Theorising strategic investment decision-making using strong structuration theory

A Case Study of Capital Investment Decision-Making: Exploring Practice and (Structuration) Theory

Strong Structuration Theory and Management Accounting Research

Strong structuration theory is a recent development in social theory that, among other attributes, makes the gap between ontological concepts and empirical research easier to negotiate. Giddens’ structuration theory is a developed ontology-in-general explaining at an abstract level how structure and agency are interrelated, being a duality in which neither can exist without the other. Strong st...

Using genetic algorithms for investment decision-making

learning techniques, such as neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic, are achieving more acceptance because of significant advances in information technology. Until recently, these computer algorithms were considered too timeconsuming and computationally hungry to be practical. During the past decade, however, a number of financial institutions have successfully applied these method...

Fuzzy Investment Decision Making

Recent literature on fuzzy numbers is rich of several approaches to approximate operations between fuzzy numbers. The desirable feature is to preserve the real shape of the fuzzy numbers resulting from the operations, without loosing in simplicity and applicability and in goodness of the approximations. In some recent papers we introduce a representation of the fuzzy numbers, based on the use o...

Strategic Decision Making

This paper introduces a methodology for strategic intervention in collective aeclsion making. The methodology is based on (1) a decomposition of the problem into a few main controversial issues, (2) systematic interviews of subject area specialists to obtain a specification of the decision setting, consisting of a list of stakeholders with their capabilities, positions, and salience on each of ...