The Politics of Organizational Decision-Making

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1973 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> Figures and Tables, Acknowledgements, Preface, 1 Conceptual Orientations, 2 Decision-making as a Political Process, 3 The Setting: Overview of Events 1955-68, 4 The Research Process, 5 Specialization as an Emergent Process: Phase One, 6 Specialization as an Emergent Process: Phase Two, 7 Strategies of Power Acquisition and Maintenance 1957-66, 8 The Disparity of Demands in an Innovative Decision Process, 9 The Sources and Use of Power in an Innovative Decision Process, 10 Conclusion, References, Author Index, Subject Index