Are Retrenchment Decisions Rational? The Role of Information in Times of Budgetary Stress.

Ashar, Hanna; Shapiro, Jonathan Z.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Are Retrenchment Decisions Rational? The Role of Information in Times of Budgetary Stress.

Ashar, Hanna; Shapiro, Jonathan Z.

Journal of Higher Education, v61 n2 p121-41 Mar-Apr 1990

Analysis of the relationship between performance data and changes in faculty size of 40 departments in a College of Arts and Sciences during a time of financial stress found that the rational choice model was applied to decision making. There was a systematic relationship between objective, evaluative data and policy decisions. (MLW)

Descriptors: Budgeting, Decision Making, Higher Education, Information Utilization, Models, Organizational Theories, Resource Allocation, Retrenchment

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Language: English

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