Academic Library Directors’ Strategic Decision-Making Process

Terms for Academic Library Directors

IN 1973, ARTHUR MCANALLY AND ROBERTDOWNSauthored a seminal article on the changing role of the university library director. This article takes a look at McAnally and Downs’s findings twenty years later to determine whether the changes outlined in 1973 are still valid today. Additional sources of strife for university library directors are outlined and requirements for today’s library directors ...

Strategic Decision Making: Process, Models, and Theories

Understanding Managers' Strategic Decision- Making Process

This goal of this paper is to establish a research agenda that will lead lo a stream of research that closes Ihe gap bclwcen actual and normative strategic managerial decision making. We start by distinguishing strategic managerial decision making (choices) from other choices. Next, we propose a conceptual model of how managers make strategic decisions ihat is consistent with the observed gap b...

Strategic Decision Making Process Research : Are Entrepreneur and Owner Managed Firms Different ? Strategic Decision Making

The research into SME’s is often presented as quite distinct from strategy or general management research. This paper examines the literature on Strategic Decision Making (SDM) process, drawing in some findings from the SME sector which show some key similarities. The paper makes proposals for research into SDM processes in SME’s, which would clarify both the general management theory and theor...

Strategic Decision Making

This paper introduces a methodology for strategic intervention in collective aeclsion making. The methodology is based on (1) a decomposition of the problem into a few main controversial issues, (2) systematic interviews of subject area specialists to obtain a specification of the decision setting, consisting of a list of stakeholders with their capabilities, positions, and salience on each of ...