Decision theory: interaction process or organizations as decision systems

Authors

  • Josep Vidal, Dr. Universidade Federal do Pará

Abstract

We present a theoretical discussion of the sociological contribution concerning decisions in organizations.Two theories stand. The first, based on the decision process from a critical theory of the traditional linear multirational by Lucien Sfez, argues that the decision is a process of interactions and treats it as an institutional process based on the freedom of the subject. The second theory based on self-referentialsystems by Niklas Luhmann, interprets organizations as systems-making, and understands the concept of decision as purely epistemological specificity, abstracted from the decision of all the elements and organizational variables associated with it.

Keywords:

decision, organizations, self-referential, systems, multi rationality