Key Features Emphasizes the theme of "management without control": This volume differs from most standard texts by highlighting both the challenges and opportunities that result from the independence of the individuals in the ...
In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to ...
This collection of recent papers authored or co-authored by James G. March explores contemporary issues in the study of organizations.
For over 30 years, James March has provided perhaps the most profound, sustained and innovative contribution to the field of organizational theory.
The authors propose a new theory of political behavior that re-invigorates the role of institutions—from laws and bureaucracy to rituals and symbols—as essential to understanding the modern political and economic systems that guide ...
Building on lecture notes from his acclaimed course at Stanford University, James March provides a brilliant introduction to decision making, a central human activity fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life.
Building on lecture notes from his acclaimed course at Stanford University, James March provides a brilliant introduction to decision making, a central human activity fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life.
Monograph on the leadership role of college presidents and evaluation of administrators' efficiency in universitys in the USA - discusses educational administration, educational policy decision making, planning and management, etc.
The essays published here reflect the shift in March's thinking, and therefore the shift in teaching of organizational theory generally, towards a "softer", more European approach since the late 1980s.
Organizations made up of members with bounded rationality adapt to situations in the short-term through routines or programs, and long-term adaptation is accomplished through the creation and modification of such programs (often through the ...