The Strategic Decision-Making as a Complex Adaptive System: A Conceptual Scientific Model
Table 1
Relationships between CAS and the conceptual scientific model.
Complex Adaptive System
Conceptual scientific model
External environment variables
Partners + shareholders Economy Market (consumers + competitors) Technology Society + trade union
Environmental Surveillance System
Decision agents
Integrated Rule System
ANP Davoodi method (consistency of the preference matrices) Aczél and Saaty method (“” decision agents) LP
Reaction system
Ranked strategic decisions
Set of actions
Strategic decision implementation
Adaptive learning
Comparison of individual decisions with the results of corrections related to the consistency of the preference matrices Comparison of individual decisions with the results of decisions to decision-makers group Evaluation of hierarchical strategic decisions
