COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT
Department of Management Sciences And Decision Making
Degrees Offered:B.B.A., M.B.A., EMBA, Ph.D.
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Chair: Shih, Hsu-shih
The Department
This department was established in 1972 when the Graduate Institute of Management Sciences offered the master's degree in management sciences concentrating on system analysis. Two more concentrations, management sciences and management information systems, were added in the following year. In 1975, it began to offer the Ph.D. degree in management sciences. A concentration on managerial economics was added to the master's program in 1978; and the concentration of management information systems was expanded and became the Graduate Institute of Information Engineering in the same year. In 1992, the concentration of system analysis was expanded and became the Graduate Institute of Management Information Systems while the concentration of managerial economics was expanded and became the Graduate Institute of International Business. In 1993, the master's program was divided into two groups: Group A is a quantitative group and group B is a general management group. In 1998, the name of this graduate institute of management sciences was changed into the Department of Management Sciences, offering an undergraduate degree in management sciences. In the academic year of 2002, the department was transformed into two divisions: Department of Management Sciences and Decision Making that offers the undergraduate degree, and the Graduate Institute of Management Sciences that offers MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. degrees.
Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Sheng, Ching-lai ; Yang, Wei-tzen
Chair Professor
Chang, Horng-jinh
Professors
Ou-Yang, Liang-yu; Chen, Hai-ming; Huang, Wen-tao ; Liao, Shu-hsien ; Shih, Hsu-shih ; Chuang, Chung-chu
Associate Professors
Ni, Yen-sen ; Lou, Kuo-ren ; Chen, Ding-yuan ; Lee, Hsu-hua
Assistant Professors
Chen, I-fei
Degree Requirements
The Department of Management Sciences and Decision Making offers the undergraduate degree, and the Graduate Institute of Management Sciences offers MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. degrees.
- Requirements for a degree of B.B.A. in Management Sciences and Decision Making:
Successful completion of 141 credits of courses, including 106 credits of required courses and 35 credits of elective courses, where at least 23 credits of elective courses have to be selected from courses offered by the Department. - Requirements for a Master's degree in Management Sciences:
Successful completion of 42 credits of courses. Students are also required to submit a written thesis completed under the supervision of a faculty member and pass an oral examination. - Requirements for a EMBA Master's degree in Business Administration:
Successful completion of 39 credits of courses, including 30 credits of required courses offered by the Department. Students are also required to submit a written master's thesis completed under the supervision of a faculty member and pass an oral examination. - Requirements for a Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences
Successful completion of 36 credits of courses, including 2 credits of the required course "University Eduction and Instruction" and 8 credits of seminar courses required.
Students are also required to submit a written doctoral dissertation completed under the supervision of a faculty member, and pass an oral examination. There needs to be at least two research papers published before the doctoral dissertation, including at least one research paper published in any journal listed in SCI, SSCI, A&HCI or E.I., and at least one research paper published in another journal without any citation index.
Course Descriptions
Undergraduate Courses
A1376 Ability of Expressing in Spoken and Written Chinese (0/3) This course is to train the skills of expression in the Chinese language.
B0033 Essentials of Civil Law (3/0) This course discusses the Civil Law and its development.
B0071 Investments (0/3) This course teaches the application of management in marketing.
B0130 Intermediate Microeconomics (3/0) This course covers major microeconomic concepts, theories, tools and their applications. The goal is to provide students a better understanding about analytical methods used in microeconomics, so hopefully we can view the world from a more rational perspective.
B0147 Financial Analysis (3/0) This course offers lectures related to financial statement analysis.
B0173 Commercial Law (0/3) This course discusses Business Law and some cases.
B0260 Organizational Behavior (3/0) This course offers the basic model and its content in organizing.
B0302 Economics (3/0) This course teaches elemental theories and development of economics.
B0373 Intermediate Macroeconomics (0/3) This course introduces major macroeconomic concepts, theories and their applications. The goal is to provide students a better understanding about today's economic environment, so hopefully we can explain the past, and predict the future.
