Taking Simon Seriously: Doctrines as a Key Construct of Managerial and Entrepreneurial Action
Herbert Simon argued that bounded rationality places a fundamental limitation on managerial action. Since this critical insight, management studies have produced a scholarship corpus so divergent and unbounded that few, if any, managers could possibly absorb the breadth of its observations and prescriptions. We explore the possible gaps between the scientific production in the management field and different knowledge corpuses that may drive the action of the prototypical boundedly rational manager, identifying cumulative rounds of drastic selection that are not accounted for in our scholarship process. In contrast, other scholarly literature studying human actions—such as diplomacy, military or even economics—have taken a different and complementary approach by studying and producing “doctrines, the synthetic sets of simple rules that drive cognitive processes and actions. The existence of such high-level meta rules in other fields but not in management raises important questions about the potential role of such doctrines—implicit or explicit, conscious or unconscious—in the study of management.
Fabrice Cavarretta Nathan R.Furr
Management Department.ESSEC Business SchoolCergy Pontoise, France Marriott School of Management Brigham Young University Provo, UT, USA
国际会议
北京
英文
1-28
2011-07-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）