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`Philippe Baumard has observed that strategic success seems to lie more in top managers' ability to use tacit knowledge than in their gaining or updating explicit knowledge' - William H Starbuck, New York University `This important new book effectively illustrates how, in conditions of ambiguity, managers `over-manage', i.e. rely too much on explicit plans and interpretations. Here, Philippe Baumard develops an alternative analysis and with it a new approach to management' - Frank Blackler, Lancaster University This landmark book delves below the surface of organizations in order to understand the complex processes of top managers' decision making. Philippe
Tormented Knowledge
Tormented Knowledge
Knowing is almost the opposite of existing.
We have no other possibility than the impossible.
‘It's beyond My Control’
Behaviour in the Face of the Unpredictable
The life of an organization is permeated with unforeseen events that ruffle the equanimity of its decision-makers. We have only to be confronted with an event not familiar to us to feel nonplussed, at a ...
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