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How Can the Capacity to Decide Be Improved as the Nature of Work and Institutions Change?

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Trans-institutional decisions are often slow, inefficient, and ill-informed. The Gartner Group (Gartner 2011) identified the “top 10 strategic technologies for 2011”, which included social analytics, context-aware computing, and ubiquitous computing. Human decision-making is already dealing with these IT trends. Especially during the last 3 years of the 2008 financial crisis, decision-making by computer systems gained a foothold in financial markets.

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Maschler, M., Tavakoli, A. (2015). How Can the Capacity to Decide Be Improved as the Nature of Work and Institutions Change?. In: Grand Societal Challenges in Information Systems Research and Education. SpringerBriefs in Information Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15027-7_5

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