Ambiguity and Choice in OrganizationsScandinavian University Press, 1979 - 408 pages |
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... understanding of participant reports , we need to understand the development of belief structures in an organization under conditions of ambiguity . This review of some of the limitations of the complete cycle of choice suggests that we ...
... understanding of participant reports , we need to understand the development of belief structures in an organization under conditions of ambiguity . This review of some of the limitations of the complete cycle of choice suggests that we ...
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... understanding . Because the objective is taken as explaining why a particular organizational ( decision ) outcome occurred , the observed events is treated as having an exceptional status relative to events that did not occur ...
... understanding . Because the objective is taken as explaining why a particular organizational ( decision ) outcome occurred , the observed events is treated as having an exceptional status relative to events that did not occur ...
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... understanding alternative pasts is as significant as understanding alternative futures . The present chapter is in that tradition . We seek to use the study of four non - heroic decisions in a university as the basis for elaborating our ...
... understanding alternative pasts is as significant as understanding alternative futures . The present chapter is in that tradition . We seek to use the study of four non - heroic decisions in a university as the basis for elaborating our ...
Contents
People Problems Solutions and the Ambiguity | 24 |
Attention and the Ambiguity of Selfinterest | 38 |
Organizational Learning and the Ambiguity of the Past | 54 |
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