Table of Contents
Notes on the Contributors ix
About the Editors xxi
Part I Introduction 1
1 Crucial Trends and Issues in Strategic Decision Making 3 Paul C. Nutt And David C. Wilson
2 Research on Strategic Decisions: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead 31 Vassilis Papadakis, Ioannis Thanos, and Patrick Barwise
Part II Key Theoretical Perspectives 71
3 Decision Making: It’s Not What You Think 73 Henry Mintzberg And Frances Westley
4 Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking 83 Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, And David Obstfeld
5 The Political Aspects of Strategic Decision Making 105 John Child, Said Elbanna, and Suzana Rodrigues
6 Organizational Identity and Strategic Decision Making 139 Aimee L. Hamilton And Dennis A. Gioia
Part III Conceptualizing Strategic Decision Making 153
7 Building a Decision-making Action Theory 155 Paul C. Nutt
8 A Decision Process Model to Support Timely Organizational Innovation 197 Andre L. Delbecq, Terri L. Griffith, Tammy L. Madsen, And Jennifer L. Woolley
9 Decision Making in Groups: Theory and Practice 231 Colin Eden And Fran Ackermann
Part IV Factors and Considerations That Impinge On Decision Making 273
10 Decision Making in Professional Service Firms 275 Tim Morris, Royston Greenwood, and Samantha Fairclough
11 Risk Taking and Strategic Decision Making 307 Philip Bromiley And Devaki Rau
12 Decision Errors of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Kind 327 Kim Boal And Mark Meckler
13 Decision Making in Public Organizations 349 Hal G. Rainey, John C. Ronquillo, And Claudia N. Avellaneda
14 Strategic Decision Making and Knowledge: A Heideggerian Approach 379 Haridimos Tsoukas
15 Challenges of Using IT to Support Multidisciplinary Team Decision Making 403 Michael Barrett and Eivor Oborn
Part V Recent Empirical Findings That Support Theories And Views 431
16 The Bradford Studies: Decision Making and Implementation Processes and Performance 433 Susan Miller
17 Comparing the Merits of Decision-making Processes 449 Paul C. Nutt
18 Of Baseball, Medical Decision Making, and Innumeracy 501 Lori Ferranti, Steven Cheng, and David Dilts
19 The Dimensions of Decisions: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation 517 Lori S. Franz and Michael W. Kramer
Part VI Methodology for The Study Of Decision Making 541
20 Empirical Methods for Research on Organizational Decision-Making Processes 543 Marshall Scott Poole and Andrew H. Van De Ven
21 On the Study of Process: Merging Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches 581 Paul C. Nutt
22 The Bradford Studies: Issues Raised by These and Other Studies for the Understanding of Decision Making 619 David C. Wilson
Part VII Directions and Perspectives 643
23 Discussion and Implications: Toward Creating a Unified Theory of Decision Making 645 Paul C. Nutt and David C. Wilson
Index 679