Design of decision-making organizations

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-89

  Christensen, Michael ^a   Knudsen, Thorbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decision making; Evaluation; Organizational architecture; Organizational design

Indexed keywords

DECISION-MAKING EVALUATION; DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURE; HYBRID STRUCTURE; MILITARY INTELLIGENCE; ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; POLYARCHIES; PURCHASING DEPARTMENT; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

PURCHASING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 74849120134     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1096     Document Type: Article

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