Simon on Problem-Solving : Implications for New Organizational Forms

Two of Herbert Simon's best-known papers are quot;The Architecture of Complexityquot; and quot;The Structure of Ill-Structured Problems.quot; We discuss the neglected links between these two papers, highlighting the role of decomposition in the context of problems on which constraints have been imposed as a general approach to problem solving. We apply these Simonian ideas to organizational issues, specifically new organizational forms. Specifically, Simonian ideas allow us to develop a morphology of new organizational forms and to point to some design problems that characterize these forms