Crowdsourced Knowledge in Organizational Decision Making

Social-Organizational Knowledge and Managerial Decision-Making

Punctuated Equilibrium Models in Organizational Decision Making

8.1 Two Research Conundrums..................................................................................................134 8.1.1 Lindblom’s Theory of Administrative Incrementalism...........................................134 8.1.2 Wildavsky’s Theory of Budgetary Incrementalism.................................................135 8.1.3 The Diverse Meanings of Budgetary “Incrementalism”.......

Crowd Learning: Improving Online Decision Making Using Crowdsourced Data

We analyze an online learning problem that arises in crowdsourcing systems for users facing crowdsourced data: a user at each discrete time step t can chooseK out of a total of N options (bandits), and receives randomly generated rewards dependent on user-specific and option-specific statistics unknown to the user. Each user aims to maximize her expected total rewards over a certain time horizo...

The Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Managers' Decision Making Style

If you consider different activities of managers, it can be seen clearly that decision making is the essence of all management activities. Decision making is counted as integral components of management and is manifested somehow in any management duty. On the other hand, organizational culture is a pattern from fundamental default that a special group created it in the solution of problems to c...

An organizational ethics decision-making process.

The management team of Memorial Medical Center must make a decision regarding the continuation of one of its outpatient clinics. To provide better community service, MMC developed three outpatient clinics throughout a large metropolitan area. Over the past several years, one of the clinics has consistently been a financial loser. The losses have grown even as the costs of maintaining the clinic...