Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents: Foundations of management science: Management science and organizational decisions -- Models in organizational decision making -- Analytical tools for management science: Essential mathematical concepts -- Fundamentals of probability -- Management science and decision analysis: Organizational decision making -- Bayesian decision analysis -- Management science in resource allocation: The assignment model -- The transportation model -- Linear programming: the graphical method -- Linear programming: the simplex method -- Management science and inventory control: Inventory and production models -- Probabilistic inventory-control models -- Analysis and prediction with management science models: Queuing models -- Simulation -- Markov models -- Network models -- Management science in organizations: an overview: The convergence of management and management structure --