1st Edition

Interorganizational Decision Making

By Roger Chisholm Copyright 1972
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

As organizations have grown in scale and scope of activities, so have social pressures on every aspect of organizational activity from personnel policies to waste disposal practices. This volume is a rare example of a multidisciplinary approach to an important theoretical problem--the proper means of interorganizational decision making in light of these new pressures. This complex subject is here... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgments, I. THE CONCEPT OF INTERORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING, 1. Toward a Theory of Joint Decision Making, 2. The Concerting of Decisions as a Variable in Organizational Interaction, II. A FRAMEWORK FOR SOLVING JOINT DECISION PROBLEMS: INTRODUCTION, 3. Organizational Structures for Joint Decision Making: A Designer's Point of View, 4. Determinants o f Interdepartmental Conflict, 5. Effective Control through Coherent Decentralization in Separably and Non-Separably Structured Organizations, III. A FRAMEWORK FOR SOLVING JOINT DECISION PROBLEMS: ELABORATION, 6. Formal Modeling of Organizations, 7. Interorganizational Decision Making and Identity Conflict, 8. Decomposition Processes and Their Use In Joint Decision Making, IV . INTERORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING IN A BUSINESS CONTEXT, 9. The View from Inside: An Individualistic Approach to the Corporation, 10. Interorganization Problem Solving in a Channel of Distribution, 11. Joint Decision Technologies with a Production-Marketing Example, V. DECISION MAKING AT THE GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS INTERFACE, 12. An Organization-Set Model of Interorganizational Relations, 13. Attitudinal Patterns in Joint Decision Making in Multinational Firm-Nation State Relationships, 14. Some Welfare Problems of Intertemporal Decision Making, VI. INTERORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING IN GOVERNMENT, 15. Defense Organizations and Alliances, 16. Joint Decisions in Aerospace, 17. Coherent Decentralization of U.S. Defense Force Planning, VII. POSTSCRIPT: SOME FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

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Roger Chisholm