B0680 Real Estate Investment and Management (0/3) This course will include two specialties, "Real Estate Investment" and "Real Estate Marketing Analysis." The main purpose of this course is to provide a flavor of the numerous and diverse areas of theory and application of real estate investment and marketing analysis. This course introduces the following sections: the basic concept of real estate investment, real estate investment decision-making analysis, real estate marketing and boom analysis, real estate financial analysis approaches and investment risk analysis, real estate payment rate, real estate management and price analysis, real estate securities, real estate finance, and other important related issues for real estate investment and marketing analysis.
E1034 Introduction to Computers (2/2) This course provides basic knowledge of information and its development.
M0003 Human Resources Management (0/3) This course provides theories of human resources management.
M0064 Production Management (3/0) This course applies theories of management to production.
M0066 Production and Operations Management (3/0) The course gives an overview of production and operations management, including its activities, concepts, and analyses.
M0115 Multivariate Analysis (0/3) The following topics are included in this course: principal component analysis, canonical correlation, discriminate analysis and cluster analysis.
M0142 Marketing Management (0/3) This course teaches the application of management in marketing.
M0153 Operations Research (3/0) This course studies basic methods and applications thereof.
M0166 Systems Analysis (0/3) This course offers a general view of managerial decision making with methods and applications.
M0188 Sampling Methods (0/3) This course analyzes different methods of sampling and its application.
M0271 Financial Management (3/0) This course is an application of financial management.
M0339 Accounting (I) (2/2) This course provides the basic knowledge of accounting.
M0344 Data Processing (2/2) This course helps students operate computers.
M0348 Management Information System (3/0) This course studies information systems planning and organization, information resources management, scheduling, cost, quality, security, humanity management and systems evaluation.
M0404 Management Mathematics (2/2) This course is an application of mathematical approaches in management.
M0405 Management (3/0) This course teaches theories and practices of management.
M0477 Quality management (3/0) This course discusses related theories of quality control in business.
M0517 Statistics (3/0) This course teaches methods and theories of statistics.
M0532 Marketing Strategies Study (0/3) This course offers theoretical and practical studies of marketing strategies.
M0746 Planning and Management (3/0) This course teaches essential theories and methodologies to carry out plans or projects.
M0747 Strategic Management (0/3) This course offers a discussion on organizations' long-term strategic directions.
M0853 Electronic Commerce (0/3) This course focuses on theory instruction and electronic commerce case studies.
M0969 Statistical Software Application (I) (0/3) This course teaches the SPSS software.
M0997 Introduction to Derivatives (0/2) This course introduces derivatives such as futures and options.
M1104 Supply Chain Management (0/3) The course provides a general view of supply chain management, concepts, strategies and models, with some key issues.
M1300 Regression Analysis (II) (3/0) The contents in this course include generalized linear model, logistic model and the error-in-variable linear regression model. Some models of time series are also discussed.
M1416 Logistics Management (3/0) This course teaches the application of management in marketing.
M1472 Marketing Planning and Case Study (3/0) The purpose of this course is twofold. First, students will be familiarized with the process in developing marketing plans. Second, the understanding and applying in theories for students will be enhanced through analyzing some real marketing case.
M1481 Statistical Quality Control (2/0) This course covers statistical inferences for parameters in manufacturing processes, control charts for variables and attributes and its recent developments, various process capability indices and statistical inferences for those indices.
M1507 Business Communication (2/0) Most people think that communication is a born skill. But it is learned through interaction between individuals. Communication is the foundation for human relations. We can express our opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings to other people through communication. Not only could other people understand more about us, we could also know ourselves better. This course builds upon communication theories. The focus is to train students to be better communicators and learn about human relations. Meanwhile, the contents of career planning, individual SWOT analysis, and the spanning of individual networks are included in this course in order for students to be prepared for the job market.
M1579 Introduction to SAS Software (0/3) This course teaches the SAS (Statistical Analysis System) software.
S0191 Regression Analysis (3/0) This course discusses the application of mathematical theories to statistical regression.
S0408 Design of Experiments (3/0) This course provides several practical models of the design of experiments.
