SGER: Toward a Decision Theory for Design and Organizations

9971794由这笔小额探索性研究补助金资助的研究的目的是在工程设计的最广泛背景下研究多准则决策，包括为实现这些决策而进行的产品/流程/服务和组织设计。这项研究建立在阿罗的不可能性定理的基础上，该定理实质上表明所有的多准则决策方法都是有缺陷的。第一个目标将是探索并在可能的情况下发展一种决策理论，将导致令人担忧的决策的缺陷降至最低。第二个目标是将组织设计也视为一个决策过程，并将多标准决策原则也应用于此。如果成功，这项研究将提供对现有工程设计决策方法中存在的缺陷的见解，并将导致将此类缺陷的影响降至最低的方法。这些决定影响了价值近1万亿美元的美国企业，即使是很小的改进也会带来巨大的经济效益。

9971794 The goal of the research funded by this Small Grant for Exploratory Research is to examine multi-criteria decision making in the broadest context of engineering design, including both product/process/service and organization design for their realization. This research builds upon Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, which essentially states that all multi-criteria decision making approaches are flawed. The first objective will be to explore and, if possible, develop a theory of decision making that will minimize flaws causing worrisome decisions. The second objective will be to view organizational design also as a decision-making process and to apply the multi-criteria decision-making principles to this as well. If successful, this research will provide insights into the flaws present in most extant approaches to engineering design decision making, and it will lead to methods for the minimization of the impacts of such flaws. These decisions affect nearly a trillion dollars worth of American enterprise, and even small improvements will have enormous economic benefit.