TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sterman,John
TI  - Business dynamics: systems thinking and modeling for a complex world 
SN  - 9780072389159
AV  - HD30.2 .S7835 2000
U1  - 658.4038011 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Irwin/McGraw-Hill
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - System theory
KW  - Management information systems
KW  - Administraci©đn industrial
KW  - Teor©Ưa de sistemas
KW  - Sistemas de informaci©đn en administraci©đn
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 925-946) and index; Perspective and Process --; Learning in and about Complex Systems --; Learning Is a Feedback Process --; Barriers to Learning --; Requirements for Successful Learning in Complex Systems --; System Dynamics in Action --; Applications of System Dynamics --; Automobile Leasing Strategy: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow --; On Time and Under Budget: The Dynamics of Project Management --; Playing the Maintenance Game --; Summary: Principles for Successful Use of System Dynamics --; The Modeling Process --; The Purpose of Modeling: Managers as Organization Designers --; The Client and the Modeler --; Steps of the Modeling Process --; Modeling Is Iterative --; Overview of the Modeling Process --; Structure and Behavior of Dynamic Systems --; Fundamental Modes of Dynamic Behavior --; Interactions of the Fundamental Modes --; Other Modes of Behavior --; Tools for Systems Thinking --; Causal Loop Diagrams --; Causal Diagram Notation --; Guidelines for Causal Loop Diagrams --; Process Point: Developing Causal Diagrams from Interview Data --; Conceptualization Case Study: Managing Your Workload --; Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and the Feedback Structure of Markets --; Explaining Policy Resistance: Traffic Congestion --; Stocks and Flows --; Stocks, Flows, and Accumulation --; Identifying Stocks and Flows --; Mapping Stocks and Flows --; Dynamics of Stocks and Flows --; Relationship between Stocks and Flows --; System Dynamics in Action: Global Warming --; System Dynamics in Action: The War on Drugs --; Closing the Loop: Dynamics of Simple Structures --; First-Order Systems
N2  - CD-ROM contains: Simulation software and Models including ithink,Powersim, and Vensim
ER  -