The speed trap: Exploring the relationship between decision making and temporal context

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Perlow, LA; Okhuysen, GA; Repenning, NP
• 署名单位: Harvard University; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069323
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 931-955
• 关键词: TIME-PRESSURE; dialectical inquiry; devils advocacy; BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY; COMMITMENT; consensus; CONFLICT; DYNAMICS; strategy

摘要

Despite a growing sense that speed is critical to organizational success, how an emphasis on speed affects organizational processes remains unclear. We explored the connection between speed and decision making in a 19-month ethnographic study of an Internet start-up. Distilling our data using causal loop diagrams, we identified a potential pathology for organizations attempting to make fast decisions the speed, trap. A need for fast action, traditionally conceptualized, as an exogenous feature of the surrounding context, can also be a product of an organization's own past emphasis. on speed. We explore the implications for research on-decision making and temporary pacing.