The garbage can model of organizational choice looking forward at forty

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 u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lomi, Alessandro
Other Authors: Harrison, J. Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald 2012
Series:Research in the sociology of organizations
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of 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