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  Ronald N. Taylor
George R. Brown Professor of Business Policy


Contact:
Email: rtaylor@rice.edu
Office

Rm. 236
Mailstop: MS-531
Phone: 713.348.5380

Teaching Areas:
Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management

Scholarly Areas:
Creative Processes in Planning and Decision-Making, Strategic Planning

Affiliations:

Member
American Asssociation of University Professors
Member
Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
Member
Strategic Management Society

Education:
B.A. (1960) Westminster College
M.A. (1964) University of Nebraska (Omaha)
Ph.D. (1970) University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

Research Statement:
My research deals with creativity in managerial decision making and strategic planning.

I am revising my single-authored scholarly book, Cretivity in Managerial Problem Solving and Decision Making, for Sage Publishers.

Sage Publishers also expressed interest in my publishing a companion scholarly book, Strategic Creativity, and I am preparing materials on this book for editorial review.

Publications:


Journal Articles
Taylor, Ronald N.. 1992. "Strategic decision making." Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology. Palo Alto Consulting Psychologists Press 2nd ed. Vol. 3 901-960

Taylor, Ronald N., with P.J. Frost. 1995. "Partisan Perspective: A Multiple-Level Interpretation of the Manuscript Review Process in the Social Science Journals. ." Publishing in the Organizational Sciences Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications 2nd ed. pp. 13-43

Taylor, Ronald N.. 1999. "Inclusive Strategic Planning for Healthcare Technology.." Abstracted in Delivering to the Global Consumer: INFORMS99 Cincinnati

Taylor, Ronald N.. 1999. "A Prescriptive Model for Inclusive Strategic Planning." OR/MS and the Quality of Life: INFORMS Philadelphia 63

Taylor, Ronald N.. 2000. "Stakeholder Inclusiveness & Creativity in Strategic Planning (abstract)." INFORMS San Antonio 91

Research in Progress:

Taylor, Ronald N.."Creativity in Management Decision Making Through Stakeholder Involvement."

Taylor, Ronald N.."Making Strategic Planning Creative."

Taylor, Ronald N.." Extensive Review of the Research Literature on Creativity in Strategic Planning and Managerial Decision Making."

Taylor, Ronald N.."Behavioral and Organizational Perspectives for Adaptive Strategic Planning."

Taylor, Ronald N.."Creative Processes in Strategy Making."

Taylor, Ronald N.."Inclusive Strategic Planning: Implications for Unleashing Creativity."

Taylor, Ronald N.."Managers Making Decisions: An Analytic-Action Approach to Causal Analysis and Decision Making.."

Services to Profession:

Strategic Planning II, INFORMS National Meeting,, Fall 2000Strategic Planning II, INFORMS National Meeting,

Editorial Review Board, Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis from All of Calendar Year 2004 University of British Columbia.

Academic Journal Editorial Board Member, Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis from 2002 continuing. .

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis from 2001 continuing --.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis. from January 1 to December 31, 2000 .


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