We can use the theoretical perspectives of organizations as paradigms, decision process theories and administrative rationality, and institutionalization theory to understand the emergent behavior.
If we take the trouble to understand that rationality, we might have a better chance of figuring out what its adherents will do next and preventing it.
The article concludes by suggesting that one must examine both the political rationality and technical rationality underlying government performance measurement systems so as to understand their values and limitations.
It's a finger in the air exercise during the early stage, but it's one we like to see in order to understand your business thinking, rationality and ambition.
To work on a historic palace of such great importance means, in the first instance, to understand the building, its internal rationality and constructive logics, but above all to prompt a new identity.
6 7 In his treatise on how to 'make social science matter,' Bent Flyvbjerg notes that knowledge of power relations in any given context is necessary to understand what is taken to be rational and right, and moreover that rationality (eg, research 'evidence') can prevail only if it takes power into account.
The epistemic program in game theory demonstrates that there are many ways to understand what exactly it means to assume that there is "common knowledge/belief of rationality" in a game situation.
Critics [ 61, 66- 68] have shown that to understand policy-making, account had to be taken of the uncertainty inherent in all decision-making, the limited rationality of the agents, the power relations in social systems and the ideological biases influencing the decision-makers (see Table 6).
This paper insists on logic and rationality, as well as open-minded thoughtfulness, in evaluating the scientific implications of a large body of interdisciplinary evidence that health researchers might not otherwise assemble to understand homeopathic remedies.
Because of these, we can see more clearly how rule following or algorithmic reasoning lost its connection with human reasoning even to the extent that rationality could be understood to characterize not only nonhuman activities but also activities located elsewhere than in a thinking mind, for example, in the genes of evolutionary biology.
