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James G. March

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#79

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#26

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According to Wikipedia, James Gardner March was an American political scientist, sociologist, and economist. A professor at Stanford University in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Education, he is best known for his research on organizations, his seminal work on A Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and the organizational decision making model known as the Garbage Can Model.

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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. (1964) (15178)
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning (1991) (10378)
The myopia of learning (1993) (7217)
A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. (1972) (7017)
Rediscovering institutions: The organizational basis of politics (1989) (4957)
The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life (1983) (3337)
Managerial perspectives on risk and risk taking (1987) (3109)
Ambiguity and choice in organizations (1976) (2911)
A primer on decision making : how decisions happen (1994) (2310)
The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders (1998) (2196)
Bounded rationality, ambiguity, and the engineering of choice (1978) (2152)
Handbook of organizations (1966) (1744)
Information in Organizations as Signal and Symbol. (1981) (1648)
Learning from samples of one or fewer* (1991) (1239)
A model of adaptive organizational search (1981) (1212)
THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE PAST: ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING UNDER AMBIGUITY* (1975) (979)
Footnotes To Organizational Change (1980) (961)
Variable risk preferences and the focus of attention (1992) (703)
The Business Firm as a Political Coalition (1962) (697)
Decisions and Organizations (1991) (674)
Elaborating the “New Institutionalism” (2008) (652)
Organizing Political Life: What Administrative Reorganization Tells Us about Government (1983) (595)
Adaptation as Information Restriction: The Hot Stove Effect (2001) (576)
Crossroads---Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable (1997) (543)
An introduction to models in the social sciences (1975) (521)
The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence (1999) (516)
Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions (1996) (499)
The Logic of Appropriateness (2008) (467)
Rationality, foolishness, and adaptive intelligence (2006) (399)
Organizational Learning (2008) (378)
Ambiguity and accounting: The elusive link between information and decision making☆ (1987) (358)
Continuity and Change in Theories of Organizational Action (1996) (349)
Organizations, 2nd ed. (1993) (323)
Variable risk preferences and adaptive aspirations (1988) (314)
Learning from Experience in Organizations (1985) (313)
The Technology of Foolishness (2020) (295)
The Ambiguities of Experience (2010) (294)
Adaptive Coordination of a Learning Team (1987) (276)
The Future, Disposable Organizations and the Rigidities of Imagination (1995) (265)
Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable (2016) (265)
How Decisions Happen in Organizations (1991) (257)
Implementation and ambiguity (1986) (242)
EFFECTS OF A LOW‐HEAD DAM AND WATER ABSTRACTION ON MIGRATORY TROPICAL STREAM BIOTA (1999) (234)
An Introduction to the Theory and Measurement of Influence (1955) (200)
Decision Making and Postdecision Surprises. (1984) (195)
Organizational decision making: Understanding how decisions happen in organizations (1996) (194)
Parochialism in the Evolution of a Research Community: The Case of Organization Studies (2005) (193)
Learning to be risk averse. (1996) (171)
Damming Tropical Island Streams: Problems, Solutions, and Alternatives (2003) (167)
Almost Random Careers: The Wisconsin School Superintendency, 1940-1972. (1977) (159)
The School as a Formal Organization (2013) (150)
The Study of Organizations and Organizing Since 1945 (2007) (139)
Organizational Factors in the Theory of Oligopoly (1956) (139)
The Pursuit of Relevance in Management Education (2007) (138)
Testing isosource: stable isotope analysis of a tropical fishery with diverse organic matter sources. (2006) (137)
Notes on the Evolution of a Research Community: Organization Studies in Anglophone North America, 1945-2000 (2005) (136)
Model Bias in Social Action (1972) (132)
American Public School Administration: A Short Analysis (1978) (132)
