Organizational decision making / edited by Zur Shapira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shapira, Zur.

Series:

Camdbridge series on judgment and decision making.

Camdbridge series on judgment and decision making

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Physical Description:

x, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Summary:

Explores decision making in organizations, highlighting the roles of incentive, conflict, power and politics.

Contents:

2 Understanding how decisions happen in organizations / James G. March 9

Part II Information processing and attention allocation

3 Trying to help S&Ls: How organizations with good intentions jointly enacted disaster / William H. Starbuck, P. Narayan Pant 35

4 Organizational choice under ambiguity: Decision making in the chemical industry following Bhopal / Howard Kunreuther, Jacqueline Meszaros 61

5 Strategic agenda building in organizations / Jane E. Dutton 81

Part III Preference processing

6 The social ideologies of power in organizational decisions / Gerald Robert Salancik, Margaret Cooper Brindle 111

7 Managerial incentives in organizations: Economic, political, and symbolic perspectives / Edward J. Zajac, James D. Westphal 133

8 Coordination in organizations: A game-theoretic perspective / Colin Camerer, Marc Knez 158

Part IV Decision processes

9 The escalation of commitment: An update and appraisal / Barry M. Staw 191

10 The possibility of distributed decision making / Baruch Fischhoff, Stephen Johnson 216

11 Aligning the residuals: Risk, return, responsibility, and authority / Raghu Garud, Zur Shapira 238

12 Organizational decision making as rule following / Xueguang Zhou 257

Part V Alternative approaches

13 Naturalistic decision making and the new organizational context / Terry Connolly, Ken Koput 285

14 Telling decisions: The role of narrative in organizational decision making / Ellen S. O'Connor 304

15 Bounded rationality, indeterminacy, and the managerial theory of the firm / Roy Radner 324

16 The scarecrow's search: A cognitive psychologist's perspective on organizational decision making / John W. Payne 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0521481074

OCLC:

34410805