Symbolic Information Use in Organizations: An Information   Processing Perspective on Group Decision Making
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Information to support decision making can be used substantively                to facilitate the choice process.  It can also be used                          symbolically to justify choices already made.  The majority of                  prior research has focused on the use of information to reach a                 decision and has rarely considered the inherently political                     nature of decision-making where managers approach a situation                   with clear preferences, and subsequently acquire and use                        information to support these preferences.  This pilot study will                investigate how the symbolic use of information in a large face-                to-face group is related to the decision context through the                    analysis of floor statements from the Congressional Record.                                                                                                     The research has the potential to contribute to theory by                       augmenting existing knowledge of organizational decision making                 processes.  The pilot study will test and validate the research                 design which addresses some of the limitations of prior cross-                  sectional research on organizational information processing and                 which has been criticized for focusing on individual decision                   makers in isolation from their environment.
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{'Code': '132100', 'Text': 'Decision, Risk & Mgmt Sci'}
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