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On organizing: an interview with James G. March

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  • Jiyang Dong

    (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

  • James G. March

    (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

  • Maciej Workiewicz

    (ESSEC Business School)

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In this interview with Professor James G. March, we focused on the key insights stemming from his work, with a special emphasis on the lessons for organization science and organization design. We discussed the major ideas and theories that he and his coauthors generated over the several decades as well as asked him about his views on the role of management research and business academia in general. The interview was conducted in September 2013 in Stanford, CA, and updated in August 2017 with a postscript from James G. March directed to the organization design community.

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  • Jiyang Dong & James G. March & Maciej Workiewicz, 2017. "On organizing: an interview with James G. March," Journal of Organization Design, Springer;Organizational Design Community, vol. 6(1), pages 1-19, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jorgde:v:6:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1186_s41469-017-0024-z
    DOI: 10.1186/s41469-017-0024-z
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    7. James G. March, 1978. "Bounded Rationality, Ambiguity, and the Engineering of Choice," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 9(2), pages 587-608, Autumn.
    8. Mie Augier & James G. March & Andrew W. Marshall, 2015. "Perspective—The Flaring of Intellectual Outliers: An Organizational Interpretation of the Generation of Novelty in the RAND Corporation," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 26(4), pages 1140-1161, August.
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