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How and to what extent do decisions affect business performance? Despite years of study by academic researchers and industry practitioners, there still remains a need to draw a clear and established connection between decision making and performance. By closely examining consequential business decisions made by key executives, this book offers a better understanding of business performance and recommendations for improved business practices. Through the use of case studies and interviews with business leaders based on 17 theorized measures of performance, this breakthrough study not only clarifies the impact of decisions on business performance, but also defines and distinguishes decisions that lead to successful and unsuccessful performance. Recommendations are made to optimize decision making for businesses of all sizes and projections about the future of decision making and performance are provided. This book can be used both as a reference source for academic researchers and students seeking further research on the subject, and as a practical guide for leaders and business professionals seeking advancement and better decision making within the industry.

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Biographical note: Prof. Dr. Rainer Völker lehrt Management an der Hochschule Ludwigshafen am Rhein und ist wissenschaftlicher Leiter des dortigen Instituts für Management und Innovation. Long description: Wir Menschen müssen täglich eine Vielzahl von Entscheidungen treffen. Dabei wollen wir optimal, nicht widersprüchlich und möglichst ohne unerwünschte Beeinflussung von außen entscheiden. Manchmal sollen unsere Entscheidungen zusätzlich noch hehren gesellschaftlichen und/oder nachhaltigen Zielen genügen. Unsere Ansprüche und die Wirklichkeit klaffen jedoch oft weit auseinander. Das gilt dann noch verstärkt, wenn wir z. B. als Manager oder Politiker für andere Entscheidungen treffen sollen. Die wissenschaftlich belegten Hintergründe für unser Scheitern sind uns oft nicht bekannt und das Bewusstsein für die damit verbundenen Probleme ist wenig vorhanden. Das Buch erläutert eben jene Hintergründe und zeigt anhand anschaulicher, unterhaltsamer Praxisbeispiele die Bedeutung der Thematik. Darüber hinaus werden Leitlinien angeboten wie tendenziell besser entschieden werden kann.

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This book contains the successful invited submissions to a Special Issue of Symmetry in the subject area of "Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making". We invited contributions addressing novel techniques and tools for decision making (e.g., group or multi-criteria decision making) with notions that overcome the problem of finding the membership degree of each element as in Zadeh's original model. We could garner interesting articles on a variety of setups as well as applications. As a result, this book includes some novel techniques and tools for decision making, such as instrumental tools for analysis (correlation coefficients, similarity measures, aggregation operators) in various settings and novel methodological contributions (discrete optimization with fuzzy constraints, COMET, or fuzzy bi-matrix games) and applications (to project delivery systems, maintenance performance in industry, group emergencies, pedestrians flows, valuation of assets, water pollution control, or aquaculture enterprise sustainability). The published submissions cover models like fuzzy soft sets, hesitant fuzzy sets, (fuzzy) soft rough sets, neutrosophic sets, as well as other hybrid models.

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