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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.
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Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation 9 Adiel Teixeira de Almeida Danielle Costa Morais Hannu Nurmi Systems, Procedures and Voting Rules in Context A Primer for Voting Rule Selection Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation Volume 9 Series Editor Melvin F. Shakun, New York University, New York, USA The book series, Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation - as an extension of the journal, Group Decision and Negotiation - is motivated by unifying approaches to group decision and negotiation processes. These processes are purposeful, adaptive and complex cybernetic and self-organizing and involve relation and coordination in multiplayer, multicriteria, ill-structured, evolving dynamic problems in which players (agents) both cooperate and conflict. Group decision and negotiation involves the whole process or flow of activities relevant to group decision and negotiation such as, communication and information sharing, problem definition (representation) and evolution, alternative generation, social-emotional interaction, coordination, leadership, and the resulting action choice. Areas of application include intraorganizational coordination (as in local/global strategy, operations management and integrated design, production, finance, marketing and distribution e.g., as for new products), computer supported collaborative work, labor-management negotiation, interorganizational negotiation (business, government and nonprofits), electronic negotiation and commerce, mobile technology, culture and negotiation, intercultural and international relations and negotiation, globalization, terrorism, environmental negotiation, etc. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5587 Adiel Teixeira de Almeida Danielle Costa Morais Hannu Nurmi • • Systems, Procedures and Voting Rules in Context A Primer for Voting Rule Selection 123 Adiel Teixeira de Almeida Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) Recife, Brazil Danielle Costa Morais Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) Recife, Brazil Hannu Nurmi University of Turku Turku, Finland ISSN 1871-935X Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation ISBN 978-3-030-30954-1 ISBN 978-3-030-30955-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30955-8 (eBook) © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from th