Rational Decision Making as Performative Praxis: Explaining Rationality'sÉternel Retour
针对理性在组织中持续存在的现象，提出将理性决策视为表演性实践活动，通过三个机制（理性常规化、理性工程化、理性商品化）解释组织如何生产理性决策，对组织理论和管理实践有启发。
Organizational theorists built their knowledge of decision making through a progressive critique of rational choice theory. Their positioning towards rationality, however, is at odds with the observation of rationality persistence in organizational life. This paper addresses this paradox. It proposes a new perspective on rationality that allows the theorizing of the production of rational decisions by organizations. To account for rationality's éternel retour, we approach rational decision making as performative praxis—a set of activities that contributes to turning rational choice theory into social reality. We develop a performative praxis framework that explains how theory, actors, and tools together produce rationality within organizations through three mechanisms: rationality conventionalization, rationality engineering, and rationality commodification. This framework offers new avenues of research on rational decision making and points to the factors that underlie the manufacture of rationality in organizations.