Understanding How Concerns for the Natural Environment are Integrated into Prectical Strategic Decision Making: An Application of Ashby’s Law

Gerard J. Lewis and Neil Stewart
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Gerard J. Lewis: Faculty of Economics Dresden University of Applied Sciences
Neil Stewart: Manchester Business School

Chapter 38 in Synergy Matters, 2002, pp 223-228 from Springer

Abstract: Conclusions We have shown that Ashby’s Law can be applied to measure organisation performance and inform our understanding of strategic decision making.This is a positive first step since although research on the development of environmental performance indicators currently occupies a major area of activity in environmental management, it will be some time before criteria and metrics will contribute to organisational comparisons in this area In the meantime, a more promising way forward would be to develop the application of Ashby’s (1956) Law to cover non-rational (heuristic based) decision making. This would provide a more accurate picture of requisite variety in the organisation.

Keywords: Senior Manager; Strategic Decision; Business Performance; Green Performance; Environmental Management System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47467-0_38

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