A primer on decision making : how decisions happen /
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| Author / Creator: | March, James G. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994. |
| Description: | ix, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4265798 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Limited Rationality
- The Idea of Rational Choice
- Limited (or Bounded) Rationality
- Theories of Attention and Search
- Risk and Risk Taking
- 2. Rule Following
- Decision Making as Rule Following
- Rules, Identities, and ActionRule Development and Change
- Appropriate Rules or Consequential Choice?
- 3. Multiple Actors: Teams and Partners
- Interpersonal Consistency and Teams
- Interpersonal Inconsistencies
- Social Bases of Inconsistencies
- Uneasy Partners
- 4. Multiple Actors: Conflict and Politics
- Decisions and Power
- Decisions and Coalitions
- Participation and Decision Instabilities
- Single Actors and Multiple Actors
- 5. Ambiguity and Interpretation
- Order and Ambiguity in Decision Making
- Ambiguous Bases of Decision Making
- Loose Coupling in Organizations
- Garbage Can Decision Process
- Decision Making and the Construction of Meaning
- Ambiguity and Understanding
- 6. Decision Engineering
- Defining Decision Intelligence
- Improving Adaptiveness
- Using Knowledge
- Creating Meaning
- Notes
- Additional Reading
- Index
- About the Author