Ambiguity and Command: Organizational Perspectives on Military Decision Making (1986) (130)
Effects of freshwater shrimp assemblages on benthic communities along an altitudinal gradient of a tropical island stream (2002) (127)
The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American Business Schools After the Second World War (2011) (121)
Schumpeter, Winter, and the sources of novelty (2006) (118)
Financial Adversity, Internal Competition, and Curriculum Change in a University. (1978) (118)
Linking shrimp assemblages with rates of detrital processing along an elevational gradient in a tropical stream (2001) (117)
Migratory drift of larval freshwater shrimps in two tropical streams, Puerto Rico (1998) (115)
How We Talk and How We Act: Administrative Theory and Administrative Life. (1980) (110)
Theories of choice and making decisions (1982) (109)
LINKING SPECIES AND ECOSYSTEMS: DIFFERENT BIOTIC ASSEMBLAGES CAUSE INTERSTREAM DIFFERENCES IN ORGANIC MATTER (1999) (95)
Food Web Structure and Basal Resource Utilization along a Tropical Island Stream Continuum, Puerto Rico (2003) (93)
Food Web Structure and Basal Resource Utilization along a Tropical Island Stream Continuum, Puerto Rico1 (2003) (91)
Aging : stability and change in the family (1983) (90)
The Role of Expectations in Business Decision Making (1958) (88)
Explorations in Organizations (2008) (74)
Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights (2008) (74)
The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence: Decisions and Learning in Organizations (1999) (70)
Models of a Man: Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon (2004) (66)
Notes on ambiguity and executive compensation (1984) (64)
Environmental Scanning : Acquisition and Use of Information by Managers (2011) (60)
A Scholar's Quest (2003) (59)
Biotic and abiotic controls on the ecosystem significance of consumer excretion in two contrasting tropical streams (2010) (56)
A retrospective look at A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (2008) (54)
Performance Sampling in Social Matches (1978) (53)
Models in a behavioral theory of the firm (2007) (53)
“A Garbage Can Model” At Forty: A Solution that Still Attracts Problems (2012) (50)
Organizational consultants and organizational research (1991) (50)
Estuarine Larval Development and Upstream Post-Larval Migration of Freshwater Shrimps in Two Tropical Rivers of Puerto Rico1 (2000) (49)
Popular Sovereignty and the Search for Appropriate Institutions (1986) (49)
Measurement Concepts in the Theory of Influence (1957) (49)
Party Legislative Representation as a Function of Election Results (1957) (48)
Two Experiments on Bias and Conflict in Organizational Estimation (1961) (47)
The Structure of Chaos: Organized Anarchy as a Response to Ambiguity@@@Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations. (1977) (46)
11 A Learning Perspective on the Network Dynamics of Institutional Integration (2008) (43)
The Economics of Choice, Change and Organization (2002) (42)
Ambiguity and the Engineering of Choice (1979) (40)
Understanding Organisational Adaptation (2003) (39)
Technology, management, and competitive advantage. (1990) (39)
Administrative Practice, Organization Theory, and Political Philosophy: Ruminations on the Reflections of John M. Gaus (1997) (36)
Influence Measurement in Experimental and Semi-Experimental Groups (1956) (35)
Analytical Skills and the University Training of Educational Administrators (1974) (35)
Biodiversity and ecosystem function in species-poor communities: community structure and leaf litter breakdown in a Pacific island stream (2009) (34)
Organizational Growth and Development (2013) (33)
A model scholar: Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001) (2002) (33)
The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes (2002) (32)
Recovery of a tropical stream after a harvest-related chlorine poisoning event. (2005) (32)
Hospitals: Technology, Structure, and Goals (2013) (32)
A Behaviorial Theory of the Firm (1964) (31)
Ideas as art (2007) (30)
Emerging Developments in the Study of Organizations (2017) (29)
Group norms and the active minority. (1954) (27)
Husband-Wife Interaction Over Political Issues (1953) (26)
Communications in Organizations (2013) (25)
The war is over and the victors have lost (1992) (24)
Remembering Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) (2001) (23)
Behavioral Perspectives on Theories of the Firm (1988) (23)
Poetry and the Rhetoric of Management (2006) (23)
