TY - JOUR
T1 - Interests behind managers' decisions
T2 - Why and when do managers decide for managerial or alternative concepts?
AU - Diefenbach, T.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Managers' decisions and decision-making still represent some fundamental puzzles. Often, managers decide for the same prevailing 'managerial' concepts - but sometimes they decide for fundamentally different, 'non-managerial' ones. The question is why and when exactly managers choose one or the other. The paper identifies and analyses some key explanatory variables behind managers' decision-making. It is assumed that, amongst other things, managers' interests play a crucial role. In order to interrogate this in more detail, a model of interest-based decision-making has been developed and used to identify key factors at the macro level (organisational environment), meso level (intra-organisational context), micro level (groups of managers), and individual level (individual managers). The analysis leads to the creation of a C-shaped model that states when managers opt for managerial or non-managerial concepts.
AB - Managers' decisions and decision-making still represent some fundamental puzzles. Often, managers decide for the same prevailing 'managerial' concepts - but sometimes they decide for fundamentally different, 'non-managerial' ones. The question is why and when exactly managers choose one or the other. The paper identifies and analyses some key explanatory variables behind managers' decision-making. It is assumed that, amongst other things, managers' interests play a crucial role. In order to interrogate this in more detail, a model of interest-based decision-making has been developed and used to identify key factors at the macro level (organisational environment), meso level (intra-organisational context), micro level (groups of managers), and individual level (individual managers). The analysis leads to the creation of a C-shaped model that states when managers opt for managerial or non-managerial concepts.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84885079164&doi=10.1504%2fIJMDM.2013.056910&partnerID=40&md5=7d054668cfde2d929309a4a1b919f4b3
U2 - 10.1504/IJMDM.2013.056910
DO - 10.1504/IJMDM.2013.056910
M3 - Article
VL - 12
SP - 413
EP - 432
JO - International Journal of Management and Decision Making
JF - International Journal of Management and Decision Making
SN - 1462-4621
IS - 4
ER -