Decision Makers' Beliefs About the Causes and Effects of Structure: An Exploratory Study
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal
- Vol. 27 (2) , 271-291
- https://doi.org/10.5465/255925
Abstract
In a study of decision maker beliefs about the causes and effects of structure, a high level of agreement was found between the cognitive maps of a group of MBAs and a group of full time practicing managers concerning the overall causality of context, structure, and performance variables.Keywords
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