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Organizational Decisions in the Lab

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Bounded rationality is a label that covers the most important advancements of Herbert Simon’s scientific production. His fundamental contributions to cognitive psychology and to the theory of problem-solving were developed jointly each being nurtured by the discoveries emanating from the other discipline. I will briefly review some steps on the path to the creation of the theory of bounded rationality in order to introduce the issue of organizational decision-making and associated laboratory experiments.

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  1. Massimo Egidi
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  1. San Diego State University, USA

    Roger Frantz (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. The University of British Columbia, Canada

    Leslie Marsh (Senior Research Associate) (Senior Research Associate)

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Egidi, M. (2016). Organizational Decisions in the Lab. In: Frantz, R., Marsh, L. (eds) Minds, Models and Milieux. Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137442505_11

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