​Books

Authored Books
​Rouse, W.B. (2024). Essential Business Challenges: Understanding Complexity, Addressing Change & Making Better Decisions. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.
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Rouse, W.B. (2024). Innovation Ecosystems: How Driving Forces & Success Factors Affect Opportunities for Business Innovation. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.

Rouse, W.B. (2024). The Power of Games: Business Impacts & Opportunities for Innovation. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.

Rouse, W.B. (2024). Design of a Human-Centered Society: Creatively Balancing Business Innovation and Societal Exploitation. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.

Rouse, W.B. (2023). Beyond Quick Fixes: Addressing the Complexity & Uncertainties of Contemporary Society. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Rouse, W.B. (2023). Bigger Pictures for Innovation: Creating Solutions, Managing Enterprises & Influencing Policies. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.
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Rouse, W.B. (2022). Transforming Public-Private Ecosystems: Understanding and Enabling Innovation in Complex Systems. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Rouse, W.B. (2021). Failure management: Malfunctions of Technologies, Organizations, and Society. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Rouse, W.B. (2019). Computing Possible Futures: Model Based Explorations of “What if?” Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Rouse, W.B. (2016). Universities as complex enterprises: How academia works, why it works these ways, and where the university enterprise is headed. New York: Wiley.

Rouse, W.B. (2015). Modeling and visualization of complex systems and enterprises: Exploration of physical, human, economic, and social phenomena. New York: Wiley.

Rouse, W.B., & Serban, N. (2014). Understanding and managing the complexity of healthcare. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Rouse, W.B. (2014). A century of innovation: From wooden sailing ships to electric railways, computers, space travel and Internet. Raleigh, NC: Lulu Press.

Sage, A.P., & Rouse, W.B. (2011). Economic system analysis and assessment. New York: Wiley.

Rouse, W.B. (2007). People and organizations: Explorations of human-centered design. New York: Wiley.

Rouse, W.B. (2001). Essential challenges of strategic management. New York: Wiley. (Chinese Edition, 2007.)

Rouse, W.B. (1998). Don’t jump to solutions: Thirteen delusions that undermine strategic thinking. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. (Portuguese Edition, 1999; Arabic Edition, 2001.)

Rouse, W.B. (1996)  Start where you are: Matching your strategy to your marketplace.  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Rouse, W.B. (1994). Best laid plans. New York: Prentice-Hall.

Rouse, W.B. (1993). Catalysts for change: Concepts and principles for enabling innovation.  New York:  Wiley.

Rouse, W.B. (1992). Strategies for innovation: Creating successful products, systems, and organizations.  New York:  Wiley.

Rouse, W.B. (1991).  Design for success: A human-centered approach to designing successful products and systems.  New York:  Wiley.

Rouse, W.B., & Rouse, S.H. (1980). Management of library networks:  Policy analysis, implementation, and control.  New York:  Wiley.

Rouse, W.B. (1980). Systems engineering models of human-machine interaction.  New York:  Elsevier.

Edited Books

Pate-Cornell, E., Rouse, W.B., & Vest, C.M. (Eds.).(2016). Perspectives on complex global challenges: Education, energy, healthcare, security, and resilience. New York: Wiley.

Rouse, W.B., Boff, K.R., & Sanderson, P. (Eds.).(2012). Complex socio-technical systems: Understanding and influencing causality of change. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Rouse, W.B. (Ed.).(2010). The economics of human systems integration: Valuation of investments in people’s training and education, safety and health, and work productivity. New York: John Wiley.

Rouse, W.B., & Cortese, D.A. (Eds.).(2010). Engineering the system of healthcare delivery. Amsterdam: IOS Press.  (Volume 3 in the Tennenbaum Institute Series on Enterprise Systems and Vol. 153 in the IOS Series on Health Technology and Informatics.)

Sage, A.P., & Rouse, W.B. (Eds.).(2009). Handbook of systems engineering and management. 2nd Edition,New York: John Wiley.

Rouse, W.B., & Sage, A.P. (Eds.).(2007). Work, workflow, and information systems. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Rouse, W.B. (Ed.). (2006). Enterprise transformation: Understanding and enabling fundamental change. New York: Wiley.

Rouse, W.B., & Boff, K.R. (Eds.). (2005). Organizational simulation: From modeling and simulation to games and entertainment. New York: Wiley.

Sage, A.P., & Rouse, W.B. (Eds.).(1999). Handbook of systems engineering and management. 1st Edition, New York: John Wiley.

Rouse, W.B. (Ed.). (1984-1996).  Human/technology interaction in complex systems (Vols. 1-8).  Greenwich, CT:  JAI Press.

Moray, N.P., Ferrell, W.R., & Rouse, W.B. (Eds.). (1990).  Robotics, control, and society.  London:  Taylor & Francis.

Rouse, W.B., & Boff, K.R., (Eds.). (1987).  System design:  Behavioral perspectives on designers, tools, and organizations.  New York:  Elsevier.

Rasmussen, J., & Rouse, W.B. (Eds.). (1981).  Human detection and diagnosis of system failures.  New York:  Plenum Press.