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Peer reviewedPinfield, Lawrence T. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986
A field study of Canadian Government bureaucracy illustrates two perspectives on strategic decision processes. Processes follow a structured progression or are anarchic, wherein decisions are inferred from outcomes of fortuitous combinations of events. Both perspectives facilitate processual understanding but fail to specify the influence of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Field Studies, Foreign Countries
