Book Reviews

Adams, Everett E., Jr. and Ebert, Ronald J., Production and Operations Management: Concepts, Models, and Behavior , 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1982, $24.95---reviewed by Jack C. Hayya and Chao-Hsien ChuCheckland, Peter, Systems Thinking, Systems Practice . John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and New York, 1981, xiv + 330 pp., $33.50---reviewed by Robert E. MacholMcClain, John O. and Thomas, L. Joseph, Operations Management Production of Goods and Services , Prentice-Hall, 1980, $26.95---reviewed by Jack C. Hayya and Chao-Hsien ChuRichardson, George P. and Pugh, Alexander L. III, Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with Dynamo , MIT Press, 1981, $25.00---reviewed by Paul GrayGarcia, C. B. and Zangwill, W. I., Pathways to Solutions, Fixed-Points, and Equilibria , Prentice-Hall Series in Computational Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1981, 495 pp., $32.50---reviewed by C. E. LemkeAdam, Nabil R. and Dogramaci, Ali, Editors, Productivity Analysis at the Organizational Level , Studies in Productivity Analysis, Volume III, Kluwer, 190 Old Derby Street, Hingham, Massachusetts 02043, 1981, 181 pp., $25.00---reviewed by Martin K. StarrTempest, Paul (ed.), “International Energy Options: An Agenda for the 1980's” Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain (U.S.A.), and Graham and Trotman (U.K.), Copyright 1981 by the International Association of Energy Economists, 304 pp., no price stated---reviewed by Reuven KarniEl-Hawary, M. E. and Christenson, G. S., Optimal Economic Operation of Electric Power Systems , Academic Press, New York, 1979, 278 pp., $32.50---reviewed by Derek BunnPapadimitriou, C. H. and Steiglitz, K., Combinatorial Optimization , Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1982, 496 pp., $34.00---reviewed by K. TruemperAxelrod, C. Warren, Computer Productivity , John Wiley Intersciences, New York, 1982, 254 pp., $24.95 and Sprague, R. H. and Carlson, E. Building Effective Decision Support Systems , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1982, 329 pp., $24.95---reviewed by Stephen R. Ruth