Showing papers by "James G. March published in 2011"
Book•
10 Aug 2011
TL;DR: The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of change in North American business schools between 1945 and 1970 is explored in this paper, which traces the origins of this quiet revolution and shows how it shaped discussions about management education, leading to a shift in that weakened the place of business cases and experiential knowledge and strengthened support for a concept of professionalism that applied to management.
Abstract: Some rather remarkable changes took place in North American business schools between 1945 and 1970, altering the character of these institutions, the possibilities for their future, and the terms of discourse about them. This period represents a minor revolution, during which business school are reported to have become more academic, more analytic, and more quantitative. The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change considers these changes and explores their roots. It traces the origins of this quiet revolution and shows how it shaped discussions about management education, leading to a shift in that weakened the place of business cases and experiential knowledge and strengthened support for a concept of professionalism that applied to management. The text considers how the rhetoric of change was organized around three core questions: Should business schools concern themselves primarily with experiential knowledge or with academic knowledge? What vision of managers and management should be reflected by business schools? How should managerial education connect its teaching to some version of reality?
119 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: The Garbage Can Model Of Organizational Choice (GOCOP) as discussed by the authors is one of the most popular models of organizational choice, and it has been used extensively in the last few decades.
Abstract: En marzo de 1972, la revista emblematica Administrative Science Quarterly, publicaba el articulo "A Garbage Can Model Of Organizational Choice", de los profesores Michael D. Cohen, James G. March y Johan P Olsen, el cual, lo podemos decir ahora en voz alta, se consolido con el tiempo como uno de los documentos indispensables para el pensamiento organizacional, en particular, y para la teoria social, en general. ?Que es lo que hizo que ese sencillo articulo de 25 paginas en su version original impactara de tal manera la construccion cientifica de argumentos para entender las decisiones que se hacen en un espacio organizado? Podra ser discutible si los motivos o las categorias mencionadas en esta breve presentacion son los relevantes, pero lo que nadie puede poner en duda es que se trata de un documento fundacional de toda una escuela del pensamiento organizacional e institucional, de importante contribucion a las ciencias sociales. Por ese motivo, la revista Gestion y Politica Publica ha decidido presentar, a manera de homenaje, la traduccion de El bote de basura como modelo de eleccion organizacional
12 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: The difference between institutions and organizations is discussed in this article, under the idea that institutions are basically the rules of the game and that, if you design correctly the right incentives, people will follow them and we can change their behavior through those incentives.
Abstract: David Arellano: Following this wave of new public management that has been so influential in Mexico and Latin America there is a superficial discussion regarding the difference between institutions and organizations. In particular, under the idea that institutions are basically the rules of the game and that, if you design correctly the right incentives, people will follow them and we can change their behavior through those incentives. Therefore, you can build up, you can design and you can create institutions in a rational manner, through these
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