Objective of the study: In this essay, we problematize onto-epistemological assumptions organizational decision-making theories, focusing on concepts action and decision.Approach: Based epistemological perspective transaction, propose an understanding decision as a relational element in action, constructing explanation supported ontological reality.Originality/relevance: We introduce concept en...

Effective decision making is critical to team effectiveness. We examine decision making in the setting of self-organizing virtual teams, a setting that we expect to pose particular problems for effective decision making. A self-organizing team must develop effective practices in the absence of a formal organizational structure that guides the practices. A virtual team’s reliance on technologica...

R&D project selection is an important task for organizations with research and development project management. It is a complicated multi-stage decision-making process which involves groups of decision makers. Current research on R&D project selection mainly focused on mathematical decision models and their applications, but ignored the organizational aspect of the decision-making process. To ex...

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...

The aim of this study was to examine a psychosocial model of predicting perceived social status among faculty members. To this end, 135 faculty members in one of the state universities in Tehran, Iran, were recruited through convenient sampling. We used Perceived Organizational Support Scale (POSS), Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS), Participation in Organizational Decisions M...

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”.......

The increased use of information technology (IT) support for group decision making has augmented the need for research on the performance of groups using such support. The use of organizational memory in IT supported group decision making has been discussed in the recent literature. Proponents of the use of organizational memory have cautioned against the biases that memory may introduce in the...