Collective intuition : implications for improved decision making and organizational learning
Date
12/07/2019Metadata
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This article establishes the foundation for research on collective intuition through a study of decision making and organizational learning processes in police senior management teams. We conceptualize collective intuition as independently formed judgement based on domain-specific knowledge, experience and cognitive ability, shared and interpreted collectively. We contribute to intuition research, which has tended to focus its attention at the individual level, by studying intuition collectively in team settings. From a dual-process perspective, we investigate how expert intuition and deliberation affect decision making and learning at various levels of the organization. Furthermore, we contribute to organizational learning research by offering an empirically derived elaboration of the foundational 4I framework, identifying additional ‘feed-forward’ and ‘feedback’ loop processes, and thereby providing a more complete account of this organizational learning model. Bridging a variety of relevant but previously unconnected literatures via our focal concept of collective intuition, our research provides a foundation for future studies of this vitally important but under-researched organizational phenomenon. We offer theoretical and practical implications whereby expert intuitions can be developed and leveraged collectively as valuable sources of organizational knowledge and learning, and contribute to improved decision making in organizations.
Citation
Akinci , C & Sadler-Smith , E 2019 , ' Collective intuition : implications for improved decision making and organizational learning ' , British Journal of Management , vol. 30 , no. 3 , pp. 558-577 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12269
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British Journal of Management
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1045-3172Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2018, British Academy of Management This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12269
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