Project Management in Behavioural Perspective – Cognitive Biases in the Formulation of the Aim of the Project

• Authors: Dariusz Kiełczewski , Anna Matel , Tomasz Poskrobko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article contains a behavioural analysis of the aim-formulating stage of the project. The purpose of the article is to point out that in the process of formulating the aim of the project, it comes to such decision-making situations which favour heuristic thinking. The article presents the results of the secondary research. As a result of verified theory, according to which in the process of formulating the aim of the project, the interference in decision-making processes may occur on the part of the heuristics and the resulting cognitive biases.

Keywords

EN

project management; behavioural economics; cognitive bias; aim of the project

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ekonomia i Zarzadzanie
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 70-78

Dates

published

2016-09-01

received

2016-01-05

accepted

2016-08-01

online

2016-10-15

Contributors

author

Dariusz Kiełczewski

• Department of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Bialystok,

author

Anna Matel

• Department of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Bialystok,

author

Tomasz Poskrobko

• Department of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Bialystok,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/emj-2016-0025