Index

Uncertainty and Strategic Decision Making

ISBN: 978-1-78635-170-8, eISBN: 978-1-78635-169-2

ISSN: 2397-5210

Publication date: 5 November 2016

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(2016), "Index", Uncertainty and Strategic Decision Making (New Horizons in Managerial and Organizational Cognition), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 221-223. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2397-52102016028

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INDEX

Accuracy
, 110, 111, 119

Adaptive rationality
, 21–22

Agency
, 193

Articulation
, 97–98

Attentional diversity
, 181

Attentional engagement
, 176

Attentional perspective
, 175

Attentional selectivity
, 176

Attention focus
, 175

Bankruptcy
, 187n8

Behavioral strategy
, 3

Business analyst (BA)
, 160

Business directors (BDs)
, 160

Capability
, 34

Change management process
, 78

Chief Information Officer (CIO)
, 153

Chief Operation Officer (COO)
, 153

Claim
, 82–83

Coding guide
, 84

Cognitive frames
, 62

Cognitive process
, 63

Cognitive skills
, 193–194

Complex organizational environments
, 192

Crises

emergent, signals of
, 196–197

prediction
, 194–196

understanding of
, 193

Cross-functional decision-making
, 38n1

Customer acquisition costs
, 39n2

Decision-making
, 2–3, 19–20, 23–24, 37, 108

Decision rule
, 140

Environmental dynamism
, 34

Environmental observation/scanning
, 200–201

Environmental uncertainty
, 103, 105, 106, 107

Forecasting
, 102

Framing contests
, 38

Health Service Executive (HSE)
, 80, 81, 88

Heuristics
, 9, 19, 20–21

individual
, 140

See also Organizational heuristics

Holistic associations
, 152

Holistic perspective
, 24

Hot cognition
, 22–23

Human Resource Management (HRM)
, 39, 47–50

Information evaluation rules
, 136, 140

Information gathering rules
, 136, 140

Institutional entrepreneurship
, 193

Institutional theory
, 192

Interconnectedness
, 95, 97

Interpretation
, 52

Intuition
, 148, 149, 150–152, 160–166

Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU)
, 81, 88

Judgments
, 166

Knowledge
, 197–199

Knowledge calibration
, 104, 109–112

Knowledge structures
, 203, 204–205

Leadership
, 193, 207

Longitudinal study
, 149

Managerial and organizational cognition
, 17

Managerial cognition
, 35

Meaning giving and sense creation
, 95

Mental models
, 8, 12, 13, 23, 199–200, 203–204

Naturalistic decision-making
, 150

Neuroscience
, 10, 12, 22

New product development (NPD)
, 39, 40, 43–46, 46–47, 50

capability building blocks
, 41–42

New project ideas

consultation
, 156

generation of
, 155

NVIVO
, 63

Organizational attention
, 173–174

Organizational capabilities
, 35–38

Organizational change
, 78, 193

Organizational decision-making
, 148, 149

Organizational framing contests

data analysis
, 40–42, 50

Organizational heuristics
, 141

origin of
, 142–143

rule pattern as
, 138–142

understanding of
, 138

Organizational performance
, 173, 177–182

Organizational reality
, 79

Organizational relationships, linear hierarchical view of
, 79

Organizational system
, 203

Organizational theory
, 78

Organizations

changing nature of
, 18

power and information flows
, 18–19

Ownership of information
, 68–70

Perceptions
, 102

Perceptual accuracy and performance
, 105–108

Perceptual errors
, 102, 104, 106, 107, 109

Performance feedback
, 178

Prediction uncertainty
, 115

Prioritization
, 153–156

Public sector leadership
, 193, 196, 197, 198

Reasoning
, 2, 10

Recursive dialogue
, 63–64, 73–74

Resource dependency
, 113

Response uncertainty
, 4

Risk
, 5, 7

Rule pattern
, 128, 133–135

Sales Force Automation (SFA)
, 58

Scanning
, 103, 108–109

Schema
, 36–38, 40, 50–52, 62, 63, 66

Schematic knowledge
, 203

Sense creation
, 95

Sensegiving
, 79–80

Sensemaking
, 3, 5, 18, 19, 24, 79–80

change detection
, 196

Simple rules
, 128, 132–133

Social aspiration levels
, 173

Social cognitive neuroscience
, 148

Social media
, 24–25

Social performance feedback
, 178

State uncertainty
, 4

Strategic change processes
, 60–63

Strategic decision-making
, 128

uncertainty
, 129–131

Strategic importance and accuracy
, 119

Strategic renewal
, 34–37, 42–44

Strategy making and strategic management
, 148

Strategy process
, 42

Structuration and framing theories
, 60

Structuration theory
, 69, 73

Top managers, key role of
, 102

Uncertainty

in action-outcome relationships
, 42

agenda for
, 17–26

dimensions of
, 106

internal environment
, 44

measurement
, 105

organizational action
, 38

perceptions of
, 7

planning
, 14–16

strategic action
, 60

strategic change
, 79

strategic decision-making
, 2–3, 129–131

teams and across larger collectives
, 11–14

types of
, 3–11