Systems, Procedures And Voting Rules In Context: A Primer For Voting Rule Selection

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This book deals with the choice of methods to be applied in the decision processes within organizations. It discusses the use of voting procedures for group decision in business organizations, focusing on decision-making contexts. Within this book the reader explores the relevant part of the decision-making process consisting of choosing the voting procedures and recognizing the drawbacks of that procedure. This book includes a unique feature of providing a framework for choosing the voting procedure that is the most appropriate for a particular business decision process. The book is useful for a broad researcher audience dealing with the group decision making processes within business organizations and for practitioners and students working in the group decision and negotiation field. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Voting Rules in Context (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 1-5 Calculus of Consent (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 7-12 The Majority Rule (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 13-20 More Than Two Alternatives (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 21-30 Strategic Aspects (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 31-49 Sequential Voting by Veto (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 51-56 Criterion Based Choice of Rules (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 57-66 Two Procedures Based on Ratings (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 67-71 Qualified Majorities and Expert Choice (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 73-86 Representativeness (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 87-93 Deliberation and Voting (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 95-100 The Business Context (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 101-108 Overview of MCDM/A Methods (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 109-125 An MCDM/A Framework for Choosing Rules (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 127-146 Choosing a Voting Procedure for Assessing the Readiness of Technology for Generating Energy (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 147-162 Choosing a Voting Procedure for a Water Resources Management Problem (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 163-175 Choosing a Voting Procedure to Identify Technology for Generating Renewable Electric Power (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 177-198 Choosing a Voting Procedure for a Group Decision Support System (GRUS) (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 199-212 When Does a Given Procedure Work Best? (Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Danielle Costa Morais, Hannu Nurmi)....Pages 213-218