The garbage can model of organizational choice : looking forward at forty / edited by Alessandro Lomi, J. Richard Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lomi, Alessandro, 1961-

Harrison, J. Richard.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 36.

Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; v. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational sociology.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, [Eng.] : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The year 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the publication of Cohen, March, and Olsen's influential article "The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice", which offered a major new perspective on organizational decision making. To celebrate this enduring paradigm, its impact on our understanding of organizational decision making, and the broad streams of research it has influenced, this collection of papers provides a rich demonstration of the influence that the GCM is continuing to have on current research. The chapters make original contributions to research on organizational decision making by developing new models and theoretical extensions based on or inspired by prior garbage can work, by applying garbage can concepts and interpretations to new problems and novel settings. The year 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the publication of Cohen, March, and Olsen's influential article "The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice", which offered a major new perspective on organizational decision making. To celebrate this enduring paradigm, its impact on our understanding of organizational decision making, and the broad streams of research it has influenced, this collection of papers provides a rich demonstration of the influence that the GCM is continuing to have on current research. The chapters make original contributions to research on organizational decision making by developing new models and theoretical extensions based on or inspired by prior garbage can work, by applying garbage can concepts and interpretations to new problems and novel settings. The book includes a paper from Cohen, March and Olsen, who record their memories of initial encounters with garbage can ideas of organizational decision making, impressions of their current condition, and some thoughts on convolutions they may experience in the years ahead.

Contents:

The garbage can model of organizational choice : looking forward at forty / Alessandro Lomi, J. Richard Harrison

'A garbage can model' at forty : a solution that still attracts problems / Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, Johan P. Olsen

Turn-taking and geopolitics in the making of decisions / David R. Gibson

Mechanisms generating context-dependent choices / Jerker Denrell

Chance, preferences, and predictions in garbage can theory / Jonathan Bendor, Kenneth W. Shotts

Garbage can ecologies : an agent-based exploration / Guido Fioretti

Aspects of garbage can processes : temporal order and the role of expediting / Sridhar Seshadri, Zur Shapira

Garbage can in the lab / Thorbjørn Knudsen, Massimo Warglien, Sangyoon Yi

Team formation in the garbage can / Klaus G. Troitzsch

Modeling formal and informal ties within an organization : a multiple model integration / Geoffrey P. Morgan, Kathleen M. Carley

Situated attention, loose and tight coupling, and the garbage can model / William Ocasio

Structure, skill, and ambition in organizational problem solving / Thorbjørn Knudsen, Nils Stieglitz, Sangyoon Yi

From the ivy tower to the C-suite : garbage can processes and corporate strategic decision making / Daniel A. Levinthal

Organized anarchies and the network dynamics of decision opportunities in an open source software project / Alessandro Lomi, Guido Conaldi, Marco Tonellato

Organizational decision mechanisms in an architectural competition / Kristian Kreiner

Geopolitics and garbage cans : understanding the essence of decision making in an interdisciplinary and psycho-cultural perspective / Mie Augier, Jerry Guo.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781283734349

1283734346

9781780527130

1780527136

OCLC:

818819087