Administrative Behavior:: Laying the foundations for cyert and march

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cohen, Michael D.
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0275
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 503-506
• 关键词: routine; decision making; habit; standard operating procedures; bounded rationality pragmatism; POSITIVISM

摘要

A Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Cyert and March (1963) can be interpreted as a culmination of new intellectual directions in the study of organization that began with Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior (1947). This essay shows how Simon broke with major pre-World War II intellectual traditions and thereby laid the groundwork on which A Behavioral Theory depends. It also suggests the contemporary potential of returning to themes that were set aside by Simon, but were key for prewar pragmatists, such as emphasizing the roles of habit and emotion in organizational action.