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The Oxford handbook of organizational decision making Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Organizational Decision Making: Mapping Terrains on Different Planets Gerard P. Hodgkinson and William H. Starbuck xi xii xiii xxix 1 PART I THE CONTEXT AND CONTENT OF DECISION MAKING 2. Boom and Bust Behavior: On the Persistence of Strategic Decision Biases Michael Shayne Gary, Giovanni Dosi, and Dan Lovallo 3. Information Overload Revisited Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Karl E. Weick 4. Decision Making with Inaccurate, Unreliable Data John M. Mezias and William H. Starbuck 5. Borgs in the Org? Organizational Decision Making and Technology Terri L. Griffith, Gregory B. Northcraft, and Mark A. Fuller 6. Making the Decision to Monitor in the Workplace: Cybernetic Models and the Illusion of Control David Zweig, Jane Webster, and Kristyn A. Scott 7. Culture and Decision Making Jacques Rojot 33 56 76 97 116 134 PART II DECISION MAKING DURING CRISES AND HAZARDOUS SITUATIONS 8. Facing the Threat of Disaster: Decision Making When the Stakes are High Michal Tamuz and Eleanor T. Lewis 155 9. The Fit Between Crisis Types and Management Attributes as a Determinant of Crisis Consequences 174 Teri Jane Ursacki-Bryant, Carolyne Smart, and Ilan Vertinsky 10. Employing Adaptive Structuring as a Cognitive Decision Aid in High Reliability Organizations Karlene H. Roberts, Kuo Frank Yu, Vinit Desai, and Peter M. Madsen 11. Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making in Organizations: Mechanisms of Effective Decision Making Michael A. Rosen, Eduardo Salas, Rebecca Lyons, and Stephen M. Fiore 194 211 PART III DECISION MAKING PROCESSES 233 12. Cognitively Skilled Organizational Decision Making: Making Sense of Deciding Julia Balogun, Annie Pye, and Gerard P. Hodgkinson 13. Linking Rationality, Politics, and Routines in Organizational Decision Making 250 Isabelle Royer and Ann Langley 14. Superstitious Behavior as a Byproduct of Intelligent Adaptation 271 Jerker Denrell 15. On the Implications of Behavioral Decision Theory for Managerial Decision Making: Contributions and Challenges Zur Shapira 16. Intuition in Organizational Decision Making Eugene Sadler-Smith and Paul R. Sparrow 287 305 17. Affect and Information Processing Kevin Daniels 18. Individual Differences and Decision Making Emma Soane and Nigel Nicholson 19. Group Composition and Decision Making Elizabeth George and Prithviraj Chattopadhyay 325 342 361 PART IV CONSEQUENCES PRODUCED BY DECISIONS 20. Making Sense of Real Options Reasoning: An Engine of Choice that Backfires? Michael L. Barnett and Roger L. M. Dunbar 21. The Social Construction of Rationality in Organizational Decision Making Laure Cabantous, Jean-Pascal Gond, and Michael Johnson-Cramer 22. When "Decision Outcomes" are not the Outcomes of Decisions Bénédicte Vidaillet 23. What Lies Behind Organizational Facades and How Organizational Facades Lie: An Untold Story of Organizational Decision Making Eric Abrahamson and Philippe Baumard 383 399 418 437 PART V TOWARD MORE EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING 24. Teaching Decision Making Gerald F. Smith 25. Facilitating Serious Play Matt Statler and David Oliver 455 475 26. Do Activities of Consultants and Management Scientists Affect Decision Making by Managers? Alfred Kieser and Benjamin Wellstein 27. Risk Communication in Organizations A. John Maule 28. Structuring the Decision Process: An Evaluation of Methods George Wright and Paul Goodwin 29. Strategy Workshops and "Away Days" as Ritual Nicole Bourque and Gerry Johnson 3o. Troubling Futures: Scenarios and Scenario Planning for Organizational Decision Making Mark P. Healey and Gerard P. Hodgkinson Index 495 517 534 552 565 587