Article
Phronesis, intuition, and deliberation in managerial decision-making: results of a global survey
management revue - Socio-Economc Studies
(2024)
Abstract
There are several well-established concepts explaining decision-making. The sociology of wise practice suggests that thinking preferences like the use of intuition form a cornerstone of administrators’ virtuous practice and phronesis is a likely candidate to explain this behaviour. This contribution uses conceptual and theoretical resources from the behavioural sciences, management science as well as philosophy to account for individual level differences of employees regarding thinking preferences in administrative professions. The analysis empirically investigates the behavioural dimension of the preference for intuition vs the preference for deliberation to cast light on three different intuitive markers present among individuals who also prefer to use deliberation. We explore possible explanations for the differences and similarities of our global sample of 2227 workplace respondents who conceptually represent phronetic practitioners. The results show that many phronetic practitioners prefer the intuitive marker of unconscious thought, besides using deliberation.
Keywords
- intuition,
- deliberation,
- decision style,
- virtue,
- wisdom,
- phronesis,
- Aristotle,
- emotion
Disciplines
Publication Date
2024
Citation Information
Attila Tanyi, Frithiof Svenson, Fatih Cetin and Marcus A Launer. "Phronesis, intuition, and deliberation in managerial decision-making: results of a global survey" management revue - Socio-Economc Studies (2024) ISSN: 0935-9915 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/attila_tanyi/46/