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Decision making for business : a reader / edited by Graeme Salaman at the Open University.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : SAGE Publications in association with The Open University, 2002Description: xi, 278 pISBN:
  • 0761974113
  • 0761974105
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • HF 150
Contents:
1- Perfect failure: the Bay of Pigs; 2- Anatomy of a fatal business strategy (the Boise Cascade Corporation); 3-Summary of basic concepts in the behavioral theory of the Firm; 4- Decision-making in organizations; 5- Decision-making as a political process; 6-The irrationality of action and action rationality: decisions, ideologies and organizational actions; 7- The Hospital and its negotiated order; 8- Practicalities of rule use; 9- Strategic management in an enacted world; 10- Role of managerial learning...; 11- The cognitive perspective on strategic decision-making; 12- Impact of organizational culture on approaches to organizational problem-solving; 13- Organizational forms: can we choose them? 14- The Cult(ure) of the customer; 15- Managerialism and social welfare; 16- From decision to action in organizations: decision-making as a social representation.
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Book Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Library Shelves HF 150 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available W0001299

Includes bibliographical references for each themed chapter. Chapter 7 deals with hospitals.

1- Perfect failure: the Bay of Pigs; 2- Anatomy of a fatal business strategy (the Boise Cascade Corporation); 3-Summary of basic concepts in the behavioral theory of the Firm; 4- Decision-making in organizations; 5- Decision-making as a political process; 6-The irrationality of action and action rationality: decisions, ideologies and organizational actions; 7- The Hospital and its negotiated order; 8- Practicalities of rule use; 9- Strategic management in an enacted world; 10- Role of managerial learning...; 11- The cognitive perspective on strategic decision-making; 12- Impact of organizational culture on approaches to organizational problem-solving; 13- Organizational forms: can we choose them? 14- The Cult(ure) of the customer; 15- Managerialism and social welfare; 16- From decision to action in organizations: decision-making as a social representation.

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