Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Decision as Institution -- Decision, the Individual, and the Organization -- Theories of Decision -- The Consequences of Decision -- 2. Deciding for Responsibility and Legitimation: Alternative Interpretations of Organizational Decision-Making -- Decisions as Choices or Mobilizers -- Decision-Making as Responsibility Allocation -- Implications for Decision-Makers -- Implications for Action -- Decisions as Legitimation -- The Four Roles of Decision -- 3. The Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality: Decisions, Ideologies, and Organizational Actions -- The Decision-Making Perspective and Irrationality -- Decisions as Initiators of Actions -- Ideologies that Facilitate Actions -- Ideological Shifts that Foster Radical Changes -- Conclusions -- 4. Implementing Reforms -- The New SJ -- The Simplicity of Reforms and the Complexity of Reality -- Presentation and Results -- Implementing Reforms: A Model -- 5. Responsibility as an Impediment to Influence-The Case of Budgeting -- Budgeting -- Budgeting Under Stagnation -- Roles and Actors in the Budget Process -- The Allocation of Responsibility -- Control-Supply and Demand -- Budgeting as an Instrument for Financing -- 6. Industrial Policy as Implementation or Legitimation -- Society as Hierarchy -- Can the State Control Industry? -- The Will to Control-Implementation or Legitimation? -- PLACE-Implementation Policy or Legitimation Policy? -- A Summary -- 7. Organized Hypocrisy -- Hypocrisy Revisited -- Talk as Output-How Hypocrisy Works -- Conflicting Demands-How Hypocrisy Arises -- Meta-Hypocrisy -- Stable and Unstable Hypocrisy -- Evaluating Hypocrisy -- 8. Ideas and Actions: Justification and Hypocrisy as Alternatives to Control -- The Problem of Consistency: What Can Be Said But Not Done And What Can Be Done But Not Said.

Ideas and Action-The Problem of Control -- Combining Consistency and Control-The Problem of Time -- Solutions-Justification and Hypocrisy -- The Practical Effects of Impractical Models -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.