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Abstract. This chapter discusses “The Science of Muddling Through”, a 1959 paper by Charles E. Lindblom that has influenced several generations of thinking about public policy decision-making in complex situations such as government and bureaucracy. The focus of Lindblom’s paper is on incrementalism, which he originally developed in the ...
Lindblom was one of the early developers and advocates of the theory of incrementalism in policy and decision-making. That view (also called gradualism) takes a "baby-steps," "muddling through," or "Echternach-theory" approach to decision-making processes.
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THE SCIENCE OF "MUDDLING THROUGH" 81 much neglected in the literature. This might be described as the method of successive lim-ited comparisons. I will contrast it with the first approach, which might be called the rational-comprehensive method.3 More impressionis-tically and briefly-and therefore generally used in this article-they could be ...
Nov 28, 2021 · Thus, by muddling through in decision-making, boundedly rational managers are in a position to bring about radical change—in an orderly manner—under high complexity. We thus establish Lindblom’s conjecture regarding the efficacy of muddling through under high complexity on a firm theoretical basis. Lindblom’s work can no longer be ...
- Sai Yayavaram, Sasanka Sekhar Chanda
- 2021
Jan 1, 2016 · Changes in organizations come about through incremental change rather than revolutionary change. Decision makers within organizations make decisions from an evolutionary perspective, muddling through decisions in a way that minimizes analysis.
Charles Lindblom's "The Science of 'Muddling Through'" looked critically at synoptic decision making and introduced a new strategy, disjointed incrementalism, into the social science. at Stanford University in 1979. He is now. In an insightful analysis, Professor Jonathan Bendor examines Lindblom's classic article and the.
Jun 1, 2012 · A variety of topics, much greater than anticipated, came through and they are all about reality in decision-making. Behind each decision, the authors see the systematic muddling that Professor Lindblom saw in real decisions. That is what Professor Lindblom delivered to us—reality in decision-making. 2. Lindblom and theory
