Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xv, 111 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. Long term economic implications of automation. Prospects for office and factory automation. Impact of computers on management decision making. Techniques for programmed decision making, heuristic problem solving. Business organization likely to be created by new methods of decision making.

Subject

1. Industrial management
2. Automation > Economic aspects
3. Decision making
4. Management information systems
5. Decision Making, Computer-Assisted
6. Management Information Systems
7. Decision Making
8. decision making
9. Management information systems
10. Automation > Economic aspects
11. Decision making
12. Industrial management
13. Management
14. Automatisering
15. Besluitvorming
16. long term
17. economic implication
18. automation
19. computer
20. management
21. business organization
22. Human-machine systems
23. Business > Data processing
24. Gestion d'entreprise
25. Automatisation > Aspect économique
26. long terme
27. conséquences économiques
28. automatisation
29. ordinateur
30. gestion
31. prise de décision
32. organisation de l'entreprise
33. largo plazo
34. consecuencias económicas
35. automatización
36. computadora
37. administración
38. toma de decisiones
39. organización de la empresa

Contents

1. Preface -- Introduction: computers and automation -- I. the long-range economic effects of automation -- II. Will the corporation be managed by machines? -- III. The new science of management decision -- The executive as decision maker -- Traditional decision-making methods -- New techniques for programmed decision making -- Heuristic problem solving -- Organizational design: man-machine systems for decision-making.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Edition of 1960 and rev. ed. (1977) published under title: The new science of management decision.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliographical references included in footnotes.