Making Tough Decisions Well and Badly

Edited by Arch G. Woodside, Curtin School of Business, School of Marketing, Curtin University, South Perth, Australia

• Case-Based Causal Mapping of Bad and Good Decisions - Arch G. WoodsideBest and Worst Practices in Management Performance Audits: Constructing and Testing an Algorithmic Model - Arch G. Woodside, Xin Xia, John C. Crotts and Jeremy C. ClementSystem Dynamics Research of Bad and Good Decision Processes and Outcomes - Arch G. WoodsideDecisions About Decisions: Leveraging the Internet to Distribute Influence in Organisational Buying Centres - Roger Marshall, Leonard Ling Ping Chih, Peh Yam Khim and Goh Whee ChengMaking Decisions Well and Badly: How Stakeholders’ Discussions Influence Individual Executives’ Decision Confidence and Competence - Rouxelle De Villiers, Robin Hankin and Arch G. Woodside

Woodside presents readers with a collection of scholarly articles investigating the decision making process, including framing, deciding, implementing a decision, and assessing its impact. The five contributions that make up the main body of his text are devoted to case-based causal mapping of bad and good decisions, best and worst practices in management performance audits, system dynamics research of bad and good decision processes and outcomes, and several other related subjects. The editor is a faculty member of Curtin University in Australia.