Mingling Decision Making Metaphors
探讨组织决策中不同理论隐喻的冲突与融合，通过资本预算案例说明实践者如何调和分歧并转向象征性行动，对决策理论及组织科学有启示。
Organizational decisions provide conceptual playing fields wherein scientists adhering to rival theories based on different metaphors skirmish in-decisively. Organizational decisions, however, are also empirical arenas wherein practitioners espousing discordant theories-in-use reconcile their differences pragmatically. Practitioners' decision-making metaphors encountered while studying capital budgeting suggest how disjoint perspectives are assimilated and shifts from instrumental to symbolic actions are triggered. Implications for decision theories are discussed, and potential benefits of incorporating practitioners' knowledge into organizational science are considered.