Organizational Decision Making
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- Editor: Zur Shapira, New York University
- Date Published: October 2010
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Decision making in organizations is often pictured as a coherent and rational process in which alternative interests and perspectives are considered in an orderly manner until the best choice is selected. Yet, as most experienced members of organizations will attest, real decision processes seldom fit such a description. This book brings together researchers who focus on cognitive aspects of decision processes, along with those who study organizational aspects such as conflict, incentives, power and ambiguity. These multiple perspectives are intended to further our understanding of organizational decision making. Contributors often cite specific cases, and all foundations of organizational decision making are covered in considerable detail.
Read more- The main feature is the integration (never been done before) of psychological aspects of decision making and organizational characteristics that affect decision making in organizations
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"[A] terrific book... It contains the seeds for numerous dissertations- questions begging to be examined more closely. Whether you simply want to understand current thought about organizational decision making or are looking for promising research opportunities, this book is the place to look." American Journal of Psychology
See more reviews"Organizational Decision Making is a superb collection, perhaps the best [of its kind] to date...highly relevant to both business and law." Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago
"An excellent reflection of the field, containing many novel and compelling insights. I encourage all scholars of decision making to read the book and to engage in the debate about the nature and future of the field." Administative Science Quarterly
"For any scholars who are interested in the process of decision making within organizations, Organizational Decision Making is required reading, for it covers the breadth of the field extremely well. " Contemporary Psychology
"Succeeds in offering the reader a varied perspective of organizational decision making....Should be well received in the fields of business and the behavioral sciences....Not only explains what research on organizational decision making can do now but also what it offers for the future." Applied Cognitive Psychology
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- Date Published: October 2010
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511784064
- contains: 30 b/w illus. 5 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. Introduction Zur Shapira
2. Understanding how decisions happen in organizations James March
Part II. Information Processing and Attention Allocation:
3. Trying to help S & L's: how organizations with good intentions jointly enacted disaster William H. Starbuck and P. Nayaran Pant
4. Organizational choice under ambiguity: decision making in the chemical industry following Bhopal Howard Kunreuther and Jacqueline Meszaros
5. Strategic agenda building in organizations Jane Dutton
Part III. Preference Processing:
6. The social ideologies of power in organizational decisions Gerald Robert Salancik and Margaret Cooper Brindle
7. Managerial incentives in organizations: economic, political and symbolic perspectives Edward J. Zajac and James D. Westphal
8. Coordination in organizations: a game-theoretic perspective Colin Camerer and Marc Knez
Part IV. Decision Processes:
9. The escalation of commitment: an update and appraisal Barry M. Staw
10. The possibility of distributed decision making Baruch Fischhoff and Stephen Johnson
11. Aligning the residuals: risk, return, responsibility and authority Raghu Garud and Zur Shapira
12. Organizational decision making as rule following Xueguang Zhou
Part V. Alternative Approaches:
13. Naturalistic decision making and the new organizational context Terry Connolly and Ken Koput
14. Telling decisions: the role of narrative in organizational decision making Ellen O'Connor
15. Bounded rationality, indeterminacy, and the managerial theory of the firm Roy Radner
16. The scarecrow's search: a cognitive psychologist's perspective on organizational decision making John W. Payne.
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