Accounting in organizations : a union of natural and rational perspectives / BEBR No. 811

Includes bibliography

Budget cutting in Riverside : emergent policy reframing as a process of analytic discovery and conflict minimization / 970

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39)

A coordination cost approach to the strategy-structure paradigm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 10)

Achieving Routine in Organizational Change

We preconceived that uncertainty and the need to discover new framing concepts would frequently face school decision-makers trying to significantly alter their domain. In contrast, however, we found that familiar administrative mechanisms were used to channel consideration of a major decision—that of the computerization of the curriculum. These familiar administrative mechanisms were used in combination with inspired use of language to reinforce the routine frame. Thus, for organizational participants, the very routineness symbolized the unexceptional nature of a change that might otherwise have aroused considerably more attention

Readings in managerial psychology

xii, 641 p.; 21 cm

Effect of Three Voting Rules on Resource Allocation Decisions

This paper is concerned with the effect of the voting rule adopted by a capital budgeting committee on the allocation of resources among divisions. The results of a laboratory experiment indicate that different voting rules have different characteristics measured in terms of the size of the total budget allocation made and the inter division variability. In addition, an attempt is made to ascertain the techniques followed within the groups to reach a decision. None of the four models offered provides an adequate explanation of the observed behavior. However, a mixed model consisting of two of the approaches does provide a reasonable explanation for the observed behavior.