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THE SUBJECT | 3 |
The Defining Characteristics | 32 |
Webers Theory of Bureaucracy | 40 |
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activities actors adaptive administrative approach argues associated attempt behavior Blau Bounded Rationality bureaucratic cathectic Chapter characteristics complex conception contingency theory coordination corporate corporatism cracy created criteria decision defined dependence dependency theory developed differentiation effects emphasize employed environmental example firms function ganizations goals groups hierarchy important increasing individual industrial inputs institutional environments interdependence interests labor level of analysis loosely coupled managers Marxist measures ment Meyer natural system perspective nizations normative open systems perspective operations orga organiza organization's organizational forms organizational structure outputs participants performance persons Pfeffer population ecology problems processes production programs rational-legal authority relations requirements roles scientific management Selznick Simon social society specific strategies struc studies survival system analysts system model system theorists task technical core theory tion tional tive total institutions trans transactions costs tural types of organizations uncertainty units value premises variables vary Weber workers
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| Title | Organizations: rational, natural, and open systems |
| Author | W. Richard Scott |
| Edition | 2, illustrated |
| Publisher | Prentice-Hall, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0136418201, 9780136418207 |
| Length | 377 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Management Business & Economics / Negotiating Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior Organization Organizational sociology Social Science / General |
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