Introduction

This is a supplement to episode 85, where we explore the classic book, organizations by james march and herbert simon. In the late 19 fifties, organizations represented a clarion call for research under a whole new paradime of thinking about organizations. March and simon proposed more than just an alternative view, but also presented a massive conceptual framework with over 200 variables drawn from existing literature at the time. They then established a set of axioms and propositions to propose how these variables all related to another. This was intended to spur further research, particularly quantitative research. The first two focus on this alternative view of organizations, contrasting it with notions of so called classic organization theory such