. "RFAP_131_0541" . . . . . . . . "L\u2019influence de de H. Simon sur l\u2019\u00E9tude des organisations et sur la th\u00E9orie du"@fr . . "- The influence of Herbert Simon\u2019s administrative behavior on the study of organisations and public choice theory -. In 1978, Herbert A. Simon was awarded the Nobel economics prize mainlyon account of his book Administrative Behavior, which the Nobel Committee said had marked itsera. This article seeks to understand the reasons for this success. Thus Simon\u2019s work is set in thecontext of the historical development of the study of organisations and the decisions they take.When Simon wrote this book, the study of organisations and management was sharply dividedbetween prescriptive models on the one side, and descriptive models on the other side\u00A0:organisations were created by drawing on traditional descriptive models (scientific managementand organisation theory), although in fact these models\u2019recommendations were not reallyapplied. The original contribution of Administrative Behaviour perhaps lay in the fact that Simonperceived the organisation not as a machine for achieving concrete outputs (goods and services)but primarily as a machine for producing decisions. This provided the conceptual foundations forimportant later developments such as the introduction of information management systems. Evenif decision are of Aristotelian kind, they are sheer bounded rationality due to lack of informationand limited elaboration capacities of the human mind. Organisation help to reduce the complexedecision making process."@en . "En 1978 Herbert A. Simon obtint le prix Nobel d\u2019\u00E9conomie principalement pour son ouvrage Administrative Behavior qui est alors d\u00E9fini par le Comit\u00E9 du Nobel comme \u00AB\u00A0marquant son\u00E9poque\u00A0\u00BB. Cet article vise \u00E0 comprendre les raisons d\u2019un tel succ\u00E8s. Pour ce faire l\u2019\u0153uvre deSimon est resitu\u00E9e dans le cadre du d\u00E9veloppement historique des \u00E9tudes sur les organisations etles d\u00E9cisions qu\u2019elles prennent. Au moment o\u00F9 Simon propose sa contribution, les \u00E9tudesd\u2019organisation et de management s\u2019\u00E9taient fossilis\u00E9es dans une nette diff\u00E9renciation entreapproches prescriptives et approches descriptives\u00A0: les organisations \u00E9taient cr\u00E9\u00E9es en utilisant descontributions provenant des approches descriptives classiques ( scientific management et Organisationslehre) mais, en fait, les prescriptions de ces approches n\u2019\u00E9taient pas vraiment appliqu\u00E9es.La contribution originale d\u2019 Administrative Behavior provient peut-\u00EAtre du fait que Simon con\u00E7oitl\u2019organisation, non comme une machine \u00E0 r\u00E9aliser des outputs concrets (biens et services) mais,avant tout, comme une machine \u00E0 produire des d\u00E9cisions. C\u2019est sur cette base conceptuelle queprennent appui de riches d\u00E9veloppements successifs comme ceux sur les syst\u00E8mes de gestion del\u2019information. Les d\u00E9cisions sont de type aristot\u00E9lique bien qu\u2019elles soient caract\u00E9ris\u00E9es par le faitque leur rationalit\u00E9 est limit\u00E9e par le manque d\u2019informations et par les capacit\u00E9s limit\u00E9esd\u2019\u00E9laboration de l\u2019esprit humain. Les organisations servent \u00E0 r\u00E9duire la complexit\u00E9 d\u00E9cisionnelledes individus en tant que tels."@fr .