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routine (operations) > major decision/event > project > adjustment > routine which correspond to the chosen temporal hierarchy … decision‐making process. Attention should be paid to changes that major decisions, events, and projects impose on …
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This article posits a paradigm of levels of success for strategic decision outcomes. A high level of strategic decision … strategic decision success. Philip Morris’s decision in 1984 to diversify into the food processing industry is proffered as the … epitome of a highly successful strategic choice. General Motors’ decision in 1978 to reinvent the corporation is advanced as a …
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Culture is an overarching phenomenon that helps individuals make sense of their world. However, culture is not an unchanging “given.” Members of a society actively create culture and, through their activities and interactions, sustain or change this culture. In an organizational setting,...
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The classification of strategic issue terms, as used by managers and management teams in decision making, has …
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Management decision constitutes the most important thing that managers do. Given the significance and complexity of … and dimensions. Such is not the case. Much writing that purports to treat various aspects of management decision takes … decision makers. The consequence of this diffused and disjointed approach is a general misconception of the essence of …
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This article is concerned with the decision process and examines the relationships among information attributes …, strategic alternatives’ evaluation and group decision support systems (GDSS) in the context of database management. The …
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simple method for making trade‐offs that help the decision maker in considering the value of one objective in terms of …. According to the experiences gained from the case study, the decision makers found the trade‐offs difficult to make. However …
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business units, executives need effective decision making processes that are capable of measuring key indices quickly …, accurately and effectively. The aim of this article is to conduct exploratory research into management decision making in the … the benefits and shortcomings of the change evaluation approach as part of the management decision making process and …
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The aim of this paper is to determine current management thinking on how the business excellence model (BEM) is used within organisations. In many cases when organisational change models are applied in organisations the emphasis is on advocacy and implementation. There is a need to allow...
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Decribes how ESC, a holding company for a gas and electric utility and non‐utility energy business, completed the acquisition of Oracle’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution (finance and related applications) at a cost of US$6.5 million in March 1997. From initiation to completion,...
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