Firms as Systems of Interdependent Choices
探讨企业内相互依赖的选择如何随时间演化、组织设计如何影响企业达成一致且高效的选择、以及决策者认知局限的后果，适合对组织与管理理论感兴趣的学者。
abstract Managers within firms have to make choices along a large number of dimensions; for instance, how to configure activities involving manufacturing and marketing, and which organizational design to employ. Since these choices interact with each other, firms can be conceived of as systems of interdependent choices. In this article, I discuss research that addresses three questions that naturally arise in this context. First, how do such systems evolve over time? Second, what role does organizational design play in whether a firm will arrive at a consistent and high‐performing set of choices? Third, what are the consequences of cognitive limitations by decision makers when faced with such complex systems? The article concludes by sketching out possible future directions of research in this domain.