Bounded Rationality, Ambiguity, and the Engineering of Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23351663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James G March (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 587 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Bell Journal of Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-915X • E-ISSN: 2326-3032 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3003600 |
| OpenAlex | W4242012000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 239 |
Ambiguity · Bounded function · Bounded rationality · Economics · Epistemology · Mathematical analysis · Mathematical economics · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Rationality · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Mathematics · Philosophy
Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Policy Analysis
Cultural Traditions and the Treatment of Freeriders
La autonomía de las tradiciones experimentales como problema epistemológico
Co-engineering Participatory Water Management Processes
A good man but a bad wizard. About the limits and future of transparency of democratic governments
Organizaciones y Problemas Sociales. Una aproximación sistémica
The effect of environmental disorderliness on variety seeking behavior and its mechanism
Risk Analysis and Decision Processes
Representação, Deliberação e estudos legislativos
Inter-rationality; Modeling of bounded rationality in open innovation dynamics
Situational and Attitudinal Explanations of Police Behavior
Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically
Heuristic Decision Making
The Institutions of Programmatic Action
Economics (Micro, Macro Theory)
Cognitive Approaches to Judgment and Decision Making
International Organizations and the Management of Regime Complexity
The Effect of Forced Choice on Choice
Attention and choice
Consumer variety-seeking among goods and services
Can human irrationality be experimentally demonstrated?
Artificial Intelligence in Organizations
How management style moderates the relationship between abusive supervision and workplace deviance
Emotion, cognition, and decision making
Choosing versus rejecting
Rationality
Predicting Hunger
Defining, Conceptualizing, and Measuring Fidelity of Implementation and Its Relationship to Outcomes in K–12 Curriculum Intervention Research
Between Hope and Fear
Designing Choice Sets for Stated Preference Methods
Friends or Strangers? Firm-Specific Uncertainty, Market Uncertainty, and Network Partner Selection
Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion.
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Anarchy is What States Make of it
Ideas and actions
Subsidiary development of new technologies
Engaging Citizens in Government Contracting
Inducing compensatory information processing through decision aids that facilitate effort reduction
Governing wickedness in megaprojects
Seeing Through the Logical Framework
Making of Higher Education Preferences
The Social Context of Decisions
Decision Theory as Practice
From Spectators to Co‐Managers
The creative cosmos beyond humans
Simulating Complex Urban Behaviours With AI
Prosecutor Decision-Making Following Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentencing Reform
Valuation tools and politicians’ willingness to sell public real estate
Normative and behavioural economics
From Trust to Corporate Agency
Group Preference Construction with Attitudinal Consensus Building Based on Uncertain Preference Disaggregation Analysis
Rethinking targeting strategies for SMEs
Systemtheoretische Perspektiven auf Organisationen – Luhmanns bekannte und unbekannte Schriften zur Organisation
Aborder la règle en sociologue des organisations
Organisation des événements sportifs de nature et sécurité
Can Ethical Texts Achieve Clarity? Whistleblowing Texts in the UK Banking Sector and the Ethical Clarity Framework
Holding back the damage
Firm digitalization as strategic response
The Dynamics of Inferential Interpretation in Experiential Learning
Avoiding Corporate Greenwashing? Sustainability Silence Narratives in the Agri‐Food Industry
Cyprus
The feeling of comfort in residential settings II
Policy Spandrels
Six decades of nuclear fuel cycle administration in Japan
Fantasy, values, and identity in biofuel innovation
Frame ambiguity in policy controversies
Uncertainty, institutions and regulatory responses to emerging technologies
Civil Society and Civic Engagement
Implications of smart decision-making and heuristics for production theory and material welfare
Come Together, Right Now
Explaining the Gaps between Mandate and Performance
Education reform in the twenty-first century
How to achieve an institutional change towards circular economy? A comparative case study on the EU and China
Meanings of military ranks
Cultural Heritage in China
Governing the transition to a biofuels economy in the US and EU
Dealing with the Dark Side of Policy-Making
Knowledge Infrastructure, Innovation Dynamics, and Knowledge Creation/Diffusion/Accumulation Processes
Émergence Et Légitimité Des Institutions, Coordination Économique Et Nature De La Rationalité Des Agents
Explaining Change
Peering into Transparency
Temporary and circular migration in the construction of European migration governance
Forms of Bounded Rationality
Policy Feedbacks” and Political Change
Using Spatial Analysis for Monitoring Fraud in a Public Delivery Program
Lay rationalism and inconsistency between predicted experience and decision
Innovative ideas desire earlier communication
How effortful decisions get enacted
Predicting a changing taste
The Compromise Effect in Choosing for Others
Technology characteristics, choice architecture, and farmer knowledge
The nature and implications of a process conception of rationality based on social learning
Creative discretion and the structure of context-responsive improvising
Knowledge-Dependent Models of Spatial Behavior
A concluding comment
Public Management
Dockets, Deals, and Sagas
Gender policy in development assistance
Decision Aiding, Not Dispute Resolution
Accountability and Debt Management
| Unique citing works | 239 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,31 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2026 (46) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 228 |