1988
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00020.x
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SPORADIC, FLUID AND CONSTRICTED PROCESSES: THREE TYPES OF STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING IN ORGANIZATIONS[1]

Abstract: Using 136 cases of strategic decision-making described by a number of variables drawn from the literature, three distinct types of decision-making processes are found. These are termed sporadic, fluid and constricted processes. They are parsimonious characterizations of decision-making processes which, given the variety of the 30 organizations from which the cases are drawn, should be generalizable to a wide range of contexts.

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“…19, NO. 2, 1993 RASHEED, AND DATTA Cray, Mallory, Butler, Hickson & Wilson, 1988;Nutt, 1984). Each study was then classified by one of the authors along four key dimensions: sample, data sources and methods, measures of key variables, and major findings.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…19, NO. 2, 1993 RASHEED, AND DATTA Cray, Mallory, Butler, Hickson & Wilson, 1988;Nutt, 1984). Each study was then classified by one of the authors along four key dimensions: sample, data sources and methods, measures of key variables, and major findings.…”
Section: Review Of Past Empirical Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…La notion d'approche fait rbfkrence a un ensemble ou une configuration de caractkristiques propres a un type de dkmarche et de processus. Selon les chercheurs de Bradford (Cray et al, 1988(Cray et al, , 1991Hickson et al, 1986), la description des caractkristiques de chaque type constitue une premikre ktape de dkveloppements thkonques, la seconde ktant d'expli-152 DESROSIERS quer les diffkrences observkes. Ces chercheurs estiment aussi que l'klaboration d'une typologie kvite les gknkralisations outrancibres sur un type particulier de dkmarche ou modile dkcisionnel et permet de raffiner la comprkhension des phknombnes ktudiks.…”
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“…Celle de Mintzberg et al (1976) et celle de Nutt (1984) comportent un plus grand nombre de types (soit sept et cinq respectivement ) et reposent sur une vision rationaliste de la rkalitk puisque tous leurs types sont dkcrits d partir des ktapes logiques d'une prise de dkcision. Tout comme la nbtre, la typologie de l'kquipe de Bradford (Cray et al, 1988(Cray et al, , 1991Hickson et al, 1986) est plus parcimonieuse (comprend trois types seulement) et sans postulat rationaliste en cherchant A dCcrire les klkments qui caracttrisent les processus et non pas les ktapes 10giques. La principale diffkrence ici concerne I'approche de type expressif absente dans la typologie de Bradford, ce qui remet en question la valeur empirique de cette approche.…”
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“…A strategy can be seen as a pattern in a stream of decisions (Mintzberg and Waters, 1982). The decision taken influences the information gathered, the options considered, and the arenas in which the action takes place (Cray, et al 1988). Understanding the strategies of organizations inevitably requires a clearer comprehension of the process of decision-making.…”
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