Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decision as institution -- Deciding for responsibility and legitimation : alternative interpretations of organizational decision-making -- The irrationality of action and action rationality : decisions, ideologies, and organizational actions -- Implentating reforms -- Responsibility as an impediment to influence : the case of budgeting -- Industrial policy as implementation or legitimation -- Organized hypocrisy -- Ideas and actions : justification and hypocrisy as alternatives to control.

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