Empirical Examination of TOP Management Characteristics and Strategic Decision Making

Decision making model and behavior of Iranian top managers

Aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. We believe the aesthetics of management is important, but little understood, aspect of organizational life. We propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. In this article we try to discover the role of aesthetic in man...

Strategic Decision-making Processes: the Role of Management and Context

This paper investigates the relationship between the process of Strategic Decision (SD) making and management and contextual factors. First, drawing on a sample of SDs, it analyzes the process through which they are taken, into seven dimensions: comprehensiveness/rationality, financial reporting, rule formalization, hierarchical decentralization, lateral communication, politicization, problem-s...

Strategic Planning for Value-based Management: an Empirical Examination

Companies have obligation to create real economic value for their shareholders. Managers and top executives have been under constant pressures to adopt “value-based management” from their shareholders and other market participants. Participants in financial markets are actively involved in individual companies’ operations through leveraged buyouts, hostile take-over, and proxy contests, and top...

Management Theories and Strategic Practices for Decision Making

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 ...