Strategic Decision Making Processes: Extending Theory to an English University

A wide variety of factors influence the quality of strategic decisions. This research considers one such influence, the Strategic Decision Making process. It explores whether previous theoretical propositions hold in quite different organisations in a very different business environment, namely a University in England. The research examines how a strategic problem was addressed. Interviews with the Top Management Team, supported by documentary evidence, are content analysed for the relevance of the propositions in this new environment. Two cases of decision making, relating to the same problem, in a single university suggest that the propositions are indeed relevant.