The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence : Decisions and Learning in Organizations Book

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Decisions in Organizations	11
2	Understanding How Decisions Happen in Organizations	13
3	Continuity and Change in Theories of Organizational Action	39
4	Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions	52
Pt. II	Learning in Organizations	73
5	Organizational Learning	75
6	The Evolution of Evolution	100
7	Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning	114
8	Learning from Samples of One or Fewer	137
9	Adaptive Coordination of a Learning Team	156
10	The Future, Disposable Organizations, and the Rigidities of Imagination	179
11	The Myopia of Learning	193
Pt. III	Risk Taking in Organizations	223
12	Wild Ideas: The Catechism of Heresy	225
13	Variable Risk Preferences and Adaptive Aspirations	229
14	Variable Risk Preferences and the Focus of Attention	251
15	Learning to Be Risk Averse	279
Pt. IV	The Giving and Taking of Advice	305
16	Model Bias in Social Action	307
17	Organizational Consultants and Organizational Research	325
18	Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable	338
19	Science, Politics, and Mrs. Gruenberg	355
20	Education and the Pursuit of Optimism	363
21	A Scholar's Quest	376
	Index	380