DECISION-MAKING IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS SOCIAL-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS: A PROPOSED RESEARCH MODEL

2012 Issues in Information Systems  
The paper presents a research model for understanding decision-making assumed to being done within decisionmaking situations contextualized within a multi-layered social-cultural environment. The layers include a national social-cultural environment, an organizational matrix, a professional worldview, and a familial environment influencing behavior, and for this essay, decision-making. These social-cultural matrices have various dimensions such as, power distance and uncertainty avoidance. The
more » ... arious levels consist of multiple communities of discourse and practice, that is, social group or networks with attending meaning-systems, vocabularies, and practices. These communities influence communicative and decision-making styles. People exhibit these styles within decisionmaking situations which, in this paper, are located within organizations, or companies.
doi:10.48009/2_iis_2012_320-327 fatcat:2kchbxgjkjhdrjwfmxrlbgtug4