Guest editorial: Beyond rationality in organizations’ choices: exploring the dark and the bright sides of non-rational decision-making

Abstract

BackgroundThe decision-making process of organizational agents has been investigated by management and organizational scholars due to its central role in influencing the operations and performance of organizations. In particular, since the emergence of the disrupting concept of bounded rationality (Simon, 1947)that questioned the previously dominating assumption of perfect rationalityscholarly interest has moved toward understanding the deviations of the human mind from logical and rational choice paths (Cristofaro, 2017).