the Exercises.