Strategic and Managerial Decision Making for Enterprise Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 February 2021) | Viewed by 7294
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The most recent US Business Roundtable has, again, put corporate sustainability over the long term at the center of the debate about enterprises’ strategic decision-making. This, in turn, also affects the way in which managerial decision-making processes should be run. In fact, especially in our complex and hypercompetitive macroeconomic scenario, no enterprise should feel invincible per se. Yet, some periods of continuous competitive success can eventually give life to self-reinforcing mechanisms of conviction in the minds of firms’ top decision makers; these mechanisms can become so strong as to make feedback and environmental stimuli unheard. That is the moment in which, unfortunately, decision makers also suffer the risk of ruining all that (potentially good) they have attempted, with difficulty, to build over time.
Hence, standing on the shoulders of both the seminal and more recent approaches to behavioral decision-making, this Special Issue aims to address the following research questions: How are decisions in enterprises currently taken? How could they be taken towards promoting more sustainable values?
In particular, this Special Issue aims to present a selection of theoretical, review, and empirical (qualitative or quantitative) papers covering the breadth of strategic and managerial decision-making for the sustainability and survival of enterprises over the long-term. Experimental research methods are also welcome. Thus, topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Bounded rationality, heuristics, and traps in enterprise decision-making;
- Traditional and forefront problem-solving techniques;
- Emotions, creativity, and intuition to enhance the quality of decisions;
- Intra and interfirm negotiations for sustainable decision-making;
- Sustainable decision-making in the workplace;
- Self-reinforcing decisional processes;
- Decision-making and business ethics;
- (Big) data-driven decision-making, artificial intelligence, and sustainable business models;
- Decision-making and behavioral strategy.
The papers submitted to this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure.
Prof. Gianpaolo Abatecola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- enterprise
- decision-making
- bounded rationality
- problem solving
- negotiations
- creativity
- behavioral strategy
