This article appears in Kyklos as part of a special symposium edited by Ravi K. Roy and Arthur T.... more This article appears in Kyklos as part of a special symposium edited by Ravi K. Roy and Arthur T. Denzau that has been assembled to reflect on the contribution of Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North's seminal work on "Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and institutions."
Public administrators often go about their business blind to how their actions both affect, and a... more Public administrators often go about their business blind to how their actions both affect, and are affected by, the activities and processes of agents operating outside their own organizations. In truth, no single agency or department operates in a vacuum or in isolation of other organizational entities. According to world‐renowned leadership and management expert, W. Edwards Deming, a given agency's ability to perform its duties effectively is the result of a myriad of interdependent processes and operations with other organizations. Consequently, effective leaders must develop an understanding of how the departments they oversee both influence, and are at the same time influenced by the outside agencies and organizations upon whom they mutually depend. 1) We draw jointly on W. Edwards Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK) framework and Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North's (1994) New Institutional Economics (NIE)‐based work on Shared Mental Models (SMM) to e...
Public administrators often go about their business blind to how their actions both affect, and a... more Public administrators often go about their business blind to how their actions both affect, and are affected by, the activities and processes of agents operating outside their own organizations. In truth, no single agency or department operates in a vacuum or in isolation of other organizational entities. According to world‐renowned leadership and management expert, W. Edwards Deming, a given agency's ability to perform its duties effectively is the result of a myriad of interdependent processes and operations with other organizations. Consequently, effective leaders must develop an understanding of how the departments they oversee both influence, and are at the same time influenced by the outside agencies and organizations upon whom they mutually depend. 1) We draw jointly on W. Edwards Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK) framework and Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North's (1994) New Institutional Economics (NIE)‐based work on Shared Mental Models (SMM) to explore why inter‐agency cooperation tends to be limited in ‘traditional’ organizational environments. 2) Drawing on Denzau and North's SMM, we then suggest how inter‐organizational communication and cooperation can be facilitated via two means of learning—training and experiential. 3) We then apply concepts from Denzau and North's SMM to suggest a modified model of the Nash equilibrium used in game theory. This model is then used to operationalize the learning path to Deming's approach to ‘systems thinking’ (SoPK.) 4) Finally, we provide a real‐world example to illustrate the modified model.
Abstract: As a part of an overall study of large-scale communications satellite systems for educa... more Abstract: As a part of an overall study of large-scale communications satellite systems for education, an estimate was made of the amount of money available for media-technology for the next five to fifteen years. Information was gathered on public educational expenditures ...
Roy, R, Denzau, A and Willett, T 2007,'Introduction: Neoliberalism as a shared mental model&... more Roy, R, Denzau, A and Willett, T 2007,'Introduction: Neoliberalism as a shared mental model'in Roy, Ravi K, Denzau, Arthur T and Willett, Thomas D.(ed.) Neoliberalism: national and regional experiments with global ideas, Routledge, London UK, pp. 3-13.
Abstract: Introduces the notion of spending limitations into an analytical framework in which gov... more Abstract: Introduces the notion of spending limitations into an analytical framework in which government possesses a form of monopoly power that results from imperfections in the agenda formation process. Journal availability: see EA 511 898.(Author/IRT)
... 99/09 Alston, Julian, James A. Chalfant and Nicholas E Piggott "Advertising and Cons... more ... 99/09 Alston, Julian, James A. Chalfant and Nicholas E Piggott "Advertising and Consumer Welfare", May 1999. 99/08 Wittwer, Glyn and Kym Anderson, Impact of Tax Reform on the Australian Wine Industry: a CGE Analysis, May 1999. ...
О INCE the Landes and Posner paper1 is really two separable analyses, I have focused my work on P... more О INCE the Landes and Posner paper1 is really two separable analyses, I have focused my work on Part II, which furthers the study of the efficiency of the common law. My intent has been to try to further this work rather than simply to find fault with it. Therefore while I will ...
