Decisions and Organizations

Part I The Allocation of Attention

1 Organizational structure and pricing behavior in an oligopolistic market 25

2 Models in a behavioral theory of the firm 37

3 Financial adversity, internal competition and curriculum change in a university 61

4 Managerial perspectives on risk and risk-taking 76

Part II Conflict in Organizations

5 The business firm as a political coalition 101

6 The power of power 116

7 Implementation and ambiguity 150

Part III Adaptive Rules

8 Footnotes to organizational change 167

9 A model of adaptive organizational search 187

10 Learning from experience in organizations 219

11 Decision-making and postdecision surprises 228

Part IV Decision-Making under Ambiguity

12 The technology of foolishness 253

13 Bounded rationality, ambiguity and the engineering of choice 266

14 A garbage can model of organizational choice 294

15 The uncertainty of the past: organizational learning under ambiguity 335

16 Performance sampling in social matches 359

17 Ambiguity and accounting: the elusive link between information and decision-making 384

18 Information in organizations as signal and symbol 409

19 Gossip, information and decision-making 429

Index 443