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Organisations

An annotated collection of 1 books on organisations, spanning 1947. Featuring works by Herbert A. Simon — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

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

Herbert A. Simon, 1947 · Macmillan (4th edition, The Free Press, 1997)

Simon's 1947 book is one of the foundational texts of modern management theory — the argument that real organisations make decisions through bounded rationality rather than the idealised comprehensive rationality of clas…