Michael D. Cohen
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William D. Hamilton Collegiate
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Phone: (734) 647-8027 Fax: (734) 764-2475 E-Mail: m d c @ u m i c h . e d u |
Education
University of California, Irvine - 1972 Ph.D., Social Science
Stanford University - 1966 B.A., History
Research Interests
Organizational learning and routines and their interactions with information
technology. Research using laboratory studies, field studies, and computational
models. Major recent application area: handoffs in hospitals.
Classes Recently Taught
The Information in Social Systems: Collections, Flows, and Processing, SI 500 (co-taught 2007 with Gary Olson and Jeff MacKie-Mason)
The ICOS Seminar (Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies)
Collections and Social Systems (co-taught with Margaret Hedstrom, David Wallace, and Paul Edwards, 1998 (twice), 1999, 2000, 2002-2006)
Practical Engagement Workshop on Information Technology in Small Nonprofit Organizations (most years since 1982)
"Information and Organization (doctoral seminar)"
"The Future of Organization in the Age of Information" (co-taught with George Furnas)
"Computers in Organizations"
"Information Technology and Reengineering"
"Computer Simulation of Social Systems"
Selected Publications
Cohen, Michael D. and James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, "A Garbage Can
Model of Organizational Choice", Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 17, 1972, pp 1-25.
Michael D. Cohen and James G. March, Leadership and Ambiguity: The
American College Presidency, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974; 2nd edition
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1986. (Chinese edition 2006.)
Cohen, Michael D., "The Power of Parallel Thinking", Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization, volume
2, 1982, pp 285--306.
Cohen, Michael D. and Robert Axelrod,"Coping with Complexity: The
Adaptive Value of Changing Utilities", American Economic Review, Volume 74, Number 1, Mar. 1984, pp 30-42.
Cohen, Michael D. and Paul Bacdayan, "Organizational Routines are
Stored as Procedural Memory: Evidence from a Laboratory Study", Organization
Science, Dec. 1994.
Cohen, Michael and Lee Sproull, "Organizational Learning: Papers in Honor of (and by) James G. March", special issue of Organization Science, Volume 2, 1991. (Reprinted, with additions and a new introduction, by Sage Publications, November, 1995. Publisher information on the book is available by clicking here.)
Robert Axtell, Robert Axelrod, Joshua M. Epstein, and Michael D. Cohen,
"Aligning Simulation Models: A Case Study and Results", Santa Fe
Institute Working Paper 95-07-65, July
1995. [ abstract]
[
postscript] Also published in Computational and Mathematical
Organization Theory, volume 1, number 2,
February, 1996, pp. 123-141.
Michael D. Cohen, Roger Burkhart, Giovanni Dosi, Massimo Egidi, Luigi
Marengo, Massimo Warglien, and Sidney Winter, with comments by Benjamin Coriat,
"Routines and Other Recurring Action Patterns of Organizations:
Contemporary Research Issues", Santa Fe Institute Working Paper
95-11-101, November 1995. [
pdf ] [postscript]
Also published in Industrial and Corporate Change, volume 5, number 3, 1996, pp. 653-698.
Michael Cohen, "Preface to the Special Issue on Complexity", Organization
Science, #10(3), May-June 1999.
Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, Harnessing Complexity:
Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier, Free Press,
2000. (Editions in French, 2001,
and Japanese, 2003.)
Cohen, Michael, Rick L. Riolo and
Robert Axelrod, "The Role of Social Structure in the Maintenance of
Cooperative Regimes," Rationality and Society, 13(1),
2001, pp.5-32.
Riolo, Rick L., Michael D. Cohen
and Robert Axelrod, "Evolution of Cooperation without Reciprocity," Nature, 414, 441-443, (22 Nov 2001).
Michael D. Cohen, Giovanni Dosi,
Daniel Levinthal, and Mie Augier, "Editor’s Introduction," for
"Institutions and Organizations, a Special Issue in Honor of James
March,"Industrial and Corporate Change (Fall 2003).
Michael D. Cohen, Rick L. Riolo
and Robert Axelrod, "Must there be human genes specific to prosocial
behavior?," a response to Henrich, Joseph, "Cultural Group
Selection…", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 53, 49-51, (2004).
“Tags, Interaction
Patterns and the Evolution of Cooperation” with Rick L. Riolo and Robert
Axelrod, in Perspectives on Adaptation, Evolution and Complex Adaptive
Systems, M. Mitchell,
L. Booker, S. Forrest, R. Riolo (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005.
“What’s Different is Routine”, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 15, number 2, 2006: 387-390. (Comments on ‘Toward a Neo-Schumpeterian Theory of the Firm’ by Sidney Winter.) permanent URL: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/dtl001?ijkey=igYTnlI31PzzfkK&keytype=ref
“Standardized Observations of Cross-Cover Events in Hospitalized Patients: What goes “bump” in the night?” Poster, Society of Hospital Medicine National Conference, Washington D.C., May 2006. (With Wesorick D.W., Fleming A., Hsu R., Kim C., Lee F., Lim S., Mangrulkar R., Parekh V., Thompson M., Yakel E., Kramer M.)
“Administrative Behavior: laying the foundations for Cyert and March.” Organization Science, Vol. 18, No. 3, May-June 2007, pp. 503-506. DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0275 .
Beyond Boundedly Rational Individuals: Remarks on “Behavioral Organizational Economics”, in Behavioral Economics and Its Applications: Proceedings of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation 50th Anniversary Conference, Peter Diamond & Hannu Vartiainen (eds.), Princeton University Press, Princeton New Jersey. (2007)
“Organizational Character: on the regeneration of Camp Poplar Grove”, with Jeremy P. Birnholtz and Susannah Hoch, Organization Science, vol 18, no 2, pp. 315-332, 2007. DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0248 .
“The Garbage Can Model”, entry in the International
Encyclopedia of Organization Studies,
Stewart Clegg and James R. Bailey, (eds), Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications,
2007. (With James G. March and Johan P. Olsen.) ISBN: 9781412915151 .
“Reading Dewey: reflections on the study of routine”, Organization Studies, 2007, 28: 773-786. DOI: 10.1177/0170840606077620 .
"Learning with Regret" Science 319: 1052, 22Feb08 . Summary or Full Text DOI: 10.1126/science.1155477 .
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