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RQ5 · WP2

What do CEOs, boards and country managers actually decide, and why?

Strategy documents say one thing; this question follows the decision chain from headquarters to country office to find out what gets decided in practice, and by whom.

Work package
WP2
Lead
Angelika Rettberg
Status
Open

The evidence so far

The survey behind STAKES Brief 01 asked 400 executives what they decide under political pressure, and A Problem of the Present looks at the decisions firms hand to AI in a crisis. The interviews now follow real decision chains through six of the seven cases.

Cases

Colombia, Lebanon, DR Congo, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Ukraine