International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 16 Issue 3

Perceived obstacles as the indicators of adaptive paths to performance management: Tracing exploration and exploitation in surveys of public managers

Ed Gibson

Research on performance management, as it applies to public sector organizations, has been addressed most often from a static perspective. A process-oriented view on performance…

Measuring organization: Performance in environmental agencies

Luke Fowler

State environmental agencies have been organized independently with a variety of structural schemes, and are responsible for the bulk of administration of federal environmental…

Symposium on models of rationality and decision making in organizations: Introduction

Davide Secchi

Unbounding bounded rationality: Heuristics as the logic of economic discovery

Anna Grandori, Magdalena Cholakova

This paper builds on a long-lasting research program on the micro-foundations of innovative decision making, founded on a development of a neglected epistemic aspect of Simon's…

Making it up as we go: A conceptual model of improvisation in organizations

Tal G. Zarankin, Shu Wang

This paper focuses on individuals' improvisation in organizations. The extant literature in this area examines improvisation as either a predictor or an outcome variable. However…