A Life Cycle Analysis of Decision Making For a Strategic Management Team

Abstract

This study intensively analyzed the life cycle of a team consisting of graduate students playing a management simulation. The data gathering was undertaken by audiotape of ten of the team’s meetings, and content analysis of 193 pages of transcripts was performed to interpret the data. Three stages of development occurred. In the first, the team organized, oriented itself, set goals and attempted to understand the simulation parameters. In the second, the team analyzed, prioritized and coordinated goals. In the third, this team analyzed little and became very routinized.