Graeme Salaman (ed.)

Decision Making for Business

A Reader
Herausgeber: Salaman, Graeme

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New Course ReaderDecision-making for Business presents a collection of the crucial contributions to our understanding of decision making. They are assembled to form a coherent and sustained analysis of the key factors that influence decision making. The selected articles are stimulating, provocative and analytical, resulting in a critical and comprehensive analysis of decision making.The book includeds theoretical insights into decision making with empirical examples and explanations of the decision making processes. It is intended for students of strategy and decision making, organizational analysis, at undergraduate and graduate levels.This Course Reader is in a series of three (alongside Strategy for Business and Policy Issues for Business) which constitutes the main teaching texts of The Open University undergraduate course Business Behaviour in a Changing World (B300).To view selected pages of this Reader visit www.sagepub.co.uk/resources/strategy.htm

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780761974116
• ISBN-10: 0761974113
• Artikelnr.: 21843414

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION ONE: THE ANATOMY OF DECISION-MAKING
A Perfect Failure - Irving L Janis
The Bay of Pigs
Anatomy of a Fatal Business Strategy - Erhard K Valentin
A Summary of Basic Concepts in the Behavioural Theory of the Firm - Richard
M Cyert and James G March
Decision-Making in Organizations - Susan Miller, David Hickson and David
Wilson
SECTION TWO: UNDERSTANDING DECISION MAKING: UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS
Decision-Making as a Political Process - Andrew M Pettigrew
The Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality - Nils Brunsson
Ideologies and Organizational Actions
The Hospital and Its Negotiated Order - A Strauss, L Scatzman, D Ehrlich, R
Bucher and M Sabsin
The Practicalities of Rule Use - Don Zimmerman
SECTION THREE: THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONS
Strategic Management in an Enacted World - Linda Smircich and Charles
Stubbart
The Role of Managerial Learning and Interpretation in Strategic Persistence
and Re-Orientation - Theresa K Lant, Frances J Milliken and Bipin Batra
An Empirical Exploration
The Cognitive Perspective on Strategic Decision-Making - Charles R Schwenk
The Impact of Organizational Culture on Approaches to Organizational
Problem-Solving - Paul Bate
SECTION FOUR: THE SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKING
Organizational Forms - Nils Brunsson and Johan P Olsen
Can We Choose Them?
The Cult(ure) of the Customer - Paul Du Gay and Graeme Salaman
Managerialism and Social Welfare - Janet Newman
From Decision to Action in Organizations - Herv[ac]e Laroche
Decision-Making as a Social Representation