Decision-making and Organizational Turbulence
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Acta Sociologica
- Vol. 22 (1) , 45-62
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000169937902200104
Abstract
A theoretical model of organizational decision-making in turbulent situa tions is developed on the basis of the organizational literature, and illus trated empirically from a study of Swedish educational organizations. The model is formulated under an assumption of rationality, but quite a differ ent kind of rationality from that in traditional theories of decision-making. The empirical illustrations are multimethodological, and include a com parative study and a case study as well as an episode of action research. They give a certain empirical support to the model, but also illuminate some of the practical difficulties to be resolved in connection with further research.1Keywords
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