S0600 Time Series (0/3) This course provides several models using time series for forecasting.
T0086 Technology Management (0/3) This course teaches the basic concepts and methodologies to manage resources or businesses related industrial technologies.
T1299 Computer Word Processing (1/0) This course teaches and requires students to type rapidly.
The Chinese Constitution and Spirit (2/0) This course is an introduction to the development of the Chinese Constitution.
Master's Program
B0066 Investment Decision Analysis (3/0) This course teaches investment analyses and strategies.
B0070 Investment Management (0/3) This course applies a conceptual framework and theoretical background for investment management and decision-making by evaluating various investment strategies.
B0136 Consumer Behavior (3/0) This course teaches how marketers identify and exploit various sources of influence on buying behavior. Students are expected to learn key terms, definitions, and concepts used in the field, and identify and discuss major ideas and processes that characterize the consumer behavior field.
B0175 Forecasting for Enterprise (0/3) This course introduces derivatives such as futures and options.
B0260 Organizational Behavior (3/0) This course discusses characteristics of organizations and their related subjects.
B0400 Marketing Research (0/3) This course analyzes factors and methods to deal with issues of marketing and its related issues.
B0463 Organizational Theory (0/3) The recent and important organizational theories and behavior will be explored in this course.
E1136 Research Methodology (3/0) This course aims to familiarize participants with key activities in a scientific research process.
E1590 Introduction to the Optimal Control Theory (3/0) This course deals with analytical methods for solving and planning problems in continuous time. The solution to a continuous-time dynamic problem is a continuous function, indicating the optimal path to be followed by variables through time.
M0003 Human Resources Management (0/3) This course emphasizes basic human resource functions of both personnel specialists and operating managers. Critical issues include selection, training, compensation, performance appraisal and discipline.
M0064 Production and Operations Management (0/3) This course discusses product design and R and D, production forecasting, cite selecting, research methodology assurance, work measurement, factory allocation, production plan and control, quality assurance, materials management, replacement problem, production cost analysis and an introduction to CIM.
M0066 Production & Operations Management (0/3) This course teaches essential theories and methodologies concerning management of operating and productions.
M0116 Systems Analysis (3/0) This course offers a general view of managerial decision making with methods and applications
M0118 Inventory Theory (0/3) This course discusses different theories of inventory and their analysis.
M0142 Marketing Management (3/0) This course expects students to know required activities for implementing, monitoring, and controlling marketing strategic programs. Discussions also include ethical issues in the development and implementation of strategic marketing programs.
M0153 Operations Research (3/0) This course studies basic methods and applications thereof .
M0162 Decision Support Systems (0/3) This course introduces several methodologies and theories of decision support systems in order to discuss and explain the development of this field. Instruction, discussion, and academic papers reading are the main course implementations.
M0188 Sampling Methods (0/3) This course analyzes different methods of sampling and its application.
M0271 Financial Management (3/0) This course includes an introduction to the financial environment, value and risk, capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital management.
M0294 Statistical Decision Theory (0/3) This course discusses advanced statistical decision theory.
M0348 Information Management (3/0) The course gives a contemporary overview of information technology and its applications. Some spreadsheet-based and web-based examples are investigated.
M0391 Management Theory (3/0) This course emphasizes classical human relations, human resources, behavioral and quantitative management methods. Contents include planning, organizing, leading and controlling, the employment cycle, and organization design and motivation.
M0394 Management Accounting (0/3) This course involves case studies and analyses of management accounting.
M0586 Special Topics in Management Sciences (0/3) This course discusses models and concepts of management science.
M0610 Seminar on Strategic Management (3/0) This course expects students to (1) understand and analyze the boundaries of a firm; (2) perform an analysis of industry profitability and identify major forces that contribute to profits, including internal rivalry, entry, substitute products, buyer power, and supplier power; (3) understand how to measure the competitive position of a firm; and (4) formulate strategies for increasing long-term profitability.
M0699 Statistical Data Analysis (3/0) This course discusses the application of statistical methods and data analysis.
