The consequences of decision-making / Nils Brunsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brunsson, Nils, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Decision-making is one of the defining characteristics of modern organizations. This book collects together the most important writing on decision-making by Brunsson, one of the leading European organizational theorists. The author provides an introduction to this work, brought together for the first time in this volume. - ;Nils Brunsson is one of the leading European organization theorists who has written and researched decision-making in organizations. He has often questioned the rationality of decision-making, and argued that it is as important to understand other consequences of decision-m

Contents:

Decision as institution

Deciding for responsibility and legitimation : alternative interpretations of organizational decision-making

The irrationality of action and action rationality : decisions, ideologies, and organizational actions

Implentating reforms

Responsibility as an impediment to influence : the case of budgeting

Industrial policy as implementation or legitimation

Organized hypocrisy

Ideas and actions : justification and hypocrisy as alternatives to control.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-186020-4

1-281-14890-3

9786611148904

0-19-152564-2

1-4294-9275-9

OCLC:

476245279