Decision Sciences Institute
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The Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) is a professional association of university professors, graduate students, and practitioners whose interest lies in the application of quantitative research
and qualitative research
to the decision problems of individuals, organizations, and society. Many of the members of this academic organization are faculty members in business schools.
Members of the Institute share their research findings at DSI’s Annual Meeting (DSI’s main academic conference
), international DSI meetings, or regional conferences. The Decision Sciences Institute also publishes two journals and hosts annual award competitions for contributions to innovation education, the best case study, and best doctoral dissertation. In addition, the Institute offers job placement services, doctoral student and new faculty consortia, and a variety of professional development activities.
: “The Decision Sciences Institute advances the science and practice of decision making
. We are an international learned society
with an inclusive and cross-disciplinary philosophy. We are guided by the core values of high quality, responsiveness, and professional development
.”
Accountancy
Business Ethics
Decision Analysis
Decision Theory
Decision Support Systems
Ecommerce
Expert System
s
Finance
Hospitality Management
Information Security
Innovative Education, Instructional Design
, and Pedagogy
International Business
Knowledge Management
Leadership
Manufacturing
Management Information Systems
Management Science
Operations Management
Operations Research
Organizational Studies
Project Management
Quality Management
Service Management
Statistics
Strategic Management
Supply Chain Management
, Georgia State University. The Executive Director of the Institute is Carol J. Latta.
The first annual meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences (AIDS) was held in New Orleans in 1969. About 100 charter members were in attendance.
The Institute's first journal, Decision Sciences, was first published in 1970. In 2003, DSI began publishing a second journal, the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education (DSJIE). DSJIE publishes research on teaching and learning issues.
In 1986, the name of the organization was changed to the Decision Sciences Institute "once the name AIDS became linked in the public's mind with a newly emerging disease."
Since 1986, Carol Latta has served as the Institute's Executive Director. She was made a Fellow of DSI in 2003.
DSI is one of a handful of organizations that address solving real-world business problems. One way in which DSI distinguishes itself from similar organizations is in addressing educational issues including curriculum, pedagogy, and careers.
Attendance at the Annual Meetings is now in the range of 1300 to 1400 attendees. The Institute is an independent non-profit educational organization.
In order to further research in the decision sciences, the membership of the Decision Sciences Institute has been asked to participate in studies and surveys and the research papers published in DSI conference proceedings have been studied.
In March 2008, the Decision Sciences Institute Wikipedia entry was developed.
The honor of Fellow is occasionally awarded to DSI members for outstanding contributions in the field of decision sciences in at least two (2) of the following: research and scholarship, teaching and/or administration, and service to the Decision Sciences Institute.
2010–2011 G. Keong Leong, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
2009–2010 Ram Narasimhan, Michigan State University
2008–2009 Norma J. Harrison, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
2007–2008 Kenneth E. Kendall, Rutgers University
2006–2007 Mark M. Davis, Bentley College
2005–2006 Thomas E. Callarman, China Europe International Business School (CEIB)
2004–2005 Gary L. Ragatz, Michigan State University
2003–2004 Barbara B. Flynn, Indiana University
2002–2003 Thomas W. Jones, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
2001–2002 F. Robert Jacobs, Indiana University-Bloomington
2000–2001 Michael J. Showalter, Florida State University
1999–2000 Lee J. Krajewski, University of Notre Dame
1998–1999 Terry R. Rakes, Virginia Tech
1997–1998 James R. Evans, University of Cincinnati
1996–1997 Betty J. Whitten, University of Georgia
1995–1996 John C. Anderson, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
1994–1995 K. Roscoe Davis, University of Georgia
1993–1994 Larry P. Ritzman, Boston College
1992–1993 William C. Perkins, Indiana University-Bloomington
1991–1992 Robert E. Markland, University of South Carolina
1990–1991 Ronald J. Ebert, University of Missouri-Columbia
1989–1990 Bernard W. Taylor, III, Virginia Tech
1988–1989 William L. Berry, Ohio State University
1987–1988 James M. Clapper, Aladdin TempRite
1986–1987 William R. Darden, Deceased
1985–1986 Harvey J. Brightman, Georgia State University
1984–1985 Sang M. Lee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1983–1984 Laurence J. Moore, Virginia Tech
1982–1983 Linda G. Sprague, China Europe International Business School (CEIB)
1981–1982 Norman L. Chervany, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
