David Cray, Geoffrey R. Mallory, Richard J. Butler, David J. Hickson and David C. Wilson (1988), ‘Sporadic, Fluid and Constricted Processes: Three Types of Strategic Decision Making in Organizations’, Journal of Management Studies, 25, pp. 13-39

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David Cray, Geoffrey R. Mallory, Richard J. Butler, David J. Hickson and David C. Wilson (1988), ‘Sporadic, Fluid and Constricted Processes: Three Types of Strategic Decision Making in Organizations’, Journal of Management Studies, 25, pp. 13-39

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ABSTRACT

Using 136 cases of strategic decision-making described by a number of variables drawn from the literature, three distinct types of decision-making processes are found. These are termed sporadic, fluid and constricted processes. They are parsimonious characterizations of decision-making processes which, given the variety of the 30 organizations from which the cases are drawn, should be generalizable to a wide range of contexts.