Introduction: Purpose and Structure of the Book

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

A chapter in Decision-Making in an Organizational Context, 2013, pp 1-8 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Decisions are an everyday fact of life. Over the course of their lives, all people make a large number of decisions. Some of those decisions – the choice of a profession, getting married, moving to a far away place – are of great importance. Others – whether to take the bus into town or walk – are rather trivial. Sometimes, decisions may be linked: first comes the decision about where to go, and then the decision about how to get there (on foot, by bus, by taxi, etc.). Some decisions are strongly conditioned by the decision maker’s situation: when we say “we have no alternative but . . . ”, this means that our power of choice is indeed very limited. But sometimes when we say we have no alternative, what this actually means is that we have not thought enough about the actual possibilities.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Decision Maker; Organizational Context; Action Alternative; Decision Alternative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137324153_1

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