Garbage can model of decision making | Organizational decision making [Game of theories #20]

[Game of Theories: #20] The garbage can model of decision making was first introduced in 1972 in the seminal article titled “A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice” by Michael Cohen, James March, and Johan Olsen. The article was published in the Administrative Science Quarterly. The garbage can model emerged to challenge the highly structured conceptualizations of organizational decision making within the traditional rational-choice models that dominated the management field at the beginning of the 1970s. The traditional theories of decision making, management, and organization at that point took as a fact the existence of well-defined goals, problems, solutions, as well as a substantial participation of the members in organizational decision making. But those assumptions often do not hold. By exploring decision making in a highly ambiguous environment, the garbage can model made a significant contribution to the organizational decision theory.

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