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Laboratory Experimentation with Organizations (Weick, 1965)

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Karl E. Weick

In J. G. March (Ed.), Handbook of Organizations: 194-260. Chicago: Rand McNally

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p.194 Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled (Kaplan, 1964, p. 28).

p.241 Roberts, Arth, and Bush (1959) defined games in the following way: "A game is defined as a recreational activity characterized by: (1) organized play, (2) competition, (3) two or more sides, (4) criteria for determining the winner, and (5) agreed-upon rules" (p. 597).

p.242 games, especially games of strategy (Roberts, Arth, & Bush, 1959), serve as models of social interaction

p.253 "The process of doing research... is a rather informal, often illogical and sometimes messy-looking affair. It includes a great deal of floundering around in the empirical world" (Garner, Hunt, & Taylor, 1959).