ABSTRACT
How does selection take place in organizations? This was the general question that a research project I started in 1997 attempted to answer (Bolander 2002). In reviewing previous research, I had found that considerable effort had been put into producing knowledge, in the form of prescriptive models, about how selection should be accomplished. However, there was a dearth of in-depth studies of how selection actually does take place. To conduct such a study, with a particular focus on internal decision-making in selection, therefore became the aim of my research.
