Reply to Perrow.

Langton, John

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ERIC Number: EJ323599

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1985

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Reply to Perrow.

Langton, John

Administrative Science Quarterly, v30 n2 p284-88 Jun 1985

Langton responds to Perrow's critique of his behavioral evolutionism by addressing four broad issues: the relationship between organizational evolution and environmental structure; the role of human creativity in organizational evolution; the relationship between social power and bureaucratization; and the relationship between organizational evolution and human progress. (TE)

Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Ecology, Economic Change, Economic Development, Evolution, Organizational Development, Organizational Theories, Social History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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