Making Sense of the Complexity of Managerial Flow

The idea of managerial flow incorporates the managerial assets and actions involved in the policy implementation process to highlight the importance of more complex matters of strategy, governance, selection, coordination, and communication (Vecchi and Brusoni, 2012). Part of the value of articulating the decision-making process in this more nuanced way is that it challenges overly rationalist assumptions that the policy decision making process occurs in a linear and sequential way and that decision-making process is rooted in mathematical logic— that is, that a + b = c (all of which leads to an expectation of reaching a singular outcome on grounds that “rational choice drives self-interest”; Stone, 2002).