Administrative Behavior.

SIMON, Herbert.

Item Number: 108119

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957.

Early printing of the second edition of Herbert Simon’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With a foreword by Chester I. Barnard.

In Administrative Behavior, Herbert A. Simon applies his pioneering theory of human choice and administrative decision-making to concrete organizational problems. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the book's original publication, Professor Simon enhances his timeless observations on the human decision-making process with commentaries examining new facets of organizational behavior. Investigating the impact of changing social values and modem technology on the operation of organizations, the new ideas featured in this revised edition update a book that has become a worldwide classic. Named by Public Administration Review as "Book of the Half Century," Administrative Behavior is considered one of the most influential books on social science thinking, and was referred to by the Nobel Committee as "epoch-making."