Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments: A Data-Driven Approach

Book 图书名称：Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments: A Data-Driven Approach
Author 作者： Joan-Josep Vallbé
Publisher 出版社：  Springer Netherlands
Page 页数： 232
Publishing Date 出版时间： Oct 2014                     
Language 语言：English
Size 大小：3.3 MB
Format 格式：pdf
ISBN:  978-94-017-9426-8, 978-94-017-9427-5

This book deals with the theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications of bounded rationality in the operation of institutions. It focuses on decisions made under uncertainty, and presents a reliable strategy of knowledge acquisition for the design and implementation of decision-support systems. Based on the distinction between the inner and outer environment of decisions, the book explores both the cognitive mechanisms at work when actors decide, and the institutional mechanisms existing among and within organizations that make decisions fairly predictable.

While a great deal of work has been done on how organizations act as patterns of events for (boundedly) rational decisions, less effort has been devoted to study under which circumstances organizations cease to act as such reliable mechanisms. Through an empirical strategy on open-ended response data from a survey among junior judges, the work pursues two main goals. The first one is to explore the limits of “institutional rationality” of the Spanish lower courts on-call service, an optimal scenario to observe decision-making under uncertainty. The second aim is to achieve a better understanding of the kind of uncertainty under which inexperienced decision-makers work. This entails exploring the demands imposed by problems and the knowledge needed to deal with them, making this book also a study on expertise achievement in institutional environments.

This book combines standard multivariate statistical methods with machine learning techniques such as multidimensional scaling and topic models, treating text as data. Doing so, the book contributes to the collaboration between empirical social scientific approaches and the community of scientists that provide the set of tools and methods to make sense of the fastest growing resource of our time: data.

== Table of contents ==
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Decisions and Organizations....Pages 13-69
Bounded Rationality and Organizations....Pages 71-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Empirical Context....Pages 119-154
Representing Organizational Uncertainty....Pages 155-211
Conclusions and Further Work....Pages 213-227
Back Matter....Pages 229-232

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