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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461771803321

Autore

Frame J. Davidson

Titolo

Framing decisions [[electronic resource] ] : decision making that accounts for irrationality, people, and constraints / / J. Davidson Frame

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, 2013

ISBN

1-283-70023-9

1-118-22186-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Jossey-Bass business & management series

Disciplina

153.8/3

Soggetti

Decision making

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1: An Evolving Decision-Making Paradigm; The Traditional Paradigm; The Real World; Rethinking Decision Making; Social Context; Constraints; The Cognitive Challenge; Adjusting to the New Paradigm; Conclusion: It Isn't Easy Getting It Right; 2: Decisions and Decision Making; Different Perspectives on Decision making; Decision Science; Economics; Public Policy; Social Psychology; Psychology; Law: Adjudication; Neuroscience; Philosophy; Rational, Irrational, Nonrational Decisions; Dealing with Unknowns; Handling Risk

Handling UncertaintyWorking with Risk and Uncertainty; 3: The Social Context of Decision Making; The Social Context; Stakeholders in Decision Making; The Community and Social Forces; The Social Space of Decision making; Allison's Multiple Perspectives on Decision making; The Link Between Stakeholder and Decision-Maker; The Implementation Challenge; Accommodating External Forces; Conclusion; 4: The Organizational Dimension; Organizational Structure; Chain-of-Command Structure; Self-Directed Team Structure; Decision-Making Impact of Organizational Architecture; Organizational Process

People in OrganizationsOrganizational Culture; Athenian Versus Spartan Outlooks; Risk-Taking Versus Risk-Avoiding Outlooks; Innovative Versus Legacy Outlooks; Conclusion; 5: The Moral Dimension; Broad Categories of Moral Failings; Deceit; Negligence;



Illegal Behavior; Moral Hazard; Principal-Agent Dilemma; Morality, Ethics, and Legality: They Are Different; Last Word; 6: People as Decision-Makers; Factors That Affect How Individuals Make Decisions; Personality; Creative Capacity; Intelligence; Competence and Capability; Cognitive State; Psychological State

Personality Factors of Particular Importance to Decision MakingA Unique Perspective on Personality and Decision making: Elliott Jaques, Human Capability, and Time Span of Discretion; Conclusion; 7: The Wisdom-and Foolishness-of Crowds; Individual Versus Group Decision-Participation Spectrum; Autocrat; Consultative Leader; Primus Inter Pares; Council; Self-Directed Work Unit; Community; Making Decisions in Groups; Degrees of Consensus; Defining Consensus; Nature of Consensus; Decision Rules; Reaching a Decision; Setting; Steps Toward Making a Decision in Groups

The Wisdom and Foolishness of CrowdsIndividuals Versus Groups; The Wisdom of Crowds Perspective; Distributed Collaboration; Honeybee Decision Making; 8: The Biology of Decision Making; Brain Basics; The Lazy Brain; Template Solutions; Resistance to Change; Elusive Reality; Visual Illusions: What You See Isn't What You Get; Examples of Visual Illusions; Filling in the Blanks with Established Images; Filling in the Blanks for Events That Have Not Yet Happened; When Things Aren't Quite Aligned; Compensating for Environmental Conditions: Example 1

Compensating for Environmental Conditions: Example 2

Sommario/riassunto

The economic crisis of 2008-2009 was a transformational event: it demonstrated that smart people aren't as smart as they and the public think. The crisis arose because a lot of highly educated people in high-impact positions- political power brokers, business leaders, and large segments of the general public-made a lot of bad decisions despite unprecedented access to data, highly sophisticated decision support systems, methodological advances in the decision sciences, and guidance from highly experienced experts. How could we get things so wrong? The answer,



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463431203321

Titolo

The Routledge International handbook of globalization studies / / edited by Bryan S. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-87883-8

0-203-72283-3

1-283-96500-3

1-135-87876-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (729 p.)

Collana

Routledge International Handbooks

Altri autori (Persone)

TurnerBryan S

Disciplina

303.48/2

303.482

337

Soggetti

Globalization -- Cross-cultural studies

Globalization -- Economic aspects

Globalization - History

Globalization -- History

Globalization -- Social aspects

Social evolution

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Paperback edition published in 2011"--T.p. verso.

Nota di contenuto

The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Part I: Theories and definitions; 1 Theories of globalization: issues and origins; 2 Limiting theory: rethinking approaches to cultures of globalization; 3 Economic theories of globalization; 4 Internet and globalization; 5 Anti-globalization movements: from critiques to alternatives; 6 History and hegemony: the United States and twenty-first century globalization; 7 Vulnerability and globalization: the social impact of globalization

Part II: Substantive issues8 Transformations of the world's population: the demographic revolution; 9 All that is molten freezes again:



migration history, globalization, and the policies of newness; 10 Climate change, globalization, and carbonization; 11 Infectious disease and globalization; 12 Globalization, disasters, and disaster response; 13 The globalization of crime; 14 Religion out of place? The Globalization of fundamentalism; 15 Globalization and Indigenous peoples: new old patterns; 16 Genocide in the global age; 17 Global elites; 18 Globalization, ethnic conflict, and nationalism

19 The global drive to commodify pensionsPart III: New institutions and cultures; 20 Popular culture, fans, and globalization; 21 Film and globalization: from Hollywood to Bollywood; 22 Global cities; 23 Crossing divides: consumption and globalization in history; 24 Pluralism, globalization, and the "modernization" of gender and sexual relations in Asia; 25 Globalization and food: the dialectics of globality and locality; 26 Borders, passports, and the global mobility; 27 Globalization of space: from the global to the galactic; 28 Globalization and Americanization; Part IV: Critical solutions

29 Globalization and labour: putting the ILO in its place30 The globalization of human rights; 31 Global civil society and the World Social Forum; 32 Muslim cosmopolitanism: contemporary practice and social theory; 33 New cosmopolitanism in the social sciences; 34 Globalization and its possible futures; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook examines many negative aspects - new wars, slavery, illegal migration, pollution and inequality - but concludes with an examination of responses to these problems through human rights organizations, international la