Selectivity and Selective Perception: An Investigation of Managers' Belief Structures and Information Processing
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal
- Vol. 31 (4) , 873-896
- https://doi.org/10.5465/256343
Abstract
Dearborn and Simon's evidence of departmental bias in problem identification has prompted a scholarly concern about managers' information-processing capabilities. Through measures of managers' entire work histories, their belief structures, and three indexes of information processing in an ill-structured decision situation, the present research conceptually replicated and extended Dearborn and Simon's early work.’ Contrary to prevailing belief about managers' information-processing limitations, the managers in this investigation did not emerge as simple-minded information processors.Keywords
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