Book Reviews

Laudon, Kenneth C. and Laudon, Jane P. 1988, Management Information Systems, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 749 pp., $32.00—reviewed by Mohammad Dadashzadeh

Chacko, George 1986, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Productivity: US Japan Concomitant Coalitions, Petrocilli Books, Princeton, New Jersey, 335 pp., $45.00—reviewed by Wilbet E. Wilhelm

Turban, Efraim 1988, Decision Support and Expert Systems, Managerial Perspectives, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 697 pages, $36.75—reviewed by Mark G. Simkin and Fritz H. Grupe

Minoux, Michel 1986, Mathematical Programming: Theory and Algorithms, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 489 pp., $66.95—reviewed by Eric S. Theise

Merkhofer, Miley 1986, Decision Science and Social Risk Management, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 330 pp., $39.50—reviewed by Dennis J. Hanseman

Estabrooks, Maurice F. 1989, Programmed Capitalism, M. E. Sharpe Inc., New York, 207 pp., $24.95—reviewed by Holger Hinz

Allio, Robert J. 1988, The Practical Strategist, Business and Corporate Strategies in the 1990s, Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 212 pp., $29.95—reviewed by B. R. Baliga

Nahmias, Steven 1988, Production and Operations Analysis, Richard D. Irwin, Homewood, Illinois, 693 pp., $42.95—reviewed by David Simchi-Levi

Hayes, Mike and Tomes, Anne 1988, Practical Operations Management, Philip Allan Publishers Limited, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 249 + xi pp., $19.95 paperback, $49.95 cloth—reviewed by Ruth A. Maurer

Niwa, Kiyoshi 1989, Knowledge-Based Risk Management in Engineering: A Case Study in Human-Computer Cooperative Systems, John Wiley and Sons, New York, xi + 132 pp., $29.95—reviewed by Ayodele O. Mobolurin