Thierry A. Weill is Professor of Technology Management at Ecole des Mines in Paris. From 2000 to 2002, he acted as scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of France, Lionel Jospin. He is the author of two books, over 40 scientific papers, and several patents. He chairs a monthly workshop on technology and innovation management.
Part I The Allocation of Attention
1 Organizational structure and pricing behavior in an oligopolistic market 25
2 Models in a behavioral theory of the firm 37
3 Financial adversity, internal competition and curriculum change in a university 61
4 Managerial perspectives on risk and risk-taking 76
Part II Conflict in Organizations
5 The business firm as a political coalition 101
6 The power of power 116
7 Implementation and ambiguity 150
Part III Adaptive Rules
8 Footnotes to organizational change 167
9 A model of adaptive organizational search 187
10 Learning from experience in organizations 219
11 Decision-making and postdecision surprises 228
Part IV Decision-Making under Ambiguity
12 The technology of foolishness 253
13 Bounded rationality, ambiguity and the engineering of choice 266
14 A garbage can model of organizational choice 294
15 The uncertainty of the past: organizational learning under ambiguity 335
16 Performance sampling in social matches 359
17 Ambiguity and accounting: the elusive link between information and decision-making 384
18 Information in organizations as signal and symbol 409
19 Gossip, information and decision-making 429
Index 443