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- Title
IMPLANTED DECISION-MAKING: AMERICAN OWNED FIRMS IN BRITAIN.
- Authors
Mallory, Geoffrey R.; Butler, Richard J.; Cray, David; Hickson, David J.; Wilson, David C.
- Abstract
Decision-making processes are compared in American and British subsidiaries in Britain to investigate how far processual characteristics as distinct from structural features, may be implanted in subsidiaries abroad. Managements in the British owned subsidiaries tend to route their biggest decisions through the formalities of standing committees in conformity with customary procedures, taking a comparatively long time to do so. Managements in the American owned subsidiaries tend to rely on informally assembled working groups which help to arrive at a decision comparatively rapidly through a process which does not ostensibly follow any recognized procedure. The British mode is formal within a nonformalized customary pattern, the American mode informal within a formalized frame.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED Kingdom; DECISION making; SUBSIDIARY corporations; INFLUENCE; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; TASK forces; PROBLEM solving; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Journal of Management Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), 1983, Vol 20, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
0022-2380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6486.1983.tb00204.x