Action in Uncertainty Expertise, Decision and Crisis Management

What choices, strategies or methods need to be implemented so that action is as effective as possible in terms of the objectives to be achieved? We should not delude ourselves about the term "good decision", which does not have much meaning when we act in an uncertain environment and when...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pomerol, Jean-Charles (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated 2023.
Series:Information systems, web and pervasive computing series.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811332206719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Born to Act
  • 1.1. It's hard not to act
  • 1.2. What is the result of the action taken?
  • 1.3. To act or not to act
  • 1.4. Synopsis
  • Chapter 2. Two Kinds of Actions: Immediate or with Reasoning
  • 2.1. To depend on us or to not depend on us
  • 2.2. Action triggered by recognition
  • 2.3. Human decision-making
  • 2.4. Reasoning before action
  • 2.5. Between recognition and reasoning, learning
  • 2.6. Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. Anticipation and Planning
  • 3.1. A more desirable state of the world
  • 3.2. Anticipations
  • 3.3. Individual planning
  • 3.4. Organizational planning
  • 3.5. Conclusion
  • Chapter 4. Act Anyway!
  • 4.1. Rationality of the action
  • 4.2. Dying of hunger or dying of thirst?
  • 4.3. Individual obstacles
  • 4.4. Organizational barriers to change and action
  • 4.5. Speed of action, heuristics and probabilities
  • 4.6. Conclusion
  • Chapter 5. The Conduct of Action and Leadership
  • 5.1. On the implementation of decisions
  • 5.2. Teaming up
  • 5.3. The leader and leadership
  • 5.4. Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Intuition, Expertise and Decision-making
  • 6.1. Intuition and "natural decision-making"
  • 6.2. Expertise, experts and decision-making
  • 6.3. Expertise, environment and uncertainty
  • 6.4. Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Index of Proper Names
  • Index of Terms
  • EULA.