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The nature of organizational decision making and the desig n of decision support systems
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Questions about DSS in many organizational environments, such as political environments or garbage can environments, are more accurately portrayed with models other than the Rational Model.Abstract:
Today's Decision Support Systems (DSS) are almost invariably designed to function in rational, or rationalized, decision making environments. Many organizational environments, such as political environments or garbage can environments, are more accurately portrayed, however, with models other than the Rational Model. Can DSS be useful in such environments? What are the boundary conditions for the application of DSS? These are the questions addressed in this article.read more
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A field study of organizational factors influencing DSS success
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
Richard M. Cyert,James G. March +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of basic concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and present a specific price and output model for a specific type of products. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two concepts.
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A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice.
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
Richard M. Cyert,James G. March +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors advocate a theory based on empirical observation of actual firm decision-making, which provides a theory of decision making within business organizations, contrary to the economic theory of the firm, which sees firms as profit-maximizing entities.