Decisions within Organizations

Josep Maria Rosanas
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Josep Maria Rosanas: Organizations and Humanities IESE Business School

Chapter 7 in Decision-Making in an Organizational Context, 2013, pp 112-137 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In Chapter 4 we studied the interactions between two people as the basic building block of organizations. All organizations (businesses, schools, hospitals, foundations, government agencies, NGOs, etc.) are built on cooperation among two or more people; but the basic building block is the dyadic relationship between two people (boss and subordinate, worker and coworker, etc.). In some cases, such as in certain microorganizations, two people are all there is; in others, there may be hundreds of thousands, as in the case of large multinationals, or even many millions, as in large nations. The members of an organization are known as participants, or producers; they attempt to produce a product or service for other people, whom, in principle, we consider to be external to the organization. These other people (customers, students, patients, citizens, and so on) are generally referred to as consumers. But organizations themselves, and the dealings between organizations, are always founded on the relationships between two people, as analyzed and explained in Chapter 4.

Keywords: Intrinsic Motive; Mutual Trust; Extrinsic Motive; Basic Building Block; Personal Decision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137324153_8

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