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- Title
The Effects of Causal Attributions on Decision Makers' Responses to Performance Downturns.
- Authors
Ford, Jeffrey D.
- Abstract
Understanding organizations' responses to performance downturns requires understanding decision makers' attributions of causality. Drawing on Weiner's causal attribution model, this paper presents a framework for categorizing causal attributions and relates them to internal and external response strategies. Characteristics of downturns, organizations, and decision makers that influence attributions and the dynamics of attributions are discussed.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATION; CAUSATION (Philosophy); DECISION making; PERFORMANCE; MANAGEMENT; ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology); ORGANIZATIONAL structure; CHOICE (Psychology); INTERNAL auditing; ORGANIZATIONAL change; MANAGEMENT science; RISK assessment
- Publication
Academy of Management Review, 1985, Vol 10, Issue 4, p770
- ISSN
0363-7425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AMR.1985.4279100