Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ393513
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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The Lid on the Garbage Can: Institutional Constraints on Decision Making in the Technical Core of College-Text Publishers.
Levitt, Barbara; Nass, Clifford
Administrative Science Quarterly, v34 n2 p190-207 Jun 1989
Integrates the garbage can model of organizational choice with institutional theory. Explains how various environmental aspects yield different consequences for the decision and access structures of college textbook publishers than might be expected from the garbage can decision world they inhabit. Includes 42 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Higher Education, Organizational Theories, Physics, Sociology, Textbook Publication
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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