1979–1981 D. Clay Whybark, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
1978–1979 John Neter, University of Georgia
1977–1978 Charles P. Bonini, Stanford University
1976–1977 Lawrence L. Schkade, University of Texas-Arlington
1975–1976 Kenneth P. Uhl, Deceased
1974–1975 Albert J. Simone, Rochester Institute of Technology
1973–1974 Gene K. Groff, Georgia State University
1972–1973 Rodger D. Collons, Drexel University
1971–1972 George W. Summers, Deceased
1969–1971 Dennis E. Grawoig, Deceased
November 20–23, 2010
San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina
San Diego, California
November 19–22, 2011
Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
November 17–20, 2012
San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco, California
DSI also sponsors subgoups referred to as regions. Each of the following regions has their own constitution and bylaws and hold regular meetings: Asia-Pacific, European, Indian subcontinent, Mexico, Midwest U.S., Northeast U.S., Southeast U.S., Southwest U.S., and Western U.S.
Academy of Management
APICS The Association for Operations Management
Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Information Systems
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
International Federation for Information Processing
Quantitative research
In the social sciences, quantitative research refers to the systematic empirical investigation of social phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques. The objective of quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical models, theories and/or hypotheses pertaining to...
and qualitative research
Qualitative research
Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such...
to the decision problems of individuals, organizations, and society. Many of the members of this academic organization are faculty members in business schools.
Members of the Institute share their research findings at DSI’s Annual Meeting (DSI’s main academic conference
Academic conference
An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...
), international DSI meetings, or regional conferences. The Decision Sciences Institute also publishes two journals and hosts annual award competitions for contributions to innovation education, the best case study, and best doctoral dissertation. In addition, the Institute offers job placement services, doctoral student and new faculty consortia, and a variety of professional development activities.
DSI’s mission
At a strategic planning retreat in Toronto, Canada, in August, 2008, the Board of Directors of DSI agreed on the following mission statementMission statement
A mission statement is a statement of the purpose of a company or organization. The mission statement should guide the actions of the organization, spell out its overall goal, provide a path, and guide decision-making...
: “The Decision Sciences Institute advances the science and practice of decision making
Decision making
Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.- Overview :Human performance in decision terms...
. We are an international learned society
Learned society
A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies,...
with an inclusive and cross-disciplinary philosophy. We are guided by the core values of high quality, responsiveness, and professional development
Professional development
Professional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning...
.”
Disciplines
Numerous disciplines and methodologies are included in the Institute’s Annual Meeting and its publications. Disciplines include, but are not limited to:Accountancy
Accountancy
Accountancy is the process of communicating financial information about a business entity to users such as shareholders and managers. The communication is generally in the form of financial statements that show in money terms the economic resources under the control of management; the art lies in...
Business Ethics
Business ethics
Business ethics is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizations.Business...
Decision Analysis
Decision analysis
Decision analysis is the discipline comprising the philosophy, theory, methodology, and professional practice necessary to address important decisions in a formal manner...
Decision Theory
Decision theory
Decision theory in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics is concerned with identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues relevant in a given decision, its rationality, and the resulting optimal decision...
Decision Support Systems
Ecommerce
Expert System
Expert system
In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system that emulates the decision-making ability of a human expert. Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning about knowledge, like an expert, and not by following the procedure of a developer as is the case in...
s
Finance
Hospitality Management
Hospitality management
Hospitality management is the academic study of the hospitality industry. A degree in Hospitality management is often conferred from either a university college dedicated to the studies of hospitality management or a business school with a department in hospitality management studies...
