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Decision Making for Business Graeme Salaman

Decision Making for Business By Graeme Salaman

Decision Making for Business by Graeme Salaman


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Decision Making for Business

Decision Making for Business Summary

Decision Making for Business: A Reader by Graeme Salaman

In this book, Graeme Salaman gathers the best contributions to our understanding of decision-making and assembles them to form a coherent and sustained analysis of the key factors that influence decision making. The selected articles are stimulating, provocative and analytical, resulting in a critical and comprehensive analysis of decision making.

Decision-making for Business presents essential readings concerned with the importance of decisions, the processes of decision-making, and the implications of `flawed' decision-making. The book reveals ways in which patterns of decision-making can be described and explained, and how these patterns require the use of a range of theories, which are included in the selection. This work is designed as a resource for anyone seeking an understanding of the changing nature of organizations and the world of business.

About Graeme Salaman

Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organization Studies at the Open University Business School

Table of Contents

SECTION ONE: THE ANATOMY OF DECISION-MAKING A Perfect Failure - Irving L Janis The Bay of Pigs Anatomy of a Fatal Business Strategy - Erhard K Valentin A Summary of Basic Concepts in the Behavioural Theory of the Firm - Richard M Cyert and James G March Decision-Making in Organizations - Susan Miller, David Hickson and David Wilson SECTION TWO: UNDERSTANDING DECISION MAKING: UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS Decision-Making as a Political Process - Andrew M Pettigrew The Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality - Nils Brunsson Ideologies and Organizational Actions The Hospital and Its Negotiated Order - A Strauss, L Scatzman, D Ehrlich, R Bucher and M Sabsin The Practicalities of Rule Use - Don Zimmerman SECTION THREE: THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONS Strategic Management in an Enacted World - Linda Smircich and Charles Stubbart The Role of Managerial Learning and Interpretation in Strategic Persistence and Re-Orientation - Theresa K Lant, Frances J Milliken and Bipin Batra An Empirical Exploration The Cognitive Perspective on Strategic Decision-Making - Charles R Schwenk The Impact of Organizational Culture on Approaches to Organizational Problem-Solving - Paul Bate SECTION FOUR: THE SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKING Organizational Forms - Nils Brunsson and Johan P Olsen Can We Choose Them? The Cult(ure) of the Customer - Paul Du Gay and Graeme Salaman Managerialism and Social Welfare - Janet Newman From Decision to Action in Organizations - Herv[ac]e Laroche Decision-Making as a Social Representation

Additional information

GOR001030298
9780761974116
0761974113
Decision Making for Business: A Reader by Graeme Salaman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
2001-08-15
278
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