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1 – 2 of 2Considers the “rational” decision‐making model and argues that it neitherdescribes actual decision‐making processes nor can be used as anadequate guide to effective decision…
Abstract
Considers the “rational” decision‐making model and argues that it neither describes actual decision‐making processes nor can be used as an adequate guide to effective decision making as it ignores potent social, political and cognitive influences. Suggests that the main assumptions of the model are, in practice, unrealistic, and offers an alternative framework, emphasizing cultural, structural and processual factors, as a more useful guide to effective decision making.
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Claus D. Jacobs and Loizos Th. Heracleous
To conceptualize and theorize dialogue's diagnostic as well as generative functions for strategic innovation and organizational change.
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Purpose
To conceptualize and theorize dialogue's diagnostic as well as generative functions for strategic innovation and organizational change.
Design/methodology/approach
Conceptual development with case illustration.
Findings
Strategic innovation requires shifts in existing mental models of organizational actors that underlie the overall strategy paradigm of a firm. Dialogue as a form of reflective conversation enables actors to alter managers' mental models through conscious, critical exploration.
Research limitations/implications
Conceptual framework introduces reflective dialogue, as a crucial processual element for encouraging shifts in mental maps and as a necessary, but not sufficient condition for strategy innovation; provides an analytical framework for enhancing understanding of the emergent processes of strategic innovation, and for studying shifts in organizational actors' mental models.
Practical implications
Provides organizational change agents and strategists with perspectives and frameworks for appreciating and fostering reflective dialogue in the context of strategic thinking and innovation.
Originality/value
Concept of reflective dialogue and associated frameworks link micro‐levels and macro‐levels of strategy innovation and address critical process elements.
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