Non-rational or irrational decision-making in organizations has fascinated Nobel prizewinners for decades, from Herbert Simon’s theory of bounded rationality to Daniel Kahneman’s discovery that when we process information, our brains interchange between two different systems: deliberative processing and intuition, our default position in daily life. But Cass professors André Spicer and Mats Alvesson believe these works miss a set of deviations from smartness, which are neither semi-rational nor purely stupid. Functional stupidity in organizations, they reckon, is demonstrated by the absence of three processes: reflexivity, justification and substantive reasoning.
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Authors: André Spicer, Mats Alvesson
Source: Cass Business School
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Authors: André Spicer, Mats Alvesson
Source: Cass Business School
Subject: Organizational Behavior
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