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- Title
SPORADIC, FLUID AND CONSTRICTED PROCESSES: THREE TYPES OF STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING IN ORGANIZATIONS.
- Authors
Cray, David; Mallory, Geoffrey R.; Butler, Richard J.; Hickson, David J.; Wilson, David C.
- Abstract
Using 136 cases of strategic decision-making described by a number of variables drawn from the literature, three distinct types of decision-making processes are found. These are termed sporadic, fluid and constricted processes. They are parsimonious characterizations of decision-making processes which, given the variety of the 30 organizations from which the cases are drawn, should be generalizable to a wide range of contexts.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; DECISION making; STRATEGIC planning; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; CORPORATIONS; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; SOCIAL change; CHIEF executive officers; DECISION theory; INDUSTRIES; MANAGEMENT science; GROUP decision making
- Publication
Journal of Management Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), 1988, Vol 25, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
0022-2380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00020.x