Bounded rationality has been an important theme throughout the history of the theory of organizations, because it explains the sharing of information processing tasks and the existence of administrative staffs that coordinate large organizations. This article broadly surveys the theories of organizations that model such bounded rationality and decentralized information processing. Author's address:
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