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James Gardner March January 15, — September 27, was an American political scientist , sociologist , and economist. A professor at Stanford University in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Education , he is best known for his research on organizations , [ 1 ] his jointly with Richard Cyert seminal work on A Behavioral Theory of the Firm , [ 2 ] and the organizational decision making model known as the Garbage Can Model.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in , [ 5 ] March received his B. He received his M. From to , he had served on the faculties of the Carnegie Institute of Technology as a senior research fellow and assistant professor, and later professor of industrial administration and psychology. He was also a professor of psychology and sociology. In , March moved to Stanford University.

He had also served as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution — and the founding director of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research Scancor — He interacted and communicated in many different forms as books, articles, interactive seminars, films and poetry. March was highly respected for his broad theoretical perspective which combined theories from psychology and other behavioural sciences.

As a core member of the Carnegie School , he collaborated with the cognitive psychologist Herbert A.