M0719 Bayes Methods in Statistics (3/0) Basic Bayes framework is introduced in this course. Two main topics such as Bayes estimations of parameters and Bayes decision rules are studied. Topics related to Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) methods are also discussed.
M0720 Seminar on Marketing Strategies (0/3) This course analyzes factors and strategies of management that influence marketing.
M0747 Strategic Management (0/3) This course covers discussions on the development of organizational competitive advantages and their strategic implications.
M0779 Design of Sampling Surveys (0/3) This course is a study of sampling survey and case analysis.
M0800 Business Ethics (0/3) This course discusses various perspectives on corporate social responsibility and identifies stakeholder groups for an organization. Students are expected to learn ethical guidelines for managers and discuss actions managers can take to handle ethical situations and conflicts.
M0848 Managerial Economics (3/0) This course teaches basic theories related to managerial economics. It can develop students' abilities in understanding the economic surroundings of business and managerial knowledge related to economics.
M0849 Seminar on The Practice of Management (1/1) This course invites practitioners to share practical experiences with students.
M0866 Research Methodology (0/3) This course covers case analysis on organizations' successes and failures.
M0956 Financial Risk Management (2/0) This course is to understand principles of financial risk, management and measurements and management of the exposure. A range of financial instruments and strategies will be profoundly discussed.
M0997 Derivatives (0/3) This course introduces derivatives such as futures, options, forwards, and SWAPs, and explains important functions of hedge, speculation, and arbitrage provided by derivatives.
M1066 Theory and Practice of Management (3/0) This course examines historical and modern theories and practices of corporate management toward effective performance in the functional areas of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling.
M1103 Knowledge Management (3/0) This course focuses on exploring theories and applications of knowledge management.
M1104 Supply Chain Management (3/0) This course focuses on how to manage supply chains, including related concepts, strategies, and models. It covers a comprehensive breadth of supply chain topics, and addresses major challenges in this area.
M1205 Mathematical Methods for Management (3/0) This is an advanced course of the finite mathematics such as g-inverse,(semi) positive definite, etc., in matrix differential equation, or other topics.
M1269 Organizational Culture and Business Ethics (3/0) In this course, important issues and theories of organizational culture and business ethics will be discussed.
M1343 Multi-Criteria Decision Making (0/3) This course involves multiple criteria decision making with methods and applications. The contents include three parts: multi-attribute decision making, multi-objective decision making, and group decision making.
M1381 Quality Management: Theory and Methods (0/3) This course contains two parts. The first part concerns the concept of quality and quality management; and the other part will be on some topics of quantified quality control that mainly focuses on capability indices.
M1382 Regression Analysis and its Applications (3/0) Estimations of parameters in simple and multiple linear regression model will be studied in this course. Some related topics such as interval estimations and testings will be studied. Some real data set will be illustrated.
M1415 Database Management and Design (0/3) This course focuses on how to design and develop database with relational database architecture.
M1469 Investment and Financial Analysis (3/0) This course introduces investment theory and investment practice, and emphasizes the risks of financial commodities invested by financial institution and individual investors.
S0466 Applied Regression Analysis (0/3) This course analyzes applied regression and its application.
T0086 Technology Management (3/0) This course discusses the process of technological innovation, technological innovations and strategic planning, technology transfer, research and development management, technological entrepreneurship and new ventures, technological change and organizational structure, managing information technology, economic analysis and methodologies in the management of technology.
T8000 Thesis (4) This course is required for students who are in the process of writing a thesis.
Ph.D. Program
B0423 Seminar on International Business (3/0) This course discusses modern international business management in the global context by emphasizing on the economic, political, legal,technological and cultural environments and the dynamic aspects of marketing, production, research and development, human resources, and accounting, financing operations.
E1590 Optimization Theory (3/0) This course deals with practice and theories of optimization.
M0118 Inventory Theory (0/3) This course is an introduction to different theories of inventory and their analysis.
M0145 Special Topics in Marketing Management (0/3) This course emphasizes special topics on new marketing concepts and operational models in customer needs, value, loyalty, and relationship with corporate marketing management activities in product, price, promotion, channel of distribution, and internet strategies.
