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... > social science subjects > business and management > organization studies > organization studies encyc > organizational cognition, change, and communication > garbage can model
social science subjects > business and management > management theory > decision making in business > garbage can model

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garbage can model  

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  • 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]

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