This introduction reviews the history and core principles of Charles Lindblom's concept of muddling and its application across a wide array of business decisions. The approach recognizes certain decisions as sequential, strategic practices and thus finds applications in a wide variety of...

Purpose: The premise of this paper is that tension exists among participants and parties engaged in projects. The uniqueness of development virtually assures this. The purpose of this paper is to propose that tension is a product of the precursors of complexity, uncertainty and equivocality,...

Purpose: This work is initiated under the premise that reliable evaluation methods are necessary to ensure investments in energy conservation, and the purpose of this paper is to contribute to that literature. It describes some pilot changes and their impact in an actual field study oriented...