A B S T R AC T Although intuitive processes are critical for effective strategic decision making, there is little in the way of applied research on the topic. Apart from many popularized treatments of intuition in the literature today, there are only a handful of serious scholarly works on the subject. The majority of them are essentially theoretical in nature; field research in management sett...

The proposed contribution presents the results of an on going research work aiming at the implementation of a knowledge based system devoted to supporting the local government and the citizenship during the setting up process of a Natural Protected Area in Southern Italy. The system architecture integrates Group Decision Support Technology already available on the enterprise software market wit...

The proposed contribution presents the results of an on going research work aiming at the implementation of a knowledge based system devoted to supporting the local government and the citizenship during the setting up process of a Regional Natural Park in Southern Italy. The system architecture integrates Group Decision Support Technology already available on the enterprise software market with...

Managers at tactical and operational levels in many organizations frequently encounter similar decision problems. Decisions taken by different managers for a given problem in an organization vary due to differences in their decision making styles and/or subjectivity. Discovering classes or categories of decision makers with similar decision making styles can contribute towards organizational le...

This thesis consists of three theoretical essays that examine the role of organizational architecture in facilitating organizational adaptation to a changing environment. Chapter 1 develops a model of coordinated adaptation where an organization needs to respond to incoming information about its environment while at the same time retaining coordination between its activities. It analyzes how th...

Purpose: Healthcare costs have increased considerably over the past decades around the world. Major contributors to this trend are expensive medical technologies. In this research, we used a case study approach to understand how organizational and country level factors influence hospital investment behavior. Design and methodology: We developed a conceptual framework based upon decision theory ...

Increased business dynamics mandates modern organizations to proactively prepare their response to operating environment changes. Typically, large size organizations consist of multiple interconnected departments. Individual department strategies need to be balanced so as overall organization performance is improved. With increased number of interdependent strategic parameters, complexity of th...

This chapter introduces the perspective of strategy as the outcome of organizational sensemaking, knowledge creating, and decision making. The first three sections examine the processes by which an organization constructs meaning, creates knowledge, and makes decisions that drive patterns of action. The ensuing sections show how the three processes are interconnected to form cycles of learning ...