Organizational decision making / edited by Zur Shapira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shapira, Zur, editor.

Series:

Cambridge series on judgment and decision making.

Cambridge series on judgment and decision making

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 397 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Decision making in organizations is often pictured as a coherent and rational process in which alternative interests and perspectives are considered in an orderly manner until the optimal alternative is selected. Yet, as many members of organizations have discovered from their own experience, real decision processes in organizations only seldom fit such a description. This book brings together researchers who focus on cognitive aspects of decision processes, on the one hand, and those who study organizational aspects such as conflict, incentives, power, and ambiguity, on the other. It draws from the tradition of Herbert Simon, who studied organizational decision making's pervasive use of bounded rationality and heuristics of reasoning. These multiple perspectives may further our understanding of organizational decision making. Organizational Decision Making is particularly well suited for students and faculties of business, psychology, and public administration.

Contents:

pt. 1. Introduction

pt. 2. Information processing and attention allocation

pt. 3. Preference processing

pt. 4. Decision processes

pt. 5. Alternative approaches.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-12666-5

1-282-84852-6

9786612848520

0-511-78850-9

0-511-78778-2

0-511-78923-8

0-511-78664-6

0-511-78549-6

0-511-58416-4

OCLC:

670411023