Making the right business decisions

Confronting the risks of terrorism: making the right decisions

Making decisions that matter How improving executive decision-making can lead to better business outcomes

Making the right decisions? - A Game Theoretical Analyse of the decision-making in the WTO Dispute Settlement

This theory testing study investigates the decision-making of the member states in the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO, using a game theoretical approach. Game theory has its origins in political philosophy and can thus be valuable when analysing the behaviour of states in international regimes. Through using the specific game theory model Stag Hunt, this study aims to examine if such a mode...

Making the right exceptions

This paper provides a principled answer to the question of how todeal with conflicting default rules. It does so in two ways: semanticallywithin a circumscriptive theory, and syntactically by supplying analgorithm for inheritance networks. Arguments that can be expressedin both frameworks are valid on the circumscriptive account if andonly if the inheritance algorithm ha...

Cultural implications of business strategy-making

The central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. This necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. Environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. Doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...