Scott, W. Richard.

Organizations : rational, natural, and open systems / W. Richard Scott. - 3rd ed. - Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentic-Hall, c1992 - xii, 414 p. ; 23 cm.

The subject is organizations -- Organizations as rational systems -- Organizations as natural systems -- Organizationals as open systems -- Combining the perspectives -- Conceptions of environments -- Creating organizations -- Boundary setting and spanning -- Sources of structural complexity : the technical core -- Sources of structural complexity : the peripheral components -- Goals, power, and control -- Organizational pathologies --Organizational effectiveness.

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Organizations
Organizational sociology

302.35 / S431Q 1992