decision making in business
type: Concept
narrower: garbage can model

organizational cognition, change, and communication
type: Concept
narrower: garbage can model

concepts
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member: garbage can model

garbage can model
definition: The phrase garbage can is frequently used to characterize organizational decision processes, usually as an attribution of nonstandard, chaotic, surprising, or disrupted patterns of attention. The source of the phrase is the 1972 article in which Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen suggested that decisions to a large extent are produced by temporal linkages: the arrival and departure times of independent, exogenous streams of problems, solutions, decision makers, and choice opportunities. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Garbage Can Model]
broader: organizational cognition, change, and communication
broader: decision making in business
type: Concept