NOTE: This paper was shipped to GMU as a pdf document, on a DVD with other documents in January 2009. The DVD is stored in Box 99, Folder 7 of Warfield Special Collection. A pdf file of the paper was added to Warfield Digital Collection. There is no hard copy version in GMU collections On 9 January 2009. Warfield mailed a DVD containing eleven papers, of which this is one, to Robert Vay, Special Collections & Archives, Fenwick Library, George Mason University.

ABSTRACT written by Warfield: "A natural question to be posed pertains to the combinatorial nature of the conditions facing high-level managers when they make what amounts to a final strategic choice in a problematic situation. Such a choice involves unusual resource commitment, possibly risking the future of the organization. Combinatorial nature refers both to the magnitude of the strategy universe and to the sensitivity of the outcome to a particular choice that is made. Final strategic choice may be based on a structural model, applying measures of complexity and insights derived from applying the Work Program of Complexity to develop the problematique for the situation facing the high-level manager. Two specific cases are used to illustrate the combinatorial nature of final strategic choice. A Waste Rebate accrues to the benefit of the manager whose choice is highly conserving of resources."

This paper was submitted for publication to the internet journal IJITM (International Journal of Innovative Management) with the understanding that, if accepted, the journal IJITM would permit to have it included in the Warfield Special Collection at GMU. As far as I know the paper was not accepted by the journal r.w. 8/29/2012.