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Book SynopsisHandbook of Decision Making presents a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches to the understanding of strategic decisions. Written by leading international experts from North America, Canada and Europe, this guidebook is a tour de force of understanding decisionmaking from a variety of perspectives and contexts.
Trade Reviewrecommended to those interested in the field of strategic decision making. It offers a diverse set of topics and provides many ideas and applications Interfaces
Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors ix
About the Editors xxi
Part I Introduction 1
1 Crucial Trends and Issues in Strategic Decision Making 3
Paul C. Nutt And David C. Wilson
2 Research on Strategic Decisions: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead 31
Vassilis Papadakis, Ioannis Thanos, and Patrick Barwise
Part II Key Theoretical Perspectives 71
3 Decision Making: It’s Not What You Think 73
Henry Mintzberg And Frances Westley
4 Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking 83
Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, And David Obstfeld
5 The Political Aspects of Strategic Decision Making 105
John Child, Said Elbanna, and Suzana Rodrigues
6 Organizational Identity and Strategic Decision Making 139
Aimee L. Hamilton And Dennis A. Gioia
Part III Conceptualizing Strategic Decision Making 153
7 Building a Decision-making Action Theory 155
Paul C. Nutt
8 A Decision Process Model to Support Timely Organizational Innovation 197
Andre L. Delbecq, Terri L. Griffith, Tammy L. Madsen, And Jennifer L. Woolley
9 Decision Making in Groups: Theory and Practice 231
Colin Eden And Fran Ackermann
Part IV Factors and Considerations That Impinge On Decision Making 273
10 Decision Making in Professional Service Firms 275
Tim Morris, Royston Greenwood, and Samantha Fairclough
11 Risk Taking and Strategic Decision Making 307
Philip Bromiley And Devaki Rau
12 Decision Errors of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Kind 327
Kim Boal And Mark Meckler
13 Decision Making in Public Organizations 349
Hal G. Rainey, John C. Ronquillo, And Claudia N. Avellaneda
14 Strategic Decision Making and Knowledge: A Heideggerian Approach 379
Haridimos Tsoukas
15 Challenges of Using IT to Support Multidisciplinary Team Decision Making 403
Michael Barrett and Eivor Oborn
Part V Recent Empirical Findings That Support Theories And Views 431
16 The Bradford Studies: Decision Making and Implementation Processes and Performance 433
Susan Miller
17 Comparing the Merits of Decision-making Processes 449
Paul C. Nutt
18 Of Baseball, Medical Decision Making, and Innumeracy 501
Lori Ferranti, Steven Cheng, and David Dilts
19 The Dimensions of Decisions: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation 517
Lori S. Franz and Michael W. Kramer
Part VI Methodology for The Study Of Decision Making 541
20 Empirical Methods for Research on Organizational Decision-Making Processes 543
Marshall Scott Poole and Andrew H. Van De Ven
21 On the Study of Process: Merging Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches 581
Paul C. Nutt
22 The Bradford Studies: Issues Raised by These and Other Studies for the Understanding of Decision Making 619
David C. Wilson
Part VII Directions and Perspectives 643
23 Discussion and Implications: Toward Creating a Unified Theory of Decision Making 645
Paul C. Nutt and David C. Wilson
Index 679
