The Politics of the Behavioural Revolution in Organization Studies
通过福柯的“事件化”方法，揭示1950年代组织研究中行为科学兴起的条件，指出福特基金会与卡内基工业管理研究生院及西蒙、马奇等人的关系深嵌于冷战政治，反映了对社会主义和共产主义渗透的担忧，促成了功能主义和实证主义在该学科的制度化。
This article addresses the behavioural revolution in organization studies of the 1950s. It tries to unravel, via Foucaultian ‘eventalization’, the conditions that made the ‘behavioural sciences’ emerge at that historical juncture. I argue that the relationship of the Ford Foundation with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration and concomitantly with Herbert Simon, James March and others, was firmly embedded in the Cold War politics of the time. These relationships mirrored governmental, public policy, education and foundation concerns with socialism, as well as communist infiltration in the universities at a formative period in the development of organization and management studies, contributing to functionalism and positivism being institutionalized in these disciplines.