A new development of the garbage can model for exploring modern business organizations

Author

Matsumura, Ryohei ; Kijima, Kyoichi ; Nakano, Bumpei ; Inohara, Takehiro

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Decision Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1024

Abstract

This paper proposes a new behavioral model of organizations based on garbage can model proposed by Cohen, March and Olsen (CMO) in 1972. It explains the choice processes of modern business organizations. From the analysis, the following results are obtained: 1) though CMO noted tight organizations like a bureaucrat is always competent in problem solving, there are some cases in which loose organizations are more competent; and 2) though CMO noted when there are many difficult problems the organizational choice processes do not function well, there are some cases in which difficult problems motivate the members to produce useful knowledge

Keywords

management; management science; CMO model; business organizations; decision making model; garbage can model; problem solving; Computer simulation; Decision making; Educational institutions; Humans; Knowledge management; Modems; Organizational aspects; Problem-solving; Radio access networks; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.815695

Filename

815695