THE ORIGIN OF THE GARGAGE CAN MODEL THEORY, BY JOHAN P. OLSEN

When I came to Irvine and followed this simple decisionmaking process of finding a new Dean, I started simply to observe some of these empirical Johan P. Olsen is a Norwegian political scientist best known for his seminal contributions to the study of decision making, author with James G. March and Michael Cohen of the garbage can model of decisionmaking. In this clip, he recounts how this idea comes to him.