The purpose of this volume is to provide managers and entrepreneurs with a readily available tool to support their daily decision-making so that they know their decisions are mostly reliable and made on the basis of a sound scientific foundation, and scholars with a brand new approach to the research of managerial decision-making. To accomplish this practically significant and theoretically important outcome, instead of data mining and anecdotal analysis, this book establishes results by employing systems science and logic reasoning in general and the systemic yoyo model in particular. This abstract while intuitive in approach avoids all the serious limitations of econometric methods and anecdotal analyses.

这本书的目的是为管理者和企业家提供一个现成的工具，以支持他们的日常决策，使他们知道他们的决定大多是可靠的，并在良好的科学基础的基础上，学者们用全新的方法来研究管理决策。为了完成这一具有实践意义和理论重要性的成果，本书不采用数据挖掘和轶事分析，而是采用系统科学和逻辑推理，特别是系统yoyo模型来建立结果。这种抽象而直观的方法避免了所有严重的限制，经济计量方法和轶事分析。