THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN MULTIORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKING

Authors
HOWARD N
Citation
N. Howard, THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN MULTIORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKING, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 44(6), 1993, pp. 613-623
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Management,"Operatione Research & Management Science","Operatione Research & Management Science
Journal title
The Journal of the Operational Research Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
01605682
Volume
44
Issue
6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
613 - 623
Database
ISI
SICI code
0160-5682(1993)44:6<613:TROEIM>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
This paper addresses two questions. (i) What is the role of emotions i n decision-making? (ii) Can emotions be attributed to organizations, a nd is their role in decisions made between organizations the same as i n decisions made between individual people? The answers given to quest ion (ii) are yes and yes. The proposed answer to question (i) is based upon a game-theoretic approach, which considers how emotions may be o f strategic benefit to game players.