Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of whether engineers should be concerned with the nonreactive collection of information in a business context. A literature review results in an outline and categorization of nonreactive ...

Abstract: Research into the decision‐making process has raised the question as to why most managers do not adhere to the normative or rational model in practice. This paper reviews two empirical studies of variations in the ...

Abstract: Studies of organizational decision making provide ample evidence that the rational method of decision making is honored more in the breach than in the observance. Using these studies as a point of departure, this paper ...