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Child, John – Organization and Administrative Sciences, 1977
Available from: Comparative Administration Research Institute, Kent State University Press, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. (IRT)
Descriptors: Environment, Foreign Countries, Organization, Organization Size (Groups)
Peer reviewedChild, John – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1973
Concludes that, in the organizations studied, complexity cannot be satisfactorily predicted or fully understood without reference to the economics of scale, but that it is neither theoretically convincing nor statistically demonstrable that size in itself is the major determinant of formalization. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Comparative Analysis, Decentralization, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedChild, John – Human Relations, 1976
Illustrates how some bureaucratic elements are being strengthened at the expense of participation in organizational decisions by examining several sectors of British administration--industry, local and central government, development planning, and the health service. (Available from Plenum Publishing Corporation, 227 West 17 Street, New York, New…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Centralization, Citizen Participation, Decision Making
