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Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments
Preface1. Limited Rationality
The Idea of Rational Choice
Limited (or Bounded) Rationality
Theories of Attention and Search
Risk and Risk Taking
2. Rule Following
Decision Making as Rule Following
Rules, Identities, and Action
Rule Development and Change
Appropriate Rules or Consequential Choice?
3. Multiple Actors: Teams and Partners
Interpersonal Consistency and Teams
Interpersonal Inconsistencies
Social Bases of Inconsistencies
Uneasy Partners
4. Multiple Actors: Conflict and Politics
Decisions and Power
Decisions and Coalitions
Participation and Decision Instabilities
Single Actors and Multiple Actors
5. Ambiguity and Interpretation
Order and Ambiguity in Decision Making
Ambiguous Bases of Decision Making
Loose Coupling in Organizations
Garbage Can Decision Process
Decision Making and the Construction of Meaning
Ambiguity and Understanding
6. Decision Engineering
Defining Decision Intelligence
Improving Adaptiveness
Using Knowledge
Creating Meaning
Notes
Additional Reading
Index
About the Author
