Research in the Decision Sciences for Global Business Best Papers from the 2013 Annual Conference

This volume brings together important new research in decision science, capturing the crucial role of local context in a globalized, standardized world. Assembling the best work presented at the 2013 Conference of the European Decision Sciences Institute, it considers classic decision science problems from a new perspective, offering insights for improving decision-making in government, business, healthcare, education, manufacturing, the military, and beyond. The papers in Common Disciplines that Separate Us embrace the duality of globally determined local contexts, offering new approaches to decision-making related to:

• Strengthening national economic competitiveness
• Reforming the public sector and higher education
• Deploying information technology more effectively throughout government
• Making healthcare policy that achieves better outcomes at lower cost
• Analyzing social networks
• Improving processes via data visualization, modeling, and simulation
• Gaining more value from enterprise business intelligence
• Offshoring, nearshoring, "right shoring," and other key manufacturing decisions
• Improving supply chain performance
• And much more

The papers collected here will be valuable to wide audiences of faculty, researchers, and students in diverse programs covering business, public administration, and economics; and for others interested in the frontiers of decision science.

GYULA VASTAG (GyQr, Hungary) is Professor at Széchenyi University. He has previously served as Professor at Pannon University, Managing Director of the Corvinus School of Management at Corvinus University of Budapest, and Professor and Area Coordinator of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the CEU Business School. He is Founding Member and Member of the Executive Board of the European Decision Sciences Institute, and VP for Global Activities of DSI, where he has also served as Program and Track Chair of DSI conferences. He spent almost two decades in the US on the faculties of the Kelley School of Business (Indiana University), The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management (Michigan State), and The Kenan-Flagler Business School (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). His interests include global operations/supply chain management, service operations management, and environmental management strategies. He was Founding Editor of the Pannon Management Review, is Associate Editor of the Decision Sciences Journal, and serves on the editorial board of the Central European Business Review and Vezetéstudomány.

1. Introduction and Overview

2. Plenary Papers

3. Competitiveness Rankings and National Economies

4. Evidence Based Decision-Making in the Public Sector

5. Higher Education Reforms

6. E-Government: Contemporary Research Theories and Methods for Supporting ICT Uptake in Public Services

7. Health Care Policies and Decision-Making

8. Social Network Analysis in Decisions

9. Process Improvement by Data Visualization, Modeling and Simulation Techniques

10. Enterprise Business Intelligence

11. Globalizing Manufacturing: Offshoring, Nearshoring, Right Shoring

12. Researching and Practicing the Science of Supply Chains

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