Team theory, garbage cans and real organizations: some history and prospects of economic research on decision‐making in organizations

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Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “Adaptation occurs as units evolve (or “morph”; Rindova & Kotha, 2001) and as corporate executives patch (or “re-architect”) their line of business portfolios by creating newdivisions (Gilbert, 2005), by shifting product market charters from one business unit to another (Galunic&Eisenhardt, 2001), an”
Perspective - Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School's Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future (2007, background): “…observation when one notes the active line of work in economics in the last two decades, starting with early efforts at agency theoretic models (cf. Holmstrom 1979) to recent efforts at defining a subfield of personnel economics (Lazear and Rosen 1981) and organizational economics (Gibbons 2002).”
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects (2012, background): “Thus, the organizational economics literature provides a theory of the “second-best”, the optimum outcome constrained by the limits of incentive alignment (Gibbons, 2003 ).”
Four formal(izable) theories of the firm (2005, unknown): “Because the unremarked corollary involves a classic sample-selection argument, I have elsewhere titled this figure “Coase (1937) Meets Heckman (1976)” (Gibbons, 2003: 757).”