Decision making for business
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Graeme Salaman.
Contributors: Salaman, Graeme.
Publisher: SAGE; Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Decision making.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I; title: I; title: CHAPTER 1; title: A Perfect Failure: The Bay of Pigs; title: Irving L. Janis; title: CHAPTER 2; title: Anatomy of a Fatal Business Strategy; title: Erhard K. Valentin; title: CHAPTER 3; title: A Summary of Basic Concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm; title: Richard M. Cyert andJames G. March; title: CHAPTER 4; title: Decision-making in Organizations; title: Susan J. Miller, DavidJ. Hickson and David C. Wilson; title: SECTION 2 Understanding Decision-making:; title: Understanding Organizations; title: CHAPTER 5; title: Decision-making as a Political Process; title: Andrew M. Pettigrew; title: CHAPTER 6; title: The Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality: Decisions,; title: Ideologies and Organizational Actions; title: Nils Brunsson; title: CHAPTER 7; title: The Hospital and its Negotiated Order; title: A. Strauss, L. Schatzman, D. Ehrlich, R. Bucher and M. Sabshin; title: CHAPTER 8; title: The Practicalities of Rule Use; title: Don Zimmerman; title: SECTION 3 Thinking in Organizations; title: CHAPTER 9; title: Strategic Management in an Enacted World; title: Linda Smircich and Charles Stubbart; title: CHAPTER 10; title: The Role of Managerial Learning and Interpretation in Strategic; title: Persistence and Reorientation: An Empirical Exploration; title: Theresa K. Lant, FrancesJ. Milliken, and Bipin Batra; title: CHAPTER 11; title: The Cognitive Perspective on Strategic Decision-making; title: Charles R. Schwenk; title: CHAPTER 12; title: The Impact of Organizational Culture on Approaches to; title: Organizational Problem-solving; title: Paul Bate; title: SECTION 4 The Societal Context of Organizational; title: Decision-making; title: CHAPTER 1 3; title: Organizational Forms: Can we Choose them?; title: Nils Brunsson andJohan P Olsen; title: CHAPTER 14; title: The Cult(ure) of the Customer; title: Paul du Gay and Graeme Salaman; title: CHAPTER 1 5; title: Managerialism and Social Welfare; title: Janet Newman; title: CHAPTER 16; title: From Decision to Action in Organizations: Decision-making as a; title: Social Representation; title: Herve Laroche; title: Index.