Information Security
Information security
Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction....
Innovative Education, Instructional Design
Instructional design
Instructional Design is the practice of creating "instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing." The process consists broadly of determining the current state and needs of the learner, defining the end goal of instruction, and...
, and Pedagogy
Pedagogy
Pedagogy is the study of being a teacher or the process of teaching. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction....
International Business
International Business
International business is a term used to collectively describe all commercial transactions that take place between two or more regions, countries and nations beyond their political boundary...
Knowledge Management
Knowledge management
Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...
Leadership
Leadership
Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged.-Theories:...
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
Management Information Systems
Management Science
Operations Management
Operations management
Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resources as needed, and...
Operations Research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
Organizational Studies
Organizational studies
Organizational studies, sometimes known as organizational science, encompass the systematic study and careful application of knowledge about how people act within organizations...
Project Management
Project management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
Quality Management
Quality management
The term Quality management has a specific meaning within many business sectors. This specific definition, which does not aim to assure 'good quality' by the more general definition , can be considered to have four main components: quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality...
Service Management
Service management
Service management is integrated into supply chain management as the joint between the actual sales and the customer. The aim of high performance service management is to optimize the service-intensive supply chains, which are usually more complex than the typical finished-goods supply chain...
Statistics
Strategic Management
Strategic management
Strategic management is a field that deals with the major intended and emergent initiatives taken by general managers on behalf of owners, involving utilization of resources, to enhance the performance of firms in their external environments...
Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management
Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...
Journals of the Decision Sciences Institute
The Decision Sciences Institute publishes two academic journals, Decision Sciences and Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. Both journals are printed and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell and have subscriptions totaling 5,000. In addition, the publication Decision Line, features columns that inform the membership of past, present, and future events as well as articles that raise and attempt to answer current problems in many of the academic areas covered by DSI.Regions of the Decision Sciences Institute
There are currently eight (8) regions. There are five regions in the United States and three (4) outside the U.S. (Europe, Mexico, Asia-Pacific, and the Indian subcontinent). The regions operate independently within the Institute. Each region elects its own officers and one representative who serves on the Institute’s Board of Directors.DSI’s headquarters
DSI’s home office is located in Atlanta, Georgia, where it receives support from the J. Mack Robinson College of BusinessJ. Mack Robinson College of Business
The J. Mack Robinson College of Business is one of the six colleges at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Robinson’s offerings include a Flex M.B.A., Professional M.B.A., Executive M.B.A., Specialized Master's programs, and undergraduate program....
, Georgia State University. The Executive Director of the Institute is Carol J. Latta.
History
In November 1968, a small group of faculty members met in Atlanta, Georgia to propose an academic society that would encourage interdisciplinary (now cross-disciplinary) participation in the new field of decision sciences.The first annual meeting of the American Institute for Decision Sciences (AIDS) was held in New Orleans in 1969. About 100 charter members were in attendance.
The Institute's first journal, Decision Sciences, was first published in 1970. In 2003, DSI began publishing a second journal, the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education (DSJIE). DSJIE publishes research on teaching and learning issues.
In 1986, the name of the organization was changed to the Decision Sciences Institute "once the name AIDS became linked in the public's mind with a newly emerging disease."
Since 1986, Carol Latta has served as the Institute's Executive Director. She was made a Fellow of DSI in 2003.
DSI is one of a handful of organizations that address solving real-world business problems. One way in which DSI distinguishes itself from similar organizations is in addressing educational issues including curriculum, pedagogy, and careers.
Attendance at the Annual Meetings is now in the range of 1300 to 1400 attendees. The Institute is an independent non-profit educational organization.
In order to further research in the decision sciences, the membership of the Decision Sciences Institute has been asked to participate in studies and surveys and the research papers published in DSI conference proceedings have been studied.
In March 2008, the Decision Sciences Institute Wikipedia entry was developed.