M0162 Decision Support Systems (3/0) This course is designed for Ph.D. students who are interested in modeling, system development, and artificial intelligence, which implement support systems not only on decision making but also on problem solving. In this regard, this course investigates some methodologies and theories on exploring future development on DSS.
M0273 Special Topics in Financial Management (0/3) This workshop course offers discussion section related to financial management.
M0302 Special Topics in Statistical Theory (3/0) This course discusses research subjects on statistical theory and application.
M0378 Managerial Decision Theory (0/3) This course studies managerial decision-making. The nature of decision-making, decision-makers, decision styles in organization and decision environment are also discussed.
B0463 Statistical Related Topics and Its Analytical Methods (II) (0/3) This course covers parametric and nonparametric models and its statistical inferences. Recent developments in some special topics are also included.
M0615 Special Topics in Systems Analysis (0/3) This course covers the PPBS, cost effectiveness analysis, performance criteria, cost analysis, uncertainty, decision theory and case studying.
M0698 Decision Science (0/3) This course covers discussions on the development of organizational competitive advantages and their strategic implications.
M0777 Multivariate Statistical Analysis (0/3) This course is a scientific study and application of the methods of statistical analysis.
M0845 Special Topics in Human Resource (3/0) This course discusses human capital in the financial statement, emphasizing the introduction of human capital, human assets, human resource and the Generally Accepted Accounting Principle. The concepts of signup costs, investments, and tangible assets are also discussed.
M0878 Seminar (2/2) This course offers discussion of individual topics.
M0970 Workshop in Investment Strategy (3/0) This course discusses topics of investment and their strategies, which influence investment.
M1001 Strategic Human Resource Management (3/0) This course is designed for Ph.D. students who are interested in modeling, system development, and artificial intelligence, which implement support systems not only on decision making but also on problem solving. In this regard, this course investigates some methodologies and theories on exploring future development on DSS.
M1211 Seminar on Applied Management Science (0/3) This course discusses research subjects on modeling, theory and application of management sciences.
M1271 Leadership and Motivation (0/3) The theories and applications of two of the most important topics in organizational behavior, i.e., motivation & leadership, will be investigated in this course.
M1299 Seminar on Organizational Behavior (3/0) Areas to be covered in this course include Chinese work value, work motivation, familism , guanxi, leadership, conflict management, culture in Chinese organization, and other relevant issues in Chinese organizational behavior.
M1413 Statistical Models and its Methods for Analysis (0/3) We introduce some fundamental statistical models and its statistical method for analysis in this course. We will focus on some special models and make a detailed study on it.
M1414 Statistical Related Topics and Its Analytical Methods (3/0) A brief history of modern mathematical statistics will be introduced in this course. Some statistical methodology will be discussed and special topics will be raised and studied.
M1572 Seminar on International Marketing Management (0/3) This seminar is designed to enhance the student's exposure to the 21st century international marketing activities in the World Trade Organization (WTO) context. Main topics include the nature and theories of international economic development and business management. Key emphases are environmental challenges including political, legal, cultural, and consumer behavior. New strategies of the world-wide competition are also the focus of discussions, including information research, foreign market entries, product strategies, channel strategies, physical distribution strategies, promotion strategies, Internet application strategies, as well as general pricing and transfer of pricing practices. Finally, currencies and foreign exchange and new financial derivatives in the international market are also deeply explored.
M1573 Seminar on Strategic Management (0/3) This course presents an overview and introduction into the strategic management literature with a focus on both the content and process and extant research. Major topics include the development of relevant schools of thoughts, theoretical paradigms, methods, "mainstream" themes, current issues, and future directions.
M1582 Statistical Models and Various Methods for Analysis (II) (0/3) This course covers Bayes and non-Bayes models for various statistical problems and empirical Bayes approaches to some special topics.
T0102 Seminar (2/2) This course offers discussion of individual topics.
T8000 Thesis (4) This course is required for students who are in the process of writing a dissertation.
