Shrödinger's grand theme shortchanged

Herbert Simon’s Grand Theme in the Economics of Organization: “Much Cited and Little Used”

Herbert Simon was the apostle of bounded rationality. He very often illustrated bounded rationality in the context of the theory of the firm, and was, of course, a major contributor to organizational theory. However, in spite of Simon’s efforts, I argue that bounded rationality has been only incompletely absorbed in the economics of organization, is little used for substantive purposes, and mos...

Grand challenges: Grand opportunities

This document is intended to stimulate debate and discussion in preparation of the Escience Scoping Study Expert Seminar for archaeology and the historic environment. It is a tentative, partial and therefore controversial delineation of the challenges and opportunities which the E-science agenda presents archaeologists and the historic environment sector. It proposes areas of specific activity ...

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CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS AND ITS IMPACT ON CUSTOMER RETENTION Economic literature has been focusing frequently on the impact of systematic coordination of all communication instmments, coming to the result that well managed corporate communications may strengthen return on sales. The justification of this assumption is the concept of market focused management, i.e. the strict orientation of all...