Le decisioni manageriali e la rivoluzione comportamentale

Obiettivo del paper: Il paper descrive come economia sperimentale e psicologia cognitiva abbiano influenzato lo sviluppo degli studi comportamentali sulle decisioni allinterno delle discipline manageriali; critica lapproccio comportamentale largamente dominante negli studi di management; propone di recuperare lereditdella c.d. scuola di Carnegie come elemento fondativo di una piena rivoluzione comportamentale nello studio delle decisioni manageriali.

Metodologia: Il lavoro adotta una prospettiva comparativa e interdisciplinare per discutere lapplicazione dellapproccio comportamentale allo studio delle decisioni nelle discipline e nella pratica manageriale.

Risultati: Per un pieno compimento della rivoluzione comportamentale negli studi di management, il paper indica la necessitdi integrare lapproccio basato sulla correzione del bias decisionale utilizzando le evidenze comportamentali in chiave evolutiva, ecologica e costruttivista.

Limiti della ricerca: Il presente lavoro non affronta tutta la letteratura sul processo decisionale manageriale, ma si limita al confronto fra recenti studi sperimentali e lapproccio comportamentale della Scuola di Carnegie, per evidenziare carenze e potenzialitper lo studio teorico e applicato delle decisioni manageriali.

Implicazioni pratiche: Il paper suggerisce come una considerazione picompleta degli aspetti comportamentali implichi la ridefinizione di molte pratiche decisionali del management.

Originalitdel paper: Il lavoro delinea alcune linee guida per lo sviluppo di un programma di ricerca comportamentale di carattere originale per le discipline manageriali. Esso integra luso di procedure correttive per i modelli razionali di scelta, per tenere conto di apprendimento, selezione, aspetti ecologici allinterno dei comportamenti decisionali, e del rapporto tra modelli decisionali adottati e la natura contingente dei problemi di scelta incontrati dai decisori.

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