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  title info:
    title: Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments
    sub title: A Data-Driven Approach
  name:
    name part: Vallbé, Joan-Josep.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 232 p. 31 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book deals with the theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications of bounded rationality in the operation of institutions. It focuses on decisions made under uncertainty, and presents a reliable strategy of knowledge acquisition for the design and implementation of decision-support systems. Based on the distinction between the inner and outer environment of decisions, the book explores both the cognitive mechanisms at work when actors decide, and the institutional mechanisms existing among and within organizations that make decisions fairly predictable. While a great deal of work has been done on how organizations act as patterns of events for (boundedly) rational decisions, less effort has been devoted to study under which circumstances organizations cease to act as such reliable mechanisms. Through an empirical strategy on open-ended response data from a survey among junior judges, the work pursues two main goals. The first one is to explore the limits of “institutional rationality” of the Spanish lower courts on-call service, an optimal scenario to observe decision-making under uncertainty. The second aim is to achieve a better understanding of the kind of uncertainty under which inexperienced decision-makers work. This entails exploring the demands imposed by problems and the knowledge needed to deal with them, making this book also a study on expertise achievement in institutional environments. This book combines standard multivariate statistical methods with machine learning techniques such as multidimensional scaling and topic models, treating text as data. Doing so, the book contributes to the collaboration between empirical social scientific approaches and the community of scientists that provide the set of tools and methods to make sense of the fastest growing resource of our time: data.
  table of contents: Foreword; Pompeu Casanovas and Pablo Noriega -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Foundations -- 2 Decisions and organizations -- 3 Bounded rationality and organizations -- Part II Data Analysis -- 4 Empirical context -- 5 Representing organizational uncertainty.- 6 Conclusions and further work -- Index.
  note: by Joan-Josep Vallbé.
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Computers
  subject:
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: International law
  subject:
    topic: Intellectual property
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Public administration
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: Fundamentals of Law
  subject:
    topic: Public Administration
  subject:
    topic: Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law
  subject:
    topic: Legal Aspects of Computing
  classification: K4240-4343
  classification: K1401-1578.25
  classification: 343.099
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Law, Governance and Technology Series, 21
  identifier: 9789401794275
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9427-5
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    record creation date: 141015
    record change date: 20151204153334.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-9427-5