Research Catalog

Title

The pursuit of organizational intelligence / James G. March.

Author

March, James G.

Publication

Malden, Ma : Blackwell, 1999.

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Description

ix., 397 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Knowledge management
• Organizational learning
• Management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

ISBN

• 0631211012 (alk. pbk.)
• 0631211020 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98036982

OCLC

• 39671969
• ocm39671969

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries