Making management decisions /
William Emory and Powell Niland.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1968.
- ix, 292 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.
Includes index.
The decision process -- Purposes and goals -- Task delineation -- Solution finding: Proposal search -- Solution finding: Idea Evaluation -- The role of quantitative techniques in business decision making -- Probability theory and statistical decision making -- A simple inventory model -- Linear programming -- Network techniques: The critical path method and PERT -- Queueing theory, simulation and the Monte Carlo method -- Other quantitative techniques -- Problems in the use of the new techniques -- Decision making: Summary and problems in implementation.