This volume illustrates the broad range of research based on the garbage can model of organizational choice. This research varies with respect to decision making characteristics addressed, model extensions and integrations proposed, and organizational outcomes of interest. It suggests that the garbage can model is alive and kicking at forty.

List of Contributors. Advisory Board. The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty. “A Garbage Can Model” At Forty: A Solution that Still Attracts Problems. Turn-Taking and Geopolitics in the Making of Decisions. Mechanisms Generating Context-Dependent Choices. Chance, Preferences, and Predictions in Garbage Can Theory. Garbage Can Ecologies: An Agent-Based Exploration. Aspects of Garbage Can Processes: Temporal Order and the Role of Expediting. Garbage Can in the Lab. Team Formation in the Garbage Can. Modeling Formal and Informal Ties Within an Organization: A Multiple Model Integration. Situated Attention, Loose and Tight Coupling, and the Garbage Can Model. Structure, Skill, and Ambition in Organizational Problem Solving. From the Ivy Tower to the C-suite: Garbage Can Processes and Corporate Strategic Decision Making. Organized Anarchies and the Network Dynamics of Decision Opportunities in an Open Source Software Project. Organizational Decision Mechanisms in an Architectural Competition. Geopolitics and Garbage Cans: Understanding the Essence of Decision Making in an Interdisciplinary and Psycho-Cultural Perspective. The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty. Research in the sociology of organizations. Research in the sociology of organizations. Copyright page.