The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence: Decisions and Learning in Organizations

The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence brings together the writing of one of the best–known academics in the field of decision making and organizational theory. It acts as a sequel to March′s earlier Decisions and Organizations. The essays published here reflect the shift in March′s thinking, and therefore the shift in teaching of organizational theory generally, towards a "softer", more European approach since the late 1980s.

Spis treści:
1. Introduction.
2. Understanding How Decisions Happen in Organizations.
3. Continuity and Change in Theories of Organizational Action.
4. Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions (with Johan P. Olsen).
5. Organizational Learning (with Barbara Levitt).
6. The Evolution of Evolution.
7. Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning.
8. Learning from Samples of One or Fewer (with Lee S. Sproull, and Michal Tamuz).
9. Adaptive Co–ordination of a Learning Team (with Pertti H. Lounamma).
10. The Future, Disposable Organizations, and the Rigidities of Imagination.
11. The Myopia of Learning (with Daniel A. Levinthal).
12. Wild Ideas: The Catechism of Heresy.
13. Variable Risk Preferences and Adaptive Aspirations.
14. Variable Risk Preferences and the Focus of Attention (with Zur Shapira).
15. Learning to Be Risk Averse.
16. Model Bias in Social Action.
17. Organizational Consultants and Organizational Research.
18. Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable (with Robert I. Sutton).
19. Science, Politics, and Mrs. Gruenberg.
20. Education and the Pursuit of Optimism.
21. A Scholar′s Quest.

Nota biograficzna:
James G. March is Professor of Organizational Theory, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business; Professor of International Economics, Emeritus; Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology, School of Humanities and Sciences; Professor of Educ ation (by courtesy), School of Education – Stanford University.

Okładka tylna:
The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence brings together the writing of one of the best–known academics in the field of decision making and organizational theory. It acts as a sequel to March′s earlier Decisions and Organizations. The essays published here reflect the shift in March′s thinking, and therefore the shift in teaching of organizational theory generally, towards a "softer", more European approach since the late 1980s.