Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision Making Processes in Administrative Organization [paperback] Herbert A. Simon [Jun 03, 1976]

Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision Making Processes in Administrative Organization

Herbert A. Simon

Business & Money

Free Press

Dj has some edge wear, a 1" closed tear at upper spine. Book has sharp corners. Previous owner's name stamped on ffep. Pages are all very clean and unmarked. Ships fast from California.

Simon: Sciences of the Artificial (Clo

MIT Press]

Now highly expanded in length and in the sweep of its intellectual design—the range of its consideration of social and economic systems has been extended and there is new material on human psychology—this book has been highly regarded and widely referenced since its publication in 1969. In that year a review in Science stated that "Herbert Simon is one of the leaders in the present development of a science of complex information processing. His contributions have been seminal in several different fields, yet always unified in their attempt to develop a precise and adequate theory of complex systems, whether social, political, or economic organizations or thinking, feeling, creating brains and computer-programmed models. The Sciences of the Artificial is a thoughtful synthesis of Simon's conception of complexity—how it arises, how it can be studied by a scientist, and how it can be coped with, adapted to, and understood by intelligent entities such as human beings and 'artificial intelligence' programs.... It is authoritative and at the same time provocative—a rare combination." "Artificial" is used in a very specific sense in this book: to denote systems that have a given form and behavior only because they adapt (or are adapted), in reference to goals or purposes, to their environment. Thus both man-made artifacts and man himself, in terms of behavior, are artificial. This edition contains three entirely new chapters—"Economic Rationality: Adaptive Artifice," "Remembering and Learning: Memory as External Environment," and "Social Planning: Designing the Evolving Artifact"—which have been interspersed among the original four: "Understanding the Natural and the Artificial Worlds," "The Psychology of Thinking: Embedding Artifice in Nature," "The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial," and "The Architecture of Complexity."

The Sciences of the Artificial, 2nd Edition

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

The MIT Press

Cognitive Psychology; Collected works; Human information processing; Information theory; Non-Fiction; Psychology; Thought and thinking; Thought processes

Models of Thought, Volume 2

Yale University Press

This book provides the original and definitive treatments of such fundamental concepts as bounded rationality, attention focus, and problem solving.

Organizations,

James G. March

Management & Leadership

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Protocol Analysis: Verbal Reports as Data

K. Anders Ericsson

Bradford Book

Cognition: Thinking and Intelligence Behind Human Behavior (Chinese Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Renmin University of China Press

We respect Herbert A. Simon as an established leader of empirical and logical analysis in the human sciences while we happily think of him as also the loner; of course he works with many colleagues but none can match him. He has been writing fruitfully and steadily for four decades in many fields, among them psychology, logic, decision theory, economics, computer science, management, production engineering, information and control theory, operations research, confirmation theory, and we must have omitted several. With all of them, he is at once the technical scientist and the philosophical critic and analyst. When writing of decisions and actions, he is at the interface of philosophy of science, decision theory, philosophy of the specific social sciences, and inventory theory (itself, for him, at the interface of economic theory, production engineering and information theory). When writing on causality, he is at the interface of methodology, metaphysics, logic and philosophy of physics, systems theory, and so on. Not that the interdisciplinary is his orthodoxy; we are delighted that he has chosen to include in this book both his early and little-appreciated treatment of straightforward philosophy of physics - the axioms of Newtonian mechanics, and also his fine papers on pure confirmation theory.

Models of Discovery: and Other Topics in the Methods of Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)

Science & Math

Mathematics

Springer

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