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Primer on Decision Making How Decisions Happen

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ISBN-10: 0029200350

ISBN-13: 9780029200353

Edition: 1994

Authors: James G. March, Chip Heath

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Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 5/23/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 289
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Chip and Dan Heath are the co-authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck. They also write a monthly column called 'Made to Stick' for Fast Company magazine.They have spoken and consulted at organisations such as Nike, Microsoft, the Nature Conservancy, the Navy, USAID/Tanzania and the American Heart Association.

Acknowledgments
Preface
Limited Rationality
The Idea of Rational Choice
Limited (or Bounded) Rationality
Theories of Attention and Search
Risk and Risk Taking
Rule Following
Decision Making as Rule Following
Rules, Identities, and ActionRule Development and Change
Appropriate Rules or Consequential Choice?
Multiple Actors: Teams and Partners
Interpersonal Consistency and Teams
Interpersonal Inconsistencies
Social Bases of Inconsistencies
Uneasy Partners
Multiple Actors: Conflict and Politics
Decisions and Power
Decisions and Coalitions
Participation and Decision Instabilities
Single Actors and Multiple Actors
Ambiguity and Interpretation
Order and Ambiguity in Decision Making
Ambiguous Bases of Decision Making
Loose Coupling in Organizations
Garbage Can Decision Process
Decision Making and the Construction of Meaning
Ambiguity and Understanding
Decision Engineering
Defining Decision Intelligence
Improving Adaptiveness
Using Knowledge
Creating Meaning
Notes
Additional Reading
Index
About the Author