... through a theoretical decision‐making framework, and by separately examining the decision of young and old individuals with respect to religious participation. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses religiosity through a cost‐benefit framework, where decisions at each point in time depend...

.... It discusses Searle's “background” and its role in the explanation of intentional phenomena. It analyses the implications of the background for the notion of rule‐following and illustrates the role the background plays in decision making by examining conversation‐analytical studies of decisions involving...

.... elections) (Parker, 1996 , p. 136) [3] . © MCB UP Limited 2003 Employment Government Decision making Lobbying Rational choice theorists have provided key insights into the decision‐making process within legislative bodies. Many have focused their attention to behaviors on the part...

.... © MCB UP Limited 2002 Risk management Farming Decision making Bangladesh Uncertainty is a pervasive phenomenon in agricultural production. Farmers face various resource, price and yield risk, which makes their production and incomes volatile from season to season and from one...

... wages. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Public administration Policy management Decision making Social responsibility Policies are designed and implemented for specific purposes, but they are always made in the context of human societies, and against the constraints of human nature...

... of the guard‐rail approach for decision‐makers depends on the extent to which it is possible to limit the choice set. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Cost/benefit analysis Decision making Environment Environmental management strategy Values Carbon dioxide absorbs radiation in a wavelength range...

...Lei Ming Introduces incentive strategy as a market‐oriented and highly efficient macro‐economy management system (MEMS). By means of the hierarchical decision‐making theory and the stochastic optimization theory, two static models with perfect information structure and partial information structure...

...Luca Tacconi Shows the importance of heeding Clem Tisdell’s call to devote attention to values and to consider further the limitations of unbounded rationality models in economic research. Outlines the implications of a criticism of choice theory for environmental decision‐making. The critics...

...Louis Haddad Discusses the concept of a well‐functioning economy and attempts to define its principal properties. Examines some aspects of rules of decision making that are essential for the generation of optimal decisions. Brings together the selected properties of a well‐functioning economy...

... decision‐making processes in one of the major electronics multinationals in order to obtain more insight into the complex interaction between economic and technological changes. But, as stated, such a philosophy did in fact exist and there was a relationship between its evolution and developments in work...

.... Varian, H. (1978), Microeconomic Analysis, Norton & Co., New York, NY. The Samaritan's Dilemma 63 © MCB UP Limited 1993 Decision making Ethics Islam Social economics ...

...Masudul Alam Choudhury Discusses social choice formation in the Islamic institutional framework. This involves the technical formalization of the institutions of consultative decision making and knowledge formation in these institutions: processes which are respectively called the Shuraand...

... alternatives delegating decision making in the sphere of economics to groups and formations outside parliament, or establishing a socially reponsible free market economy. The transition process probably would go through the phases:from plan to anarchy to group control to legally constrained market control. ©...

...Roman A. Ohrenstein; Barry Gordon In any environment which allows for individual and group enterprise, some degree of risk as well as elements of uncertainty and expectation will be features of virtually every human endeavour. These three decision‐making categories are especially relevant where...