Wozniak, A: Decision-making as a convenient fiction

Decision-making as a Convenient Fiction has been
inspired by an excessive preoccupation by
organisation and management studies with the
concepts of decision-making and rational choice
which has created an image of organisational man ,
dealing with the world by means of representations
and intentions. Simultaneously, the way of
portraying organisations developed on the basis of
analogical mechanisms privileging rationalistic,
linear processes. The present publication challenges
the universality of the above intellectual
priorities by placing them against the
socioeconomic contexts in which
they originated. It brings to the foreground
alternative views on what constitutes human conduct,
social order and knowledge. The rationalisations
permeating accounts of social sciences are opposed
with the notion of play as a clue to an ontological
explanation. It is illustrated by the Afro-Brazilian
practice of capoeira, which engenders a mode of
existence based on non-intentional embodied
engagement. This alternative way of dealing with the
world by means of sentient continuity reveals
hidden dimension of any organisational contex.