This article appears in Kyklos as part of a special symposium edited by Ravi K. Roy and Arthur T.... more This article appears in Kyklos as part of a special symposium edited by Ravi K. Roy and Arthur T. Denzau that has been assembled to reflect on the contribution of Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North's seminal work on "Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and institutions."
Public administrators often go about their business blind to how their actions both affect, and a... more Public administrators often go about their business blind to how their actions both affect, and are affected by, the activities and processes of agents operating outside their own organizations. In truth, no single agency or department operates in a vacuum or in isolation of other organizational entities. According to world‐renowned leadership and management expert, W. Edwards Deming, a given agency's ability to perform its duties effectively is the result of a myriad of interdependent processes and operations with other organizations. Consequently, effective leaders must develop an understanding of how the departments they oversee both influence, and are at the same time influenced by the outside agencies and organizations upon whom they mutually depend. 1) We draw jointly on W. Edwards Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK) framework and Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North's (1994) New Institutional Economics (NIE)‐based work on Shared Mental Models (SMM) to e...
Public administrators often go about their business blind to how their actions both affect, and a... more Public administrators often go about their business blind to how their actions both affect, and are affected by, the activities and processes of agents operating outside their own organizations. In truth, no single agency or department operates in a vacuum or in isolation of other organizational entities. According to world‐renowned leadership and management expert, W. Edwards Deming, a given agency's ability to perform its duties effectively is the result of a myriad of interdependent processes and operations with other organizations. Consequently, effective leaders must develop an understanding of how the departments they oversee both influence, and are at the same time influenced by the outside agencies and organizations upon whom they mutually depend. 1) We draw jointly on W. Edwards Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK) framework and Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North's (1994) New Institutional Economics (NIE)‐based work on Shared Mental Models (SMM) to explore why inter‐agency cooperation tends to be limited in ‘traditional’ organizational environments. 2) Drawing on Denzau and North's SMM, we then suggest how inter‐organizational communication and cooperation can be facilitated via two means of learning—training and experiential. 3) We then apply concepts from Denzau and North's SMM to suggest a modified model of the Nash equilibrium used in game theory. This model is then used to operationalize the learning path to Deming's approach to ‘systems thinking’ (SoPK.) 4) Finally, we provide a real‐world example to illustrate the modified model.
Abstract: As a part of an overall study of large-scale communications satellite systems for educa... more Abstract: As a part of an overall study of large-scale communications satellite systems for education, an estimate was made of the amount of money available for media-technology for the next five to fifteen years. Information was gathered on public educational expenditures ...
Roy, R, Denzau, A and Willett, T 2007,'Introduction: Neoliberalism as a shared mental model&... more Roy, R, Denzau, A and Willett, T 2007,'Introduction: Neoliberalism as a shared mental model'in Roy, Ravi K, Denzau, Arthur T and Willett, Thomas D.(ed.) Neoliberalism: national and regional experiments with global ideas, Routledge, London UK, pp. 3-13.
Abstract: Introduces the notion of spending limitations into an analytical framework in which gov... more Abstract: Introduces the notion of spending limitations into an analytical framework in which government possesses a form of monopoly power that results from imperfections in the agenda formation process. Journal availability: see EA 511 898.(Author/IRT)
... 99/09 Alston, Julian, James A. Chalfant and Nicholas E Piggott "Advertising and Cons... more ... 99/09 Alston, Julian, James A. Chalfant and Nicholas E Piggott "Advertising and Consumer Welfare", May 1999. 99/08 Wittwer, Glyn and Kym Anderson, Impact of Tax Reform on the Australian Wine Industry: a CGE Analysis, May 1999. ...
О INCE the Landes and Posner paper1 is really two separable analyses, I have focused my work on P... more О INCE the Landes and Posner paper1 is really two separable analyses, I have focused my work on Part II, which furthers the study of the efficiency of the common law. My intent has been to try to further this work rather than simply to find fault with it. Therefore while I will ...
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