Research Summary
Research Summary
Strategic Decision-Making Processes
Description
Michael Roberto is studying the processes that managers employ to make critical strategic decisions. Through extensive field research, he has examined how groups of senior managers make these decisions efficiently, and simultaneously build the consensus required to implement effectively. His research describes how the more effective groups made ill-structured decisions more manageable and tractable. In particular, he documents how these groups evaluated alternatives and considered contingencies. In addition, the research describes how effective groups managed conflict and politics, and ultimately achieved closure.