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Decisions and Organizations
James G. March (Author)
9780631168560, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 1 March 1989
468 pages
22.8 x 15.6 x 3.5 cm, 0.709 kg
This book collects together for the first time over 20 of James March's key essays, including those co-authorised with R.M. Cyert and J.P. Olsen and others. The coverage ranges from his early work on the behavioural theory of the firm, through conflict and adaptive rules in organizations, to decision-making under ambiguity (including the famed 'garbage can' model).
Introduction: A chronicle of speculations about organizational decision-making 1 Part I The Allocation of Attention 1 Organizational structure and pricing behavior in an oligopolistic market 25 2 Models in a behavioral theory of the firm 37 3 Financial adversity, internal competition and curriculum change in a university 61 4 Managerial perspectives on risk and risk-taking 76 Part II Conflict in Organizations 5 The business firm as a political coalition 101 6 The power of power 116 7 Implementation and ambiguity 150 Part III Adaptive Rules 8 Footnotes to organizational change 167 9 A model of adaptive organizational search 187 10 Learning from experience in organizations 219 11 Decision-making and postdecision surprises 228 Part IV Decision-Making under Ambiguity 12 The technology of foolishness 253 13 Bounded rationality, ambiguity and the engineering of choice 266 14 A garbage can model of organizational choice 294 15 The uncertainty of the past: organizational learning under ambiguity 335 16 Performance sampling in social matches 359 17 Ambiguity and accounting: the elusive link between information and decision-making 384 18 Information in organizations as signal and symbol 409 19 Gossip, information and decision-making 429 Index 443
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
