Herbert Simon disseminated his bounded rationality approach in his vast academic production. The recognition of the complex environment and the cognitive limits led him to study about the use of heuristics in the decision-making. Around this idea, a new path to the study of human decisions has...

Nesse artigo são analisados os microfundamentos de Friedrich A. Hayek e Herbert A. Simon no que se refere às suas propostas epistemológicas, procurando desenvolver uma reflexão acerca da natureza e da forma do conhecimento condizente com uma abordagem institucionalista de caráter...

This paper discusses the use of Herbert Simon's concept of bounded rationality in the evolutionary firm of Nelson and Winter. The assumption of bounded rationality (an individual behavior) in a collective context of firm could require some justification. We suggest that the adoption of complex...