Organizational behavior and rational behavior

Abstract The original manuscript by Herbert A. Simon, titled “Organizational Behavior and Rational Behavior,” was never published in English but appeared in its French translation, “Comportement organisationnel et comportement rationnel,” in the August–September 1955 issue of Connaissance de l’Homme, a French Journal in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1954–1956). The Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Roger Souchère, was an architect and a prominent figure in the French Resistance during World War II. Here, we present the English manuscript containing Simon’s handwritten notations. Presumably written no later than the first half of 1955, this version—corrected by Simon himself—corresponds exactly to the published French translation.