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Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. 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

Primer on Decision Making

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      Publisher: Simon & Schuster
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/23/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781439157336, 978-1439157336
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      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Preface

      1. 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

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