Handbook of Decision Making

Paul C. Nutt is Professor Emeritus of Management Sciences in Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University and Professor of Management at University of Strathclyde’s College of Business. His research interests include organizational decision-making, strategic management, and radical change. Current research topics include averting decision debacles, decision style, formulation and implementation, ethics, learning, organizational transformation and de-development, vision, and leadership. He has written over 150 articles and seven books on these topics. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching from the Decision Sciences Institute, the Academy of Management, Institute for Operation Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and others. He is a Fellow in the Decision Sciences Institute and a charter member of the Academy of Management’s Hall of Fame.David C. Wilson is Professor of Strategy and Organization in the University of Warwick where he is also Deputy Dean of the Business School. He is the author of eight books and over seventy journal articles. He was Chairman of the British Academy of Management (1994–1997) where he served for over ten years as an Executive member. He is a Fellow of the Academy, elected in 1994. He was Chairman of the scholarly society, the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) from 2002 to 2006. He has had a long association with the Journal Organization Studies, becoming Co-Editor (1992-1996), Deputy Editor (1996-1999) and finally Editor-in-Chief (1999–2003). He is currently Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for Organization Studies. He has been a member of EGOS for over twenty years and has served on the Board for the last eight years.

"... recommended to those interested in the field of strategic decision making. It offers a diverse set of topics and provides many ideas... and applications." (Interfaces)

• Notes on the Contributors ixAbout the Editors xxiPart I Introduction 11 Crucial Trends and Issues in Strategic Decision Making 3Paul C. Nutt And David C. Wilson2 Research on Strategic Decisions: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead 31Vassilis Papadakis, Ioannis Thanos, and Patrick BarwisePart II Key Theoretical Perspectives 713 Decision Making: It’s Not What You Think 73Henry Mintzberg And Frances Westley4 Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking 83Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, And David Obstfeld5 The Political Aspects of Strategic Decision Making 105John Child, Said Elbanna, and Suzana Rodrigues6 Organizational Identity and Strategic Decision Making 139Aimee L. Hamilton And Dennis A. GioiaPart III Conceptualizing Strategic Decision Making 1537 Building a Decision-making Action Theory 155Paul C. Nutt8 A Decision Process Model to Support Timely Organizational Innovation 197Andre L. Delbecq, Terri L. Griffith, Tammy L. Madsen, And Jennifer L. Woolley9 Decision Making in Groups: Theory and Practice 231Colin Eden And Fran AckermannPart IV Factors and Considerations That Impinge On Decision Making 27310 Decision Making in Professional Service Firms 275Tim Morris, Royston Greenwood, and Samantha Fairclough11 Risk Taking and Strategic Decision Making 307Philip Bromiley And Devaki Rau12 Decision Errors of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Kind 327Kim Boal And Mark Meckler13 Decision Making in Public Organizations 349Hal G. Rainey, John C. Ronquillo, And Claudia N. Avellaneda14 Strategic Decision Making and Knowledge: A Heideggerian Approach 379Haridimos Tsoukas15 Challenges of Using IT to Support Multidisciplinary Team Decision Making 403Michael Barrett and Eivor ObornPart V Recent Empirical Findings That Support Theories And Views 43116 The Bradford Studies: Decision Making and Implementation Processes and Performance 433Susan Miller17 Comparing the Merits of Decision-making Processes 449Paul C. Nutt18 Of Baseball, Medical Decision Making, and Innumeracy 501Lori Ferranti, Steven Cheng, and David Dilts19 The Dimensions of Decisions: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation 517Lori S. Franz and Michael W. KramerPart VI Methodology for The Study Of Decision Making 54120 Empirical Methods for Research on Organizational Decision-Making Processes 543Marshall Scott Poole and Andrew H. Van De Ven21 On the Study of Process: Merging Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches 581Paul C. Nutt22 The Bradford Studies: Issues Raised by These and Other Studies for the Understanding of Decision Making 619David C. WilsonPart VII Directions and Perspectives 64323 Discussion and Implications: Toward Creating a Unified Theory of Decision Making 645Paul C. Nutt and David C. WilsonIndex 679