The decision in the academy I

• Autor(a) principal: Leitão, Sérgio Proença
• Data de Publicação: 1993
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/8701
• topic: Bureaucratic model; political model; rational model; model of organized anarchy.; Modelo burocrático; modelo político; modelo racional; modelo de anarquía organizada.; Modelo burocrático; modelo político; modelo racional; modelo da anarquia organizada.

The subject is the abridgement of a thesis for Doctorship, involving the process of decision-making in the Brazilian university, a work that was published in two articles. The thesis develops a qualitative method, in order to obtain a comprehensive view of the decision-making process and to explain the process itself, arriving at the conclusion that the organizational decision may be understood as a network of connections among the many factors which influence it, in the outcome expressing different reasonings, as well as an absence of reason. The first article deals with the problem under examination and with a review of the respective literature.