The honor of Fellow is occasionally awarded to DSI members for outstanding contributions in the field of decision sciences in at least two (2) of the following: research and scholarship, teaching and/or administration, and service to the Decision Sciences Institute.
Presidents of the Decision Sciences Institute
2011–2012 Krishna S. Dhir, Berry College2010–2011 G. Keong Leong, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
2009–2010 Ram Narasimhan, Michigan State University
2008–2009 Norma J. Harrison, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
2007–2008 Kenneth E. Kendall, Rutgers University
2006–2007 Mark M. Davis, Bentley College
2005–2006 Thomas E. Callarman, China Europe International Business School (CEIB)
2004–2005 Gary L. Ragatz, Michigan State University
2003–2004 Barbara B. Flynn, Indiana University
2002–2003 Thomas W. Jones, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
2001–2002 F. Robert Jacobs, Indiana University-Bloomington
2000–2001 Michael J. Showalter, Florida State University
1999–2000 Lee J. Krajewski, University of Notre Dame
1998–1999 Terry R. Rakes, Virginia Tech
1997–1998 James R. Evans, University of Cincinnati
1996–1997 Betty J. Whitten, University of Georgia
1995–1996 John C. Anderson, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
1994–1995 K. Roscoe Davis, University of Georgia
1993–1994 Larry P. Ritzman, Boston College
1992–1993 William C. Perkins, Indiana University-Bloomington
1991–1992 Robert E. Markland, University of South Carolina
1990–1991 Ronald J. Ebert, University of Missouri-Columbia
1989–1990 Bernard W. Taylor, III, Virginia Tech
1988–1989 William L. Berry, Ohio State University
1987–1988 James M. Clapper, Aladdin TempRite
1986–1987 William R. Darden, Deceased
1985–1986 Harvey J. Brightman, Georgia State University
1984–1985 Sang M. Lee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1983–1984 Laurence J. Moore, Virginia Tech
1982–1983 Linda G. Sprague, China Europe International Business School (CEIB)
1981–1982 Norman L. Chervany, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
1979–1981 D. Clay Whybark, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
1978–1979 John Neter, University of Georgia
1977–1978 Charles P. Bonini, Stanford University
1976–1977 Lawrence L. Schkade, University of Texas-Arlington
1975–1976 Kenneth P. Uhl, Deceased
1974–1975 Albert J. Simone, Rochester Institute of Technology
1973–1974 Gene K. Groff, Georgia State University
1972–1973 Rodger D. Collons, Drexel University
1971–1972 George W. Summers, Deceased
1969–1971 Dennis E. Grawoig, Deceased
DSI annual meetings
The Decision Sciences Institute offers an Annual Meeting open to anyone who wants to participate in the dissemination of knowledge concerning the decision sciences.November 20–23, 2010
San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina
San Diego, California
November 19–22, 2011
Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
November 17–20, 2012
San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco, California
DSI also sponsors subgoups referred to as regions. Each of the following regions has their own constitution and bylaws and hold regular meetings: Asia-Pacific, European, Indian subcontinent, Mexico, Midwest U.S., Northeast U.S., Southeast U.S., Southwest U.S., and Western U.S.
Other Similar Organizations
The following is a list of professional organizations similar in size and scope to the Decision Sciences Institute. Some members of the Institute also belong to these organizations:Academy of Management
Academy of Management
The Academy of Management is a professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. The Academy of Management was established in 1936...
APICS The Association for Operations Management
Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
Association for Information Systems
Association for Information Systems
The Association for Information Systems is an international professional organization serving as the premier global organization for academics specializing in Information Systems...
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Association of Information Technology Professionals
The Association of Information Technology Professionals is a professional association that focuses on information technology education. The group is a non-profit national group, but its activities are performed by about 200 local chapters organized on a geographic basis, and a similar number of...
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research and management science...
International Federation for Information Processing
International Federation for Information Processing
The International Federation for Information Processing is an umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information technology. It is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with offices in Laxenburg, Austria...