Handbook of Decision Making

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