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Deciding How to Decide: An Evaluation of Cultural Typologies on the Decision Making Structure of Watershed Organizations

Horndeski, Kimberly A
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420493507

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2015, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Environment and Natural Resources.
Population growth coupled with the limited availability and difficulty in accessing water has led policy makers worldwide to focus on developing and supporting volunteer based watershed management organizations. These organizations provide a wide range of necessary functions such as monitoring and reporting violations, hands-on volunteers to assist in clean-ups and promote public awareness, and raising funds to purchase supporting infrastructures. They are especially important when local governments are unable to provide the needed means due to political and/or financial reasons. The structure and decision making process of an organization arguably affects the outcomes of that organization (Koontz et al. 2004); therefore, how an organization determines what types of rules used for decision making to administer becomes imperative for the functionality of the organization. Much literature focuses on the effects of particular decision types, but there is a limited understanding of the factors that influence how an organization chooses to structure its decision making rule process and thus form a structure and produce outcomes. This study examines the links between how individuals within an organization perceive the world and how that organization structures rules to make decisions.
Tomas Koontz (Advisor)
Jeremy Bruskotter (Committee Member)
Kristi Lekies (Committee Member)
257 p.
Environmental Management; Water Resource Management

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  • Horndeski, K. A. (2015). Deciding How to Decide: An Evaluation of Cultural Typologies on the Decision Making Structure of Watershed Organizations [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420493507

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Horndeski, Kimberly. Deciding How to Decide: An Evaluation of Cultural Typologies on the Decision Making Structure of Watershed Organizations. 2015. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420493507.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Horndeski, Kimberly. "Deciding How to Decide: An Evaluation of Cultural Typologies on the Decision Making Structure of Watershed Organizations." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420493507

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