ABSTRACT
An organization is a collection of choices looking for problems, issues and feelings looking for decision situations in which they might be aired, solutions looking for issues to which they might be the answers, and decision makers looking for work. James March is Emeritus Professor of International Management at Stanford University, California, his breadth of mind being indicated by his additional links with the departments of Political Science and of Sociology. His interests have long focused upon decision making in organizations, beginning with his early work at Carnegie Mellon University. Victor Vroom has been involved for many years in research, teaching and consulting on the psychological analysis of behaviour in organizations. The distinctly French view of organizations contributed by Michel Crozier arises both from his French birth and experience and from the many periods he has spent in the United States (US). These periods away from France give him a perspective on his own society.
