The Process of Decision Making for Project Selection in a Sme Engineering Sector
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https://doi.org/10.5585/gep.v5i3.285Keywords:
, Tomada de Decisão Estratégica, Seleção de Novos Projetos, PMEAbstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the process, the characteristics and influencing factors of decision-making for the selection of new projects. The method chosen was the case study in a Brazilian SMEs in the engineering sector. The results show that the target company performs less complex form of decision-making than present the theoretical models on the subject, which would not necessarily be a problem. However, the process has certain shortcomings, including the lack of periodicity in decision-making, leaving the decision to develop new projects to requesting clients, the lack of a more robust analysis to support decision making, because the analysis is restricted to organizational factors rather than environmental factors and has a personalistic nature subject to experiences, personal limitations and biases of the main organization's decision-making. Is indicated as a theoreticalReferences
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