Again, decision-making can essentially be divided into these four phases. The
existence of these phases does not imply anything about their rational or irrational
formulation. A decision of enormous consequences can – voluntarily or due to external
circumstance – be made within an hour or be the result of a rationalized decision-making
process. Precisely as the rationality of the result cannot be predicted, actors are left only
with the procedural rationality (Simon, 1976) of their decision-making.