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Handbook of Decision Making

ISBN: 978-1-405-16135-0

April 2010

Wiley-Blackwell

720 pages

Description
HANDBOOK OF DECISION MAKING

This handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of research and theories on decision making in organizations at the strategic level of analysis.

Chapters are authored by leading international scholars, with some illustrative case vignettes from practitioners. Each contributor was selected for his/her special knowledge of the field.

The Handbook addresses key questions confronting the decision making research of the past and the present, offers critiques, and suggests future research directions. Topics covered emphasize the classic decision theory perspectives while also incorporating recent insights from the fields of strategic choice, risk & uncertainty, scenario planning and complexity theory, with a broad social science perspective on the disciplinary roots of decision theory in economics, politics, and social theory.

This is a landmark reference volume for the field, offering scholars and practitioners:

  • Comprehensive, but accessible, coverage of classic and recent developments
  • Chapters by established international experts
  • Case analyses illustrating practical consequences of theories
  • Guide to new research directions and theory
About the Author
Paul C Nutt: Professor Nutt’s research on management decision making has been widely published, with more than 100 articles in journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Review Journal and the Academy of Management.  Dr. Nutt is a fellow of the Decisions Sciences Institute and has received numerous awards for his articles, including the Academy of Management Journal’s Hall of Fame award and three Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper awards from the Decision Sciences Institute.

David C Wilson:  is the author of eight books and over fifty articles on innovation, strategic decision making, organisational change and strategy.  He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, elected in 1994.  He is past chairman of the European Group for Organisation Studies and has had a long association with the journal, Organization Studies, of which he was Editor-in-Chief (1999–2003).   He acts as an advisor to the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence and various Government Departments in Europe as well as to many private sector companies including Nestle, Chrysalis, E.on, Credit Suisse and HSBC.