Organizational Decision Making

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction Zur Shapira; 2. Understanding how decisions happen in organizations James March; Part II. Information Processing and Attention Allocation: 3. Trying to help S & L's: how organizations with good intentions jointly enacted disaster William H. Starbuck and P. Nayaran Pant; 4. Organizational choice under ambiguity: decision making in the chemical industry following Bhopal Howard Kunreuther and Jacqueline Meszaros; 5. Strategic agenda building in organizations Jane Dutton; Part III. Preference Processing: 6. The social ideologies of power in organizational decisions Gerald Robert Salancik and Margaret Cooper Brindle; 7. Managerial incentives in organizations: economic, political and symbolic perspectives Edward J. Zajac and James D. Westphal; 8. Coordination in organizations: a game-theoretic perspective Colin Camerer and Marc Knez; Part IV. Decision Processes: 9. The escalation of commitment: an update and appraisal Barry M. Staw; 10. The possibility of distributed decision making Baruch Fischhoff and Stephen Johnson; 11. Aligning the residuals: risk, return, responsibility and authority Raghu Garud and Zur Shapira; 12. Organizational decision making as rule following Xueguang Zhou; Part V. Alternative Approaches: 13. Naturalistic decision making and the new organizational context Terry Connolly and Ken Koput; 14. Telling decisions: the role of narrative in organizational decision making Ellen O'Connor; 15. Bounded rationality, indeterminacy, and the managerial theory of the firm Roy Radner; 16. The scarecrow's search: a cognitive psychologist's perspective on organizational decision making John W. Payne.

"[A] terrific book... It contains the seeds for numerous dissertations- questions begging to be examined more closely. Whether you simply want to understand current thought about organizational decision making or are looking for promising research opportunities, this book is the place to look." American Journal of Psychology