Between Economic-Technical and Socio-Political Rationality: Multilevel Decision Making in a Multinational Organisation

Autor:	P.L. Koopman
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Flexibility (engineering) Process (engineering) business.industry Distribution (economics) Rationality Power (social and political) Multinational corporation Law Political rationality Product (category theory) Economic system business Psychology General Psychology
Zdroj:	The Irish Journal of Psychology. 13:32-50
ISSN:	2158-0812 0303-3910
DOI:	10.1080/03033910.1978.10557864
Popis:	This paper describes an international reallocation in a multinational organisation. The process is characterized by multilevel decision making: the first takes place at concern level, the second part at plant level. A main observation is that the socio-political rationality (the criterion ‘fair share of misery’) determines the limits of the economic-technical rationality. As a consequence of the distribution of responsibilities between the two pivotal axes in the matrix organisation (product divisions and national organisations) the power play between the involved parties becomes dominant. After an agreement among national organisations there is almost no flexibility left for changes in the plans (for instance, on the basis of new facts at plant level). The paper discusses the question of how this process relates to the existing literature on complex decision making in organisations.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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