[Xmca-l] Re: decision-making

[Andy Blunden]

    Resources and Resourcefulness: Leadership, Strategy and Organization
    in the Unionization of California Agriculture
    <http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3003887?uid=3739952&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101123174741>


      BY MARSHALL GANZ

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 4, pp. 1003-1062 
<http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3003887?uid=3739952&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101123174741>, 
2000
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*Andy Blunden*
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C Barker wrote:
> It's not strictly 'psychological', but I think you would enjoy a piece by Marshall Ganz in American Journal of Sociology year 2000 (sorry, I don't have the precise reference to hand) - on decision-making in the Farmworkers Union in California. It includes a brilliant description of a surprising decision being made.
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> Colin Barker
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> Subject: [Xmca-l]  decision-making
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> Does anyone know of any detailed psychological studies of how an
> informal group of people (preferably adults and certainly people who
> knew each other), make a collective decision. I have heard of studies of
> how juries work, which is interesting, but I would prefer something less
> 'artificial' and formal, perhaps in a work situation. I have read stuff
> about collective cognition (e.g. scientists) but I mean more ordinary
> decisions of daily life, not science.
>
> Any recommendations?
> Andy
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