Decision Making: Social and Creative Dimensions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Social and Creative Decision Making

      • Carl Martin Allwood, Marcus Selart

      Pages 3-11

3. Basic and General Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Nature of Creative Decision Making

      • Katya G. Stoycheva, Todd I. Lubart

      Pages 15-33

   3. Task Creativity and Social Creativity in Decision-Making Groups

      • Henk Wilke, Marty Kaplan

      Pages 35-51

   4. The Economic, Social, and Psychological Outcomes of Implementing a Deliberate Process of Organizational Creativity

      • Min Basadur

      Pages 53-88

   5. Decision Making in the Context of Environmental Risks

      • Hans-Rüdiger Pfister, Gisela Böhm

      Pages 89-111

4. Applied Areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Personal Life

      1. The Creation of a Realizable Option in the Face of Marital Distress: Application of a Perspective Model for Decision Making on Divorce

         • Helena Willén

         Pages 117-135

      2. Constructive Psychological Processes Before and after a Real-Life Decision

         • Ilkka Salo, Ola Svenson

         Pages 137-151

      3. Contingent Decision Making in the Social World: The “Mental Ruler” Model

         • Kazuhisa Takemura

         Pages 153-173

   3. Management and Work Organization

      1. Creativity and Complex Problem Solving in the Social Context

         • Petra Badke-Schaub, Cornelius Buerschaper

         Pages 177-196

      2. On Practitioners’ Usage of Creativity Heuristics in the Decision Process

         • Marcus Selart, Ole Boe

         Pages 197-210

      3. Managerial Behavior and Decision Making; Personal and Situational Factors

         • Claartje J. Vinkenburg, Paul L. Koopman, Paul G. W. Jansen

         Pages 211-238

      4. Discipline and Creative Work — Designing Next Year’s Car Model

         • Sten Jönsson, Anders Edström, Urban Ask

         Pages 239-257

      5. Managers’ Strategic Decision Processes in Large Organizations

         • Lisbeth Hedelin, Carl Martin Allwood

         Pages 259-280

      6. Making Expansive Decisions: An Activity-Theoretical Study of Practitioners Building Collaborative Medical Care for Children

         • Yrjö Engeström

         Pages 281-301

5. Back Matter

   Pages 303-320

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Decision making is a complex phenomenon which normally is deeply integrated into social life. At the same time the decision making process often gives the decision maker an opportunity for conscious planning and for taking a reflective stance with respect to the action considered. This suggests that decision making allows creative solutions with a potential to change the course of events both on an individual and a collective level. Given these considerations, we argue that in order to more fully understand decision making the perspectives of different disciplines are needed. In this volume we have attempted to draw together contributions that would provide a broad view of decision making. Much work has been carried out in the writing and editing of this volume. First of all we would like to thank the contributors for their efforts in producing interesting and important texts and for their patience in the editorial process. Each chapter was edited by two or three reviewers. These reviewers are listed on a separate page in this book. Our heartfelt thanks go to them for their time and for their incisive and constructive reviews! We are also grateful to the publishing editors at Kluwer Academic Publishers, Christiane Roll and Dorien Francissen, who have been generous with their encouragement and patience throughout the editorial process.

• Problem Solving
• creativity
• management
• organization
• psychology

• Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  Carl Martin Allwood

• Unit for Advanced Studies in Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden

  Marcus Selart

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