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 inCommon Disciplines that Separate Usembrace 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.