A Strategy for Decision: A Review.
Expert InsightsPublished 1964
A discussion of [A Strategy for Decision:] [Policy Evaluation as a Social Process], by D. Braybrooke and C. E. Lindblom. Commending the study for illuminating the rationale of decisionmaking as it occurs in the real world, the paper outlines its major features and discusses its merits and limitations. The author considers it to be a valuable though distinctively limited contribution to the theory of organization, the analysis of bureaucratic rationality, and the strategy of decisionmaking, serving particularly to challenge the propensity to equate rationality with overall planning or internal consistency or coordination. 10 pp.
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- Year: 1964
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