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Herbert Simon, through his critique of the simplistic rationalism underlying mainstream economics and functionalist or Taylorist approaches to management, paved the way for an experimental science of organizations. However, this cognitivist trend that he inaugurated—one based on the concepts of decision as information-processing, representation, computation, and cognitive sharing—has become a non-situated vision of organizations which is not particularly procedural or relational. It has now become a dominant, though often unspoken, reference in the study of organizations. The elaboration of a procedural and relational alternative requires the deconstruction of cognitivist concepts, based in particular on pragmatist theory.