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Peer reviewedLippitt, Mary E.; Mackenzie, Kenneth D. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1976
Authority-task problems are organizational problems created by inconsistencies between the task process system and both the authority system and the formal hierarchy of offices. A new theory is used to develop a model that predicts how an administrator responds to an authority-task problem. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Group Structure, Higher Education
Download full textBacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
This essay reviews major trends in methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of organizations since the mid-sixties and espouses the political analysis of organizations, a position representing a middle ground between comparative structuralism and the loosely coupled systems approach. This position emphasizes micropolitics as well as…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Smith, David Allan – 1976
Information on the development and testing of a model of spatial diffusion and adoption of an agricultural innovation is presented. The data concern the practice of artificial insemination of cattle in southern Sweden. The model is intended to predict the time at which adoption occurred in terms of the time at which the innovation became available…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Case Studies, Data Analysis
