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Ideas, Complexity, and Innovation.

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Blau, Judith R.; McKinley, William – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1979

This study focuses on the ideas that are articulated within architectural firms and how these ideas affect basic dimensions of organization: task and structural complexity and successful innovation, as measured by the firm's success in winning design awards. (Author)

Descriptors: Architecture, Correