The topic of decision making spans many disciplines including both individual judgment and choice behavior and organizational decision making. In editing this volume I focused on potential linkages between the individual and organizational levels of analysis. My goal was to have authors describe their work, hoping to encourage cross pollination between the two domains in future research. Obviously, research that looked at the two levels of analysis has been attempted. In recent years researchers have shown renewed interest in work done at multiple levels of analysis. This volume reflects this growing trend and will contribute to more active interaction between researchers in the two traditions.

Editing this volume was a very demanding task and I would not have been able to do it without the help of several people. First and foremost is Don Kleinmuntz, who acted as series editor on behalf of the Publications Committee of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Don was very encouraging throughout the process and his comments on the chapters were invaluable. His insightful and prompt feedback was of great assistance. In addition, I discussed the contents of the book with Raghu Garud, Joe Lampel, Jim March, and Guje Sevon, and their advice is acknowledged. The discussions with doctoral students who took my seminar on Managerial Cognition also helped in thinking on the structure of the book. Julia Hough, our editor at Cambridge University Press, was very supportive and provided timely feedback at many points along the way.