DO EARLY PERCEPTIONS OF STRATEGIC DECISIONS INFLUENCE STRATEGIC PROCESSES?: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION.

This paper investigates the impact of perceived decision-specific characteristics on the processes followed in making Strategic Decisions (SDs). It empirically derives generic decision-specific characteristics (e.g. magnitude of impact, crisis, pressure, familiarity, emergence) and decision-process dimensions (e.g. comprehensiveness, politicization. decentralization). Results support that SDs with different characteristics are handled through different processes.