Where do brilliant executive wisdom and actions come from? Making Tough Decisions Well and Badly (MTDWB) assesses the literature that examines executives' conscious and non-conscious actions in decision making, implementation and assessment of outcomes. MTDWB includes anecdotal histories of good and bad decisions and the executives who made them. This volume uncovers the common threads in framing, forecasting, decision making and actions, looking at Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, Jr, Senator Wayne Morris, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Sam Walton, Mahatma Gandhi, and Bill Gates. Authors...
Where do brilliant executive wisdom and actions come from? Making Tough Decisions Well and Badly (MTDWB) assesses the literature that examines executi...
Arch G. Woodside (Curtin University, Australia), Arch G. Woodside (Curtin University, Australia)
Volume 25 discusses strategies to avoid the conventional, and still dominant logic of using symmetric thinking and multiple regression analysis and to make use of asymmetric thinking, complexity theory tenets, and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to achieve more useful forecasts of what is possible and likely to happen. Asymmetric modelling formally recognizes that the configurations of causes of undesirable outcomes are not the mirror opposites of the configurations of causes of desirable outcomes. QCA tools enable researchers and decision-makers to move away from thinking of relative...
Volume 25 discusses strategies to avoid the conventional, and still dominant logic of using symmetric thinking and multiple regression analysis and to...
To clarify their own thinking, gain confirmation, and plan, customers tell stories about their interactions with sales and service associates. These stories are told often via blog sites, social-media platforms (e.g. TripAdvisor) as well as informally to friends and family members. Read original first-person stories of problems, opportunities and outcomes with a multiple-choice exercise following each story, as well as a critical review by an independent researcher. This volume describes customers' reports of their experience of interactions with sales/service associates. Chapters also offer...
To clarify their own thinking, gain confirmation, and plan, customers tell stories about their interactions with sales and service associates. These s...
Alain Decrop (University of Namur, Belgium), Arch G. Woodside (Curtin University, Australia), Arch G. Woodside (Curtin U
The chapters in this volume provide tools and evidence useful for deep understanding of tourists' buying, consumption, and being through examinations of consumers' self-descriptions of personal markers of their trip configurations.
The chapters in this volume provide tools and evidence useful for deep understanding of tourists' buying, consumption, and being through examinations ...
