[Xmca-l] Re: decision-making

[Andy Blunden]

It's OK, I downloaded it from 
http://leadingchangenetwork.com/files/2012/05/Resources-and-Resourcefulness.-Strategic-Capacity-in-the-Unionization-of-California-Agriculture-1959-1966.pdf

:)
Andy
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Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
> http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3003887?uid=3739616&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103598292451
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> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Donna Kotsopoulos
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 6:51 AM
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> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: decision-making
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> I think this is the article that Colin referred to:
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> Ganz, M. (2000). Resources and Resourcefulness: Strategic Capacity in the Unionization of California Agriculture, 1959-1966. American Journal of Sociology,  105(4), 1003-1062.
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> I don't have a copy but I did have the reference!
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>>>> On 4/3/2014 at 6:01 AM, in message <43D64DEFED150742AAEBE9D668275880DD4D17B9@exmb2>, C Barker <C.Barker@mmu.ac.uk> wrote:
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> 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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> 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.
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> Any recommendations?
> Andy
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