作者
Margaret E Brooks
发表日期
2011/5/31
来源
Management Decision
卷号
49
期号
5
页码范围
683-693
出版商
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
简介
Purpose
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Indecision is not the hallmark of a great manager, but what do we know about when and why managers avoid or postpone decisions? The purpose of this paper is to discuss the limited research on indecision.
Design/methodology/approach
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This article reviews research from judgment and decision making, psychology, management, and marketing literatures to assemble what we already know about indecision. The review spans situational and personal determinants of indecision, highlighting what we know about when and why people experience indecision as well as who is predictably indecisive.
Findings
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Decisions are avoided when people are asked to justify them, when options are similar in attractiveness, and when there are a large number of options to consider. Indecision may sometimes be a result of systematic biases (i.e. omission bias and status quo bias), and indecisive people may be …
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