《管理行为》是组织管理理论研究中重要的经典著作,作者赫伯特·西蒙因为此书及其在组织理论研究中的贡献获得了1978年的诺贝尔奖。本书初版于1947年.至今已有50余年的历史,但仍被组织理论研究者不断引用,也是新古典组织理论的代表性成果。一般而言,如果把德国社会学家马克思·韦伯的官僚制理论作为组织理论的开端,组织理论经历了三个阶段:第一阶段是19世纪末到20世纪初的古典组 Herbert Simon was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for his book and his contribution to the study of organizational theory. The book was first published in 1947. It has been more than 50 years old, but it is still being cited by the organization’s theoretical researchers and is also the representative achievement of neo-classical organization theory. Generally speaking, if we take the bureaucratic theory of German social scientist Max Weber as the starting point of organizational theory, organizational theory goes through three stages: the first phase is the classical group from the late 19th century to the early 20th century