The Garbage can model of organizational choice: looking forward at forty
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bradford Emerald Group Pub. 2012
Schriftenreihe:Research in the sociology of organizations 36
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Front cover; the garbage can model of organizational choice: looking forward at forty; copyright page; contents; list of contributors; advisory board; part i: introduction; the garbage can model of organizational choice: looking forward at forty; overview; organization of the volume; contents of the chapters; notes; acknowledgments; references; ''a garbage can model'' at forty: a solution that still attracts problems; introduction; the ''birth'' of a garbage can model; a child of the enlightenment; the progeny of garbage can ideas; references; part ii: preferences
Turn-taking and geopolitics in the making of decisionsintroduction; the cuban missile crisis; data; method; analysis; choice of the blockade; implementing the blockade; the two offers; alternative histories; conclusion; notes; acknowledgment; references; appendix a: excomm members; appendix b: transcribing conventions; mechanisms generating context-dependent choices; introduction; shifting attention to attributes of alternatives; context-dependent choices; shifting attention can explain choice-set effects; a random walk model of organizational attention and choice
Conclusion: the instrumental value of process theoryreferences; chance, preferences, and predictions in garbage can theory; introduction; stochastic models of gc processes; the basic setup; implications of the model; model 2: problems, solutions, and temporal order; model 3; computer simulations; conclusions; notes; acknowledgments; references; part iii: decision technology; garbage can ecologies: an agent-based exploration; introduction; an agent-based reconstruction of ''a garbage can model''; garbage can ecologies; analysis; discussion and conclusions; notes; references
Aspects of garbage can processes: temporal order and the role of expeditingintroduction; managerial decision making in garbage can type situations; sensitivity analysis of findings; analysis of the results; simple solutions for complex organizational decision making; university presidents' decision making processes; the garbage can model as a general paradigm for organizational decision making; acknowledgments; references; appendix a: original flowchart of simulation; appendix b: modified flowchart (italicized words indicate the changes made); garbage can in the lab; introduction
The original garage can model and its use in a laboratory experimentthe experimental garbage can and the simulation benchmark results; performing the experiment; results from the laboratory experiment; conclusions; notes; acknowledgments; references; appendix a: instructions to subjects; appendix b: pseudo code of the downscaled gcm for the experiment; appendix c:computer code for the downscaled gcm for the experiment; part iv: participation; team formation in the garbage can; introduction; properties altered in the garbage can model; modeling skill combinations; forming teams
This volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice, its impact on our understanding of organizational decision making
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