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1 Online-Ressource (127 Seiten)
Ausgabe:
First edition 2016
ISBN:
9781786351197
Serie:
Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing volume 24
Inhalt:
Where do brilliant executive wisdom and actions come from? Making Tough Decisions Well and Badly (MTDWB) assesses the literature that examines executives' conscious and non-conscious actions in decision making, implementation and assessment of outcomes
Inhalt:
Front Cover -- Making Tough Decisions Well and Badly: Framing, Deciding, Implementing, Assessing -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Case-Based Causal Mapping of Bad and Good Decisions -- Introduction: Linking Decisions to Form a Strategy -- Propositions on Entrepreneurial Strategy-Making -- Causal Mapping Analysis -- The Millie Case -- Limitations -- A Generic Causal-Map Model of One Category of Entrepreneur Behavior -- Detailed Causal-Map of Entrepreneur Start-Up, Growth, and Demise -- Start-Up -- Growth -- Demise
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Evaluation of Outcomes of 17 Decisions Areas across the Three Stages -- Implications for Research on Retailing Entrepreneur Behavior -- References -- Best and Worst Practices in Management Performance Audits: Constructing and Testing an Algorithmic Model -- Introduction -- The Research Gap Triangle -- TMPA and Program Evaluation Theory -- Three Threats to DMO Evaluation Validity -- Experiment of DMO's Marketing Programs -- Insights from Marketing Audit Theory -- TMPA Checklists Proposal via a Meta-Evaluation -- Meta-Evaluation Results of 10 TMPA Reports -- Selection of Reports
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Meta-Evaluation by Third Party Evaluators -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- References -- Appendix -- System Dynamics Research of Bad and Good Decision Processes and Outcomes -- Introduction: Systems Thinking -- Tools for Systems Thinking -- Building Micro-worlds -- Two Useful Principles for Modeling Micro-worlds -- A Framework for Systems-Thinking Research -- Conclusions and Recommendations for Improving Decision Making -- References -- Decisions about Decisions: Leveraging the Internet to Distribute Influence in Organisational Buying Centres -- The Issue -- Significant Prior Research
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Conceptual Framework -- Proposition Development -- Research Method -- Data Collection -- Sample -- Questionnaire Design -- Results -- Separation of High and Low-Internet-Usage Companies -- Analysis of Influence Patterns -- Discussion -- Concluding Remarks -- The Lesson to Be Learned about Hard Decisions -- References -- Making Decisions Well and Badly: How Stakeholders' Discussions Influence Individual Executives' Decision Confidence and Competence -- Introduction -- Decision Competence (DCM) -- Decision Confidence (DCF) -- A Model of Decision Competence versus Decision Confidence
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Matrix of Decision Competence: Decision Confidence Combinations -- Application of the Model to Organizations -- Quadrant 1: Low Decision Quality and High Decision Confidence -- Quadrant 2: High Decision Quality and High Decision Confidence -- Quadrant 3: Low Decision Quality and Low Decision Confidence -- Quadrant 4: High Decision Quality and Low Decision Confidence -- Overview of the Model -- Managers' Poor Decision Competencies -- Experiment -- Sample -- Procedure -- Explanation of the Case-Based Scenarios -- Scenario A: Fast Food Promotion -- Scenario B: Strategic Pricing Decision
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Scenario C: Selecting a Venue
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ISBN 9781786351203
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Making tough decisions well and badly: framing, deciding, implementing, assessing Bingley : Emerald, 2016 ISBN 9781786351203
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Englisch
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