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A fuzzy model of managerial decision making incorporating risk and ambiguity aversion

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In this paper we describe how some well-known deficiencies of managerial decision making models can be overcome by combining previous work of Zebda [Zebda 1984] and de Korvin [de Korvin et al. 1995] with Keynes's conventional coefficient c which has recently been revived by Brady [Brady 1994], Furthermore, in this paper we will show how the described approach can be applied to the standard problem of managerial decision making, especially when selecting the policy that promises the highest gain.

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de Korvin, A., Quirchmayr, G., Hashemi, S. (1995). A fuzzy model of managerial decision making incorporating risk and ambiguity aversion. In: Revell, N., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0049111

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