Mechanisms Generating Context-Dependent Choices
The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty
ISBN: 978-1-78052-712-3, eISBN: 978-1-78052-713-0
Publication date: 26 October 2012
Abstract
The garbage can model showed that what appears to be irrational and unpredictable choices can be explained by processes that regulate attention allocation and the availability of choice alternatives. Because attention to alternatives fluctuates, the model generates context-dependent choices: evaluations of alternatives depend on the mix of other alternatives considered. I re-examine the mechanisms by which fluctuating attention can cause context-dependent choices. Using insights from behavioral decision theory I demonstrate how adding fluctuating attention to a well-known model of organizational decision making generates context-dependent choices of a kind that could not be explained by a maximizing process.
Citation
Denrell, J. (2012), "Mechanisms Generating Context-Dependent Choices", Lomi, A. and Harrison, J.R. (Ed.) The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 36), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 65-97. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)0000036007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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