Strategic Rationality is not Enough: Hitler and the Concept of Crazy States

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Jablonsky
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Rationality

‘Decolonising’ the clinical encounter via multi-criteria decision support (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Dowie ◽  
Mette Kjer Kaltoft
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Clinical Encounter ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Decision Support Framework ◽  
Strategic Rationality

UNSTRUCTURED According to researchers drawing on the ideas of Jürgen Habermas, Canadian patients and Danish General Practitioners are experiencing ‘colonisation’ of their ‘lifeworlds’ by ‘the system’, Their suggested remedy is to ensure that the clinical encounter, freed of strategic rationality, re-prioritises Habermasian ‘communicative action’ aimed at mutual understanding. However, Blau shows that such communicative action is, and should be, inextricably interwoven into means-end rationality, when Habermas’ caricature of the latter is rejected. We argue that the decision support framework provided by Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis can help produce the ‘communicative means-end rationality’ essential in a public health service based on role-respecting sincerity and autonomy. No ‘positivistic reduction’ is involved in the technique.

Strategic Network Formation, Games on Networks, and Trust

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Raub ◽  
Vincenz Frey ◽  
Vincent Buskens
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Simple Model ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Network Formation ◽  
Simultaneous Analysis ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Network Formation Games ◽  
Strategic Rationality

AbstractThis paper brings two major research lines in current sociology together. Research on social networks has long focused primarily on network effects but meanwhile also addresses the emergence and dynamics of networks. Research on trust in social and economic relations shows that networks have effects on trust. Using game theory, we provide a simple model that allows for an integrated and simultaneous analysis of network effects on trust and for the endogenous emergence of the network. The model also allows for characterizing the value of the network. We use standard assumptions on full strategic rationality. Testable implications of the model as well as model extensions are sketched.

Risk Taxonomy and Strategic Rationality in Enterprise Decision-Making Process

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa dall'Acqua
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Baseline Risk ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Business Risk ◽  
Risk Taxonomy ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Social Components ◽  
Strategic Rationality

Over the last decade, risk management has become increasingly important both in financial and non-financial businesses. This is due to the increase in uncertainty caused by a number of internal and external factors. Genesis of business risk can be related to the divergence between external factors and components of organizational and operational structures of companies. In this chapter, a baseline risk taxonomy was proposed, and the cognitive, regulatory, and social components of risk inherent in a decision-making process were analyzed. A synthesis model was then elaborated, which exposes the relationships between decision-maker, decision-making, and environment for risk management, including through decision-making information technology.

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