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Introduction: Purpose and Structure of the Book

In: Decision-Making in an Organizational Context

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  • Josep Maria Rosanas

    (Organizations and Humanities IESE Business School)

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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.

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  • Josep Maria Rosanas, 2013. "Introduction: Purpose and Structure of the Book," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Decision-Making in an Organizational Context, pages 1-8, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-32415-3_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137324153_1
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