Herbert A. Simon

From the Founding FditorWelcome to issue 2 of Reflections. We have learned a great deal in launching a new journal and, hopefully, you will see in each successive issue evidence of our own learning.We all know that start-ups reveal errors of various sorts no matter how hard one tries to avoid them...

REFACEThe invitation to deliver the Karl Taylor Compton lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the spring of 1968 provided me with a welcome opportunity to make explicit and to develop at some length a thesis that has been central to much of my research, at first in organization...