This first Handbook of Decision Making presents a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches to the understanding of strategic decisions. Drawing evidence and authors from North America, Canada and Europe, the Handbook is a tour de force of understanding decision making from a variety of perspectives and contexts. Chapters in the Handbook are from leading experts in their field and include empirical, theoretical and review chapters. The comprehensive theoretical coverage combined with in-depth illustrative case vignettes from practitioners, will bridge academic and practical concerns. Topics covered emphasize the classic decision theory perspectives while also incorporating recent insights from the fields of strategic choice, risk complexity theory, economics, political sciences and sociology. The handbook includes applications to finance, economics and scenario planning, with a broad social science perspective onthe disciplinary roots of decision theory in economics, politics, and social theory.Paul C Nutt: Professor Nutts research on management decision making has been widely published, with more than 100 articles in journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Review Journal and the Academy of Management. Dr. Nutt is a fellow of the Decisions Sciences Institute and has received numerous awards for his articles, including the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame award and three Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper awards from the Decision Sciences Institute. David C Wilson: is the author of eight books and over fifty articles on innovation, strategic decision making, organisational change and strategy. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, elected in 1994. He is past chairman of the European Group for OrganisationStudies and has had a long association with the journal, Organization Studies, of which he was Editor-in-Chief (19992003). He acts as an advisor to the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence and various Government Departments in Europe as well as to many private sector companies including Nestle, Chrysalis, E.on, Credit Suisse and HSBC.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6135-0
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 600
- Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés