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Can Novices Create Alternatives of The Same Quality as Experts?
The quality of alternatives is crucial for making good decisions. The process of generating high-quality alternatives can be enhanced by using decision makers’ objectives…
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Recommendations about decision-making for California ministry of transportation
The California Department of Transportation has a budget of approximately US$ 10 billion over four years for repairing the infrastructure of California’s freeways and…
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A Media-Specific Balanced Scorecard Based on Value-Focused Thinking
Veröffentlichung Kunz, Reinhard; Siebert, Johannes U.; Mütterlein, Joschka. „A Media-Specific Balanced Scorecard Based on Value-Focused Thinking“, Journal of Media Business Studies, 13(4), 2016, 257-275.…
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Combining Value‐Focused Thinking and Balanced Scorecard to Improve Decision‐Making in Strategic Management
Zielorientierung ist der Schlüssel zum strategischen Management. In diesem Bereich ist die Balanced Scorecard eines der am häufigsten verwendeten Managementinstrumente. Sie strukturiert die Hauptziele…
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Designing a Media-Specific Balanced Scorecard by Applying Value-Focused Thinking
The Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan and Norton 1992) is one of the five management tools used most often and has been implemented by nearly 40…
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Developing and Validating the Multidimensional Proactive Decision-Making Scale
On the basis of an extensive interdisciplinary literature review proactive decision-making (PDM) is conceptualised as a multidimensional concept. We conduct five studies with over…
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Identifying and Structuring the Objectives of the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (Isil) and its Followers
This study addressed three questions: 1. What are the objectives of the leaders of ISIL? 2. What are the objectives of the followers of…
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Die Ziele des Islamischen Staats: Neue Studie zu den Führungspersonen des IS und seinen Anhängern
What does the Islamic State want? Dr. Johannes Siebert at the University of Bayreuth and U.S. researchers at the University of Southern California (USC)…
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Deciding without tunnel vision – How the creative search for alternatives pays off
“There is no alternative!” was how British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher justified her economic and social policy reform program in the late 1970s. This…