Graham K. Kenny, Richard J. Butler and David J. Hickson, David Cray and Geoffrey R. Mallory and David C. Wilson (1987), ‘Strategic Decision Making: Influence Patterns in Public and Private Sector Organizations’, Human Relations, 40, pp. 613-31

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Graham K. Kenny, Richard J. Butler and David J. Hickson, David Cray and Geoffrey R. Mallory and David C. Wilson (1987), ‘Strategic Decision Making: Influence Patterns in Public and Private Sector Organizations’, Human Relations, 40, pp. 613-31

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ABSTRACT

Previous empirical studies of influence patterns in organizations have focused upon those units that are internal to an organization (Hinings, Hickson, Pennings, & Schneck, 1974; Salancik «Sc Pfeffer, 1974; Hambrick, 1981) and have not investigated the relative impact of internal vs. external units upon organizational decision making. Further, with the exception o f Hambrick

'This research was undertaken when all the authors were at the Organizational Analysis Research Unit, Management Centre, University of Bradford, England.