Participation in Decision Making as a Property of Complex Adaptive Systems: Developing and Testing a Measure

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Components of the participation in decision-making instrument. Participation in decision making has two major dimensions, Scope and Intensity. Scope is comprised of breadth and depth of information brought by participants. Intensity is comprised of decision activities and mechanisms through which decision participants process information. Decision making takes place within the context of the decisions to be made, which for organizational decision making are categorized as strategic (operations or marketing) and tactical (core functions and support functions).