The economics of choice, change and organization : essays in memory of Richard M. Cyert (2003) (22)
Introduction: Some Roots and Branches of Organizational Economics (2000) (21)
Effects of urbanization on the population structure of freshwater turtles across the United States (2018) (20)
Estuarine Larval Development and Upstream Post‐Larval Migration of Freshwater Shrimps in Two Tropical Rivers of Puerto Rico (2000) (18)
The economic psychology of Herbert A. Simon: Introduction to a special issue (2003) (18)
LES MYTHES DU MANAGEMENT (1999) (17)
Factors influencing the distribution and abundance of the endangered winged mapleleaf mussel Quadrula fragosa in the St. Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin (1996) (17)
Perspective - The Flaring of Intellectual Outliers: An Organizational Interpretation of the Generation of Novelty in the RAND Corporation (2015) (17)
Ibsen, Ideals, and the Subornation of Lies (2007) (17)
Scholarship, Scholarly Institutions, and Scholarly Communities (2007) (15)
Perspective - Scholarship, Scholarly Institutions, and Scholarly Communities (2007) (15)
Realism and comprehension in economics: A footnote to an exchange between Oliver E. Williamson (2008) (14)
The 1978 nobel prize in economics. (1978) (14)
Benthic Community Structure and Invertebrate Drift in a Pacific Island Stream, Kosrae, Micronesia1 (2003) (14)
Organization Design and Systems Analysis (2013) (14)
Performance Sampling and Weibull Distributions. (1981) (14)
Interpersonal Relations in Organizations (2013) (13)
6. James G. March and Johan P. Olsen. 1984. “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life.” American Political Science Review 78 (September): 734–49 Cited 456 times. (2006) (11)
The War is Over, The Victors Have Lost (1992) (11)
Conflict of Interest in Theories of Organization: Herbert A. Simon and Oliver E. Williamson (2001) (11)
Ideas as art. Interview by Dane Cutu. (2006) (10)
Political Party Organization (2013) (10)
Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations) (2013) (10)
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Attempts to Develop a Theory of the Firm which is Based on Empirical Studies of Decision-making within the Firm. (1964) (9)
The Power of Power (2017) (8)
In praise of beauty (2013) (8)
Changing Interpersonal and Intergroup Relationships in Organizations (2013) (7)
On organizing: an interview with James G. March (2017) (7)
Mathematics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Probability, Calculus and Statistics (1969) (7)
Benthic Community Structure and Invertebrate Drift in a Pacific Island Stream, Kosrae, Micronesia 1 (2003) (7)
Sociological Jurisprudence Revisited, A Review (More or Less) of Max Gluckman (1956) (7)
The two projects of microeconomics (2014) (6)
Group Autonomy and Internal Group control (1955) (6)
Management and Organization Review Special Issue on ‘Ambiguity and Decision Making in Chinese Organizations and Thought’ (2012) (5)
Social Structure and Organizations (2013) (5)
Ambiguity, endogeneity, and intelligence (1996) (5)
Organisational decision-making (2019) (5)
Las ideas como arte (2006) (5)
Institutions and organizations: differences and linkages from organization theory (2011) (5)
Autonomy As a Factor in Group Organization: A Study in Politics (1980) (4)
Small Groups and Large Organizations (2013) (4)
Do the Mistakes Lie in Decision-Makers or in Economics? (2015) (4)
Some Thoughts on the Development of Disciplines, with Particular Attention to Behavioral Strategy (2018) (4)
Latent Motives, Group Discussion, and the "Quality" of Group Decisions in a Non-Objective Decision Problem (1960) (4)
Mathematics for the social and behavioral sciences (1969) (3)
The Comparative Analysis of Organizations (2013) (3)
Learning from samples of one or fewer. 1991. (2003) (3)
A note on attrition among college presidents, 1971–1974 (1975) (2)
A Special “Provocations and Provocateurs” Section Honoring Jim March (2020) (2)
13 Parochialism in the Evolution of a Research Community (2008) (2)
An experiment in model building. (1966) (2)
Organizations: An Executive's View@@@Organizations (1959) (1)
A comparison of the stream temperature regime under forested and non-forested riparian 4 zones at eleven sites across North America (2014) (1)
The Rhetoric of Reality (2011) (1)
[Satisfactory Profits as a Guide to Firm Behavior]: Reply (1959) (1)
4. GENERATING NOVELTY (2010) (1)
Mathematics and Organization Theory (2013) (1)
Management and Organization Review Special Issue on ‘Ambiguity and Decision Making in Chinese Organizations and Thought’ (2012) (1)
An Incubator of Change: The RAND Corporation (2011) (1)
Business operating procedures. (1961) (1)
A Behaviorial Theory of the Firm . By Richard M. Cyert and James G. March. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1963. Pp. x, 332. (1964) (1)
Selected Articles and Documents on: Methodology and Research in the Social Sciences (1958) (1)
Brief Letters on Lou Pondy (1989) (1)
Leadership and ambiguity : the American college president Harvard Business School (2018) (1)
On organizing: an interview with James G. March (2017) (0)
The Lessons of History (2011) (0)
In memoriam Herbert Simon (1916-2001) (2002) (0)
Michel Crozier: 6 November 1922 * 23 May 2013 (2015) (0)
Decision Making and Problem Solving (2013) (0)
Konflikt in Organisationen (1976) (0)
Decision Processes and Value Endogeneity (2018) (0)
2. LEARNING THROUGH REPLICATING SUCCESS (2010) (0)
The Role of the Classics (2019) (0)
Economic Theories of Organization (2013) (0)
The Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey: Political Science. (1969) (0)
Food Web Structure and Basal Resource Utilization along a Tropical Island Stream Continuum , Puerto Ricol (2014) (0)
6. James G. March and Johan P. Olsen. 1984. American Political Science Review 78 (September): 734 49 Cited 456 times. (2006) (0)
5. THE LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE (2010) (0)
A broader approach to understanding urbanization effects on freshwater turtles: reply to Lambert and Steen 2019 (2019) (0)
17 The Pursuit of Relevance in Management Education (2008) (0)
Emerging Developments in the Study of Organizations (2017) (0)
Interview with James G. March: Stanford, January 16th 2001 (2002) (0)
FIRM-SPECIFIC COGNITIVE FRAMES AS CO-DETERMINANTS OF PERSISTENT PERFORMANCE DIFFERENTIALS By THORBJØRN KNUDSEN (0)
A Legend of Change: Abraham Flexner (2011) (0)
Technological innovation: Clearing the fog (1997) (0)
APSA Awards and Recipients (1982) (0)
10 The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders (2008) (0)
6 Adaptation as Information Restriction (2008) (0)
16 Considerations for Inquiry's journeys (2005) (0)
Organizations@@@Modern Organization Theory (1960) (0)
Chapter 13 A fellow from Kansas (2010) (0)
An Introduction to Electronic Data Processing . By Nett Roger and Hetzler Stanley A. (Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press. 1959. P. 287. $6.75.) (1960) (0)
12 Research on Organizations (2008) (0)
19 Poetry and the Rhetoric of Management (2008) (0)
FROM ORGANIZATIONS: (2021) (0)
Political Science: The Behavioral and Social Science Survey. (1970) (0)
15 The Study of Organizations and Organizing since 1945 (2008) (0)
A Poster Child of Change: GSIA (2011) (0)
Organizations: A Social Scientist's View@@@Organizations (1959) (0)
An Engine of Change: The Ford Foundation (2011) (0)
7 Schumpeter, Winter, and the Sources of Novelty (2008) (0)
Exploration and Exploitation (2007) (0)
16 Scholarship, Scholarly Institutions, and Scholarly Communities (2008) (0)
18 Literature and Leadership (French: Littérature et leadership) (2008) (0)
Volume Information (1968) (0)
Spreading the Gospel of Change (2011) (0)
Organizational Control Structure (2013) (0)
3 An Epilogue (2008) (0)
14 Notes on the Evolution of a Research Community (2008) (0)
The Rhetoric of Relevance (2011) (0)
Interview with James March: «If You Think You’re a Good Scholar You Do It Regardless of Whether It has Any Consequences» (translated by Dana Assalauova) (2012) (0)
Older people's shared priority - Policy Document (2007) (0)
A Spirit of Change: Hutchins's University of Chicago (2011) (0)
Heroes and History at CBS (2009) (0)
2 Introduction to the Second Edition (2008) (0)
Selected Articles and Documents on: Methodology and Research in the Social Sciences (1958) (0)
3. LEARNING THROUGH STORIES AND MODELS (2010) (0)
Effect of riparian shade on stream water temperature: A collaboration among eleven primarily undergraduate institutions (2012) (0)
20 Ibsen, Ideals, and the Subornation of Lies (2008) (0)
9 The New Institutionalism (2008) (0)
1. THE PURSUIT OF INTELLIGENCE (2010) (0)
The Contexts of Change (2011) (0)
References and Further Reading Origins and Early Development (0)
5 Understanding Organizational Adaptation (2008) (0)
4 Learning and the Theory of the Firm (2008) (0)
8 Rationality, Foolishness, and Adaptive Intelligence (2008) (0)
Technological innovation: Frontmatter (1997) (0)
The Organization of Traditional Authority: English County Government, 1558 to 1640 (2013) (0)
The Rhetoric of Professionalism (2011) (0)

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