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Decision Premises, Decision Cycles and Decomposition

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This paper deals with firms as both users and generators of productive knowledge and decision-making skills. Human cognitive powers and human knowledge are often insufficient for the formal logic of choice, but well adapted to pattern making and pattern matching; shared patterns are part of organizational and social capital. From problem identification to the review of outcomes, decision processes are guided by decision premises, and complexity is decomposed by fallible organizational design; thus cognitive repertoires develop (and sometimes deteriorate) over time. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Loasby, Brian J, 2000. "Decision Premises, Decision Cycles and Decomposition," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 9(4), pages 709-731, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:9:y:2000:i:4:p:709-31
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    1. Margit Osterloh & Bruno Frey & Jetta Frost, 2001. "Managing Motivation, Organization and Governance," Journal of Management & Governance, Springer;Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), vol. 5(3), pages 231-239, September.
    2. James Foreman-Peck & Tom Nicholls, 2015. "Inter-regional mobility of entrepreneurial SMEs," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 54(1), pages 57-87, January.
    3. Brian Loasby, 2005. "Entrepreneurship, Evolution and the Human Mind," Papers on Economics and Evolution 2005-13, Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography.

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