Carnegie goes to California : advancing and celebrating the work of James G. March

With work spanning management, political science, sociology, public administration and education, James G. March was a founder of organization theory. Honouring his exceptional ability to go beyond the models of rationality so prevalent in much of organizational scholarship, this edited collection b...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Beckman, Christine M. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 76.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800439801
DOI10.1108/S0733-558X202176
Physical Description1 online resource (xxi, 307 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Alternatives and complements to rationality / Christine M. Beckman Section 1. Building on the post-1970 Legacy of James G. March
  • Chapter 1. Marching to the sea: Little ideas and small innovations in the evolution of amphibious operations / Mie Augier and Sean F.X. Barrett
  • Chapter 2. Management systems for exploration and exploitation / M. Diane Burton and Charles A. O'Reilly III
  • Chapter 3. Adaptive rationality, garbage cans, and the policy process / Scott C. Ganz
  • Chapter 4. "fools" with impossible goals: Mobilizing march's technology of foolishness to tackle grand challenges / Yanfei Hu and Claus Rerup
  • Chapter 5. The variance of variance / Chengwei Liu and Chia-Jung Tsay
  • Chapter 6. Truth, beauty and justice in models of social action / Mark Zbaracki, Lee Watkiss, Cameron McAlpine, and Julian Barg
  • Chapter 7. The logic of appropriateness - a central concept in institutional theory / Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid
  • Chapter 8. Bringing the logic of appropriateness into the lab: An experimental study of behavior and cognition / Daniel A. Newark and Markus C. Becker Section 2. Reflections on Jim March as a Teacher and Educator
  • Chapter 9. James march's lessons on teaching / Thierry Weil
  • Chapter 10. A few notes on jim march as a mentor / Mie Augier
  • Chapter 11. A personal reflection on my long relationship with jim march / Zur Shapira
  • Chapter 12. Learning about scholarship and being a scholar: The courage of foolishness / Sim B Sitkin Conclusion. Pictures at an Exhibition / Daniel A. Newark.