| Description |
xxviii, 620 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
1. Organizational Decision Making: Mapping Terrains on Different Planets / Gerard P. Hodgkinson and William H. Starbuck -- Pt. I. The Context and Content of Decision Making -- 2. Boom and Bust Behavior: On the Persistence of Strategic Decision Biases / Michael Shayne Gary, Giovanni Dosi and Dan Lovallo -- 3. Information Overload Revisited / Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Karl E. Weick -- 4. Decision Making with Inaccurate, Unreliable Data / John M. Mezias and William H. Starbuck -- 5. Borgs in the Org? Organizational Decision Making and Technology / Terri L. Griffith, Gregory B. Northcraft and Mark A. Fuller -- 6. Making the Decision to Monitor in the Workplace: Cybernetic Models and the Illusion of Control / David Zweig, Jane Webster and Kristyn A. Scott -- 7. Culture and Decision Making / Jacques Rojot -- Pt. II. Decision Making During Crises and Hazardous Situations -- 8. Facing the Threat of Disaster: Decision Making When the Stakes are High / Michal Tamuz and Eleanor T. Lewis -- 9. The Fit Between Crisis Types and Management Attributes as a Determinant of Crisis Consequences / Teri Jane Ursacki-Bryant, Carolyne Smart and Ilan Verlinsky -- 10. Employing Adaptive Structuring as a Cognitive Decision Aid in High Reliability Organizations / Karlene H. Roberts, Kuo Frank Yu, Vinit Desai and Peter M. Madsen -- 11. Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making in Organizations: Mechanisms of Effective Decision Making / Michael A. Rosen, Eduardo Salas, Rebecca Lyons and Stephen M. Fiore -- Pt. III. Decision Making Processes -- 12. Cognitively Skilled Organizational Decision Making: Making Sense of Deciding / Julia Balogun, Annie Pye and Gerard P. Hodgkinson -- 13. Linking Rationality, Politics, and Routines in Organizational Decision Making / Isabelle Royer and Ann Langley -- 14. Superstitious Behavior as a Byproduct of Intelligent Adaptation / Jerker Denrell -- 15. On the Implications of Behavioral Decision Theory for Managerial Decision Making: Contributions and Challenges / Zur Shapira -- 16. Intuition in Organizational Decision Making / Eugene Sadler-Smith and Paul R. Sparrow -- 17. Affect and Information Processing / Kevin Daniels -- 18. Individual Differences and Decision Making / Emma Soane and Nigel Nicholson -- 19. Group Composition and Decision Making / Elizabeth George and Prithviraj Chattopadhyay -- Pt. IV. Consequences Produced by Decisions -- 20. Making Sense of Real Options Reasoning: An Engine of Choice that Backfires? / Michael L. Barnett and Roger L. M. Dunbar -- 21. The Social Construction of Rationality in Organizational Decision Making / Laure Cabantous, Jean-Pascal Gond and Michael Johnson-Cramer -- 22. When "Decision Outcomes" are not the Outcomes of Decisions / Benedicte Vidaillet -- 23. What Lies Behind Organizational Facades and How Organizational Facades Lie: An Untold Story of Organizational Decision Making / Eric Abrahamson and Philippe Baumard -- Pt. V. Toward More Effective Decision Making -- 24. Teaching Decision Making / Gerald F. Smith -- 25. Facilitating Serious Play / Matt Statler and David Oliver -- 26. Do Activities of Consultants and Management Scientists Affect Decision Making by Managers? / Alfred Kieser and Benjamin Wellstein -- 27. Risk Communication in Organizations / A. John Maule -- 28. Structuring the Decision Process: An Evaluation of Methods / George Wright and Paul Goodwin -- 29. Strategy Workshops and "Away Days" as Ritual / Nicole Bourque and Gerry Johnson -- 30. Troubling Futures: Scenarios and Scenario Planning for Organizational Decision Making / Mark P. Healey and Gerard P. Hodgkinson |
| Summary |
"The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making comprehensively surveys theory and research on organizational decision making. Emphasizing psychological perspectives, while encompassing the insights of economics, political science, and sociology, it provides coverage at the individual, group, organizational, and inter-organizational levels of analysis. In-depth case studies illustrate the practical implications of the work surveyed." "Each chapter is authored by one or more leading scholars, thus ensuring that this Handbook is an authoritative reference work for academics, researchers, advanced students, and reflective practitioners concerned with decision making in the areas of Management, Psychology, and HRM."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Decision making -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Organizational behavior -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Hodgkinson, Gerard P., 1961-
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Starbuck, William H., 1934-
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| LC no. |
2007041294 |
| ISBN |
9780199290468 |
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