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Peer reviewedWillmott, Hugh – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1981
Comments on an earlier attempt to create a unified theoretical framework for the analysis of organizational structure. Discusses the nature of social structure and the problems involved with various conceptions of structure. (Author/RW)
Descriptors: Group Structure, Interaction, Organizational Theories, Organizations (Groups)
Download full textScott, W. Richard; Meyer, John W. – 1982
Following recent thinking that sees organizations' structures as dependent on their environments, the authors consider characteristics of institutional sectors that affect the organizations arising within them. They first point out problems in present models relating organizations to their environments and discuss several "forerunners"…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Group Structure, Models, Organizational Theories
Peer reviewedLanyon, L. E.; Bowser, Timothy – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 1988
Described are the history of three German-heritage groups settled in Pennsylvania: the Solitary of Ephrata Commune, the Amish, and the Harmony Society. Suggested are pastoral, agrarian, and commercial agricultural analogs to life-support strategies of these groups respectively. Faustian agriculture emphasizing the connection of agriculture to…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Amish, Cultural Context, Futures (of Society)
