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This paper offers me an opportunity to explore, more seriously than hitherto, an area of discomfort which I have now lived with for the best part of two decades, and which was brought closer to the surface in the debate at the Maratea workshop a year ago.
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The study was reported in the book Local Government and Strategic Choice by Friend, J.K. and Jessop, W.N. (London: Tavistock 1969: second edition Oxford: Pergamon 1977 )
A retrospective review of the experience appears in an internal paper entitled A Series of Projects in Public Planning (COOR 83, TIHR, 1982).
For a chronological bibliography see internal paper COOR 108, TIHR, 1983.
Bennett, P.J. and Bussell, R.R.: Conflict and Strategic Choice (in this volume).
Mack, Ruth.: Planning on Uncertainty New York, Wiley 1971.
McWhinney, W.H. Organizational Form, Decision Modalities and the Environment Human Relations, Vol. 21 No 3 1968.
Friend, J.K.: Reflections On Rationality in Strategic Choice. In Environment and Planning B, Vol. 10 1983.
See Friend, J.K. and Jessop, W.N. ibid Chapter 4.
See Friend, J.K. and Jessop, W.N. ibid pp 49 and 53.
See Fishburn, P.C. Decision and Value Theory, New York, Wiley, 1984.
See Friend, J.K. and Jessop, W.N. ibid Chapter 5.
See Hickling, D.A.; Managing Decisions Rugby: Mantec 1974 or Friend, J.K. and Hickling, D.A. Strategic Choice: A Planner’s Guide. Oxford: Pergamon 1984 (forthcoming)
See Friend, J.K.: Transport Planning and City Government. Unpublished paper T931, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, 1967.
See Emery, F.E. and Trist, E.L. The Causal Texture of Organisational Environments in Human Relations 18, 20–6, 1963.
See McWhinney, W.H. ibid.
See Crozier, M. and Friedberg, E. Actors and Systems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Popper, Karl, Objective Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.
See Dalkey, N.C. The Delphi Method: an Experimental Study of Group Opinions. Memorandum RM-5888-PR. Santa Monica, Calif: Rand Corporation, 1969.
See Chapter 6 of Friend, J.K. Power, J.M. and Yewlett, C.J.L.: Public Planning: the Intercorporate Dimension. London: Tavistock 1974.
See Footnote (4).
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Friend, J. (1986). Reflections on Uncertainty in Strategic Choice. In: Wilkin, L. (eds) The Management of Uncertainty: Approaches, Methods and Applications. NATO ASI Series, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4458-9_4
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