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William Haynes Starbuck (born in Portland, Indiana, USA September 20, 1934) graduated from Harvard University (AB Physics, 1956), at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (MSc, 1959; Ph. D. 1964).〔 William Starbuck is an organizational scientist who held professorships in social relations (Johns Hopkins, 1966–67), sociology (Cornell, 1967–71), business administration (Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1974–84) and management at New York University.〔 William Starbuck contributed to the concepts of self-designing organizations, organizational design, environmental niches, organizational equilibriums made of antithetical processes, relativity through time of levels of aspiration as well as to behavioral research methods and epistemological status. He contributed to the field of management through prescriptive organizational design studies, relativity of managers' perception, interaction between rationality and ideologies, prescriptive yet experimental methods, crisis management through unlearning behavioral and cognitive patterns. He pictured as early as 1963 organizations that melt into contradictory and antithetical processes, bringing challenging views of organizational behaviors and equilibrium, while never being trapped in any doctrinal commitment. ==Early influences== With his B.A. in Physics from Harvard University, the young William H. Starbuck was aiming for a dissertation in applied mathematics. Richard M. Cyert, one of his professors, advised him rather to choose behavioral sciences. So started, under the wise auspices of Cyert and James March at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the career of W.H. Starbuck. William H. Starbuck's publishing started in 1958 at the age of 24, and his works includes more than one hundred articles and contributions to edited works. His research investigates decision making, organizational design, learning, cognition, interaction between rationality and ideologies, forecasting, crises, and scientific methods. He edited four books, including the Handbook of organizational design with Paul Nystrom (1981b). Starbuck’s contributions range from sociology to organizational behavior, from mathematics applied to social sciences to scientific methods. W.H. Starbuck published in Administrative Science Quarterly, which he edited aged 32, as well as in the American Journal of Sociology, Behavioral Science or Sociometry, etc. Starbuck did inter-disciplinary social science research. His works spreads from applied mathematics and (psychology ) (1963a, 1965a, 1965b, 1966, 1968a, 1973), () and organizational theory (1974, 1976a, 1976c, 1977, 1981a, 1983, etc.), information systems and man-machine interaction (1971b, 1971c, 1975, etc.) to enfold into a continuous introspection on scientific methods (1961a; 1968; 1974; 1981b – pp. 9–13; 1988a; 1988b – pp. 73–77; 1993 ; 1994). This permanent reflexive practice, and relentless interrogation of his own epistemological assumptions and values, is one of the key characteristics of Starbuck’s research. He has shown frankness (notably in its autobiographical essay, 1993), and provided prescription — for example, on managing crises (1978, 1984, 1989), and sometimes relativism, — embodied in astute wisdom and skepticism —, invoking for instance, organizations relying on antithetical processes that counterbalance previous prescriptions and neutralize their effects (1976b, 1976c, 1977, etc.). Hence, the founding pattern of Starbuck’s research cannot be encapsulated in a single recurrent theme. More consistent with the behaviorist school — which is more an attitude than a doctrine, more a philosophy and epistemology than a set of assumptions — Starbuck’s works are deeply rooted in a constant interrogation of concrete behaviors, mining sources of theoretical revolutions in singulars and exemplars. Human failures and weaknesses are particularly praised by Starbuck, who integer into his theoretical construction and his reflection on science his own life experiences (1993). Contrary to James March who did not build a theory out of his science, Starbuck does not hesitate to dispute his scientific deed by challenging his own trials, errors and unlearning. This approach fosters an intimacy with his readership, unveiling a lifetime theoretical construction where introspection, doubts and controversies endlessly intertwine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William H. Starbuck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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