Impacts of organizational culture and personality traits on decision-making in technical organizations

Systems Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-26

  Briggs, Clark ^a   Little, Patrick ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Decision making; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ACTIVITIES; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION METHODS; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; PERSONALITY TRAITS; TECHNICAL ASPECTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 52649104860     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20083     Document Type: Article

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