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What is Mechanistic Decision Making

Chapter 49
Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies
Refers to Winter’s (1985) notion that organizations are actually quicker when they do not spent too much time reinventing the wheel. In mechanistic decision making, the reliance on well charted routines and procedures can allow for a rapid reaction to known situations as well as to situations that are nearly like known situations.
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How Groupware Systems Can Change How an Organisation Makes Decisions: A Case Study in the Publishing Industry
Frédéric Adam (University College Cork, Ireland), Jean-Charles Pomerol (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France), and Patrick Brézillon (University Paris 6, France, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-843-7.ch049
Abstract
In this article, a newspaper company which has implemented a computerised editorial system is studied in an attempt to understand the impact that groupware systems can have on the decision making processes of an organisation. First, the case study protocol is presented, and the findings of the case are described in detail. Conclusions are then presented which pertain both to this case and to the implementation of decision support systems that have a groupware dimension.
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