
Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems
A Vision for Management Science
Baruch Fischhoff(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 6. February 2025
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-19-889390-5 (ISBN)
Description
People often face complex, novel, fateful, and wildly unbounded problems throughout their lives. In their work, disciplinary scientists hone their wisdom on the complexities of necessarily bounded problems. Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems offers a vision for schools of management science to bring these worlds together, by doing more of what they do best, co-creating solutions in ways that serve the world and the disciplines.
Disciplinary wisdom is illustrated with studies eliciting beliefs and preferences. Collaboration is illustrated with a wide variety of applications, including climate, energy, health, security, technology, and natural disasters. The proposed strategy, for bonding bounded disciplines, offers a realistic path forward, at a time when the value of academia is sometimes questioned by the public, students, and even some of its members.
Disciplinary wisdom is illustrated with studies eliciting beliefs and preferences. Collaboration is illustrated with a wide variety of applications, including climate, energy, health, security, technology, and natural disasters. The proposed strategy, for bonding bounded disciplines, offers a realistic path forward, at a time when the value of academia is sometimes questioned by the public, students, and even some of its members.
Reviews / Votes
Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems cements BaruchFischhoff's legacy as a public intellectual. For 40 years he has walked the talk by immersing himself in the practical application of decision science to pressing societal concerns. Simultaneously, he has talked the walk through groundbreaking research and communication efforts, culminating in the 2023Clarendon Lectures. In this volume he has written the book on how to confront the wicked problems of our time. It belongs on the shelf of every organizational scholar interested in the nexus of science, policy, and societal well-being. * Alan D. Meyer, Administrative Sciences Quarterly *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-889390-5 (9780198893905)
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Person
Baruch Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been since 1987. He has also held positions at Decision Research (Eugene, Oregon) and the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit (Cambridge). He is an elected member of the (US) National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine, and he has been an advisor to many governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Author
Howard Heinz University Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and TechnologyHoward Heinz University Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
Content
1: Bounding Complexity: The Wisdom of Conscious Blinders
2: Sciences (in)Action: A Success and a Failure in Confronting Complexity
3: Decision Science: Boundedly Rational Study of Rationality
4: Questions of Competence: Disciplined Empathy
5: Slow Science (Beliefs)
6: Slow Science (Preferences)
7: A Strategy for Bonding Bounded Disciplines
8: A Vision for Management Science
9: Change (in)Action
10: Management Science as a Bonding Discipline
2: Sciences (in)Action: A Success and a Failure in Confronting Complexity
3: Decision Science: Boundedly Rational Study of Rationality
4: Questions of Competence: Disciplined Empathy
5: Slow Science (Beliefs)
6: Slow Science (Preferences)
7: A Strategy for Bonding Bounded Disciplines
8: A Vision for Management Science
9: Change (in)Action
10: Management Science as a Bonding Discipline