“…The political perspective in SDM Strategic decisions are shaped within contexts that encompass several characteristics such as urgency, complexity, ambiguity, duration, and composition of the decision-making team (Child et al, 2010;Clark and Maggitti, 2012;Haider and Mariotti, 2016). Such aspects of SDM may threaten the existence of scarce organizational resources due to the inherent risk, vested interests, and irreversible consequences (Smith et al, 1992), inducing considerable pressure, stress, and, subsequently, friction among decision makers (Clark and Maggitti, 2012).…”