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Synopsis
This volume addresses how organizations use information to make critical decisions under stress, offering coverage of organizational performance in the Vincennes incident; a review of the literature on the subject; a formal computational model, DYCORP, which simulates organizational behaviors; computational analysis of 69 cases of organizations under crisis; detailed analysis of two crisis cases; and a description of some of the implications, limitations, and future directions for this line of research. Three appendices provide the detailed coding scheme for the 69 real organizational cases; tables of data used for compiling various figures; and further descriptions of running DYCORP. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR