Dear Colleagues,

Managerial and organisational decision making has long been a subject of interest to both scholars and practitioners given its potential impact within and beyond organisational settings.

In organisational studies, it is usually assumed that decision makers are aware of, and understand, their organisations and their environments. However, decisions often need to be made when the environment is changing, where information is limited, ambiguous or unreliable, when there is time constraint, and in collaboration with other decision makers. Against the backdrop of these complexities, managers encounter crucial decisions every day. In light of Herbert Simon’s (1947) concept of ‘bounded rationality’, a reasonable question to ask is to what extent are decision makers ‘rational’? Insofar as decision making is concerned with thinking and reasoning, both individually and collectively, what factors help or hinder successful decision making processes?

This Special Issue of Administrative Sciences offers the opportunity to engage in these conversations, showcasing research that contributes to our understanding of decision making both in theory and practice. Within this framework, authors are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration to be published in this Special Issue addressing the following and other relevant topics:

• Processes of decision making to improve organisational outcomes
• Management teams and collective decision making
• Intuitive versus data-based decision making
• Decisions under risk or uncertainty
• Complex dynamics and interactions involving decision making
• Alternative concepts, theories and methods that reflect specific decision contexts

I would like to invite submissions of theoretical and empirical papers that make a clear contribution to the field of decision making. The authors are encouraged to focus and elaborate on well-developed ideas or issues that will provide new insights and advance our understanding of decision making in organisational contexts.

Cinla Akinci
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Administrative Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Reference

• Simon, H. A. (1947/1997) Administrative Behavior (4th edition). New York: Free Press.

• Decision processes
• Decision makers
• Bounded rationality
• Cognition
• Intuition
• Expertise
• Risk and uncertainty
• Group decision making
• Managerial decision making