CHAPTER 9
James March: Leadership and Life
James March is the Jack Steele Parker Professor Emeritus of International Management at Stanford University. Best known professionally for his writings on decision-making and organizations, he is a true polymath, being elected to the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the National Academy of Education, as well as several overseas academies.
He established his reputation with two books written early in his career—Organizations, co-authored with Herbert Simon in 1958, and A Behavioral Theory of Firms, co-authored with Richard Cyert in 1963—which are considered classics in organizational ...
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