The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making comprehensively surveys theory and research on organizational decision-making, broadly conceived. Emphasizing psychological perspectives, while encompassing the insights of economics, political science, and sociology, it provides coverage at the individual, group, organizational, and inter-organizational levels of analysis. In-depth case studies illustrate the practical implications of the work surveyed. Each chapter is authored by one or more leading scholars, thus ensuring that this Handbook is an authoritative reference work for academics, researchers, advanced students, and reflective practitioners concerned with decision-making in the areas of Management, Psychology, and HRM.1. Organizational Decision Making: Mapping Terrains on Different Planets ; PART I: THE CONTEXT AND CONTENT OF DECISION MAKING ; Boom and Bust Behavior: On the Persistence of Strategic Decision Biases ; Information Overload Revisited ; Decision Making with Inaccurate, Unreliable Data ; Borgs in the Org? Organizational Decision Making and Technology ; Making the Decision to Monitor in the Workplace: Cybernetic Models and the Illusion of Control ; Culture and Decision Making ; PART II: DECISION MAKING DURING CRISES AND HAZARDOUS SITUATIONS ; Facing the Threat of Disaster: Decision Making When the Stakes are High ; The Fit Between Crisis Types and Management Attributes as a Determinant of Crisis Consequences ; Employing Adaptive Structuring as a Cognitive Decision Aid in High Reliability Organizations ; Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making in Organizations: Mechanisms of Effective Decision Making ; PART III: DECISION MAKING PROCESSES ; Cognitively Skilled Organizational Decision Making: Making Sense of Deciding ; Linking Rationality, Politics and Routines in Organizational Decision Making ; Superstitious Behavior as a Byproduct of Intelligent Adaptation ; On the Implications of Behavioral Decision Theory for Managerial Decision Making: Contributions and Challenges ; Intuition in Organizational Decision Making ; Affect and Information Processing ; Individual Differences and Decision Making ; Group Composition and Decision Making ; PART IV: CONSEQUENCES PRODUCED BY DECISIONS ; Making Sense of Real Options Reasoning: An Engine of Choice that Backfires? ; The Social Construction of Rationality in Organizational Decision Making ; When "Decision Outcomes" are not the Outcomes of Decisions ; What Lies Behind Organizational Facades and How Organizational Facades Lie: An Untold Story of Organizational Decision Making ; PART V: TOWARD MORE EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING ; Teaching Decision Making ; Facilitating Serious Play ; Do Activities of Consultants and Management Scientists Affect Decision Making by Managers? ; Risk Communication in Organizations ; Structuring the Decision Process: An Evaluation of Methods ; Strategy Workshops and "Away-Days" as Ritual ; Troubling Futures: Scenarios and Scenario Planning for Organizational Decision Making