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ERIC Number: EJ293406
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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The Role of Rationality in University Budgeting.
Chaffee, Ellen Earle
Research in Higher Education, v19 n4 p387-406 1983
Although empirical accounts of organizational decision making often show that the process is not a rational one, a study of budgeting at Stanford University during the 1970s, while not conclusive or comprehensive, supported the claim that the institution's process was rational and provided a procedure for testing a decision-making model. (MSE)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, College Planning, Decision Making, Financial Policy, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Logical Thinking, Policy Formation, Private Colleges, Universities
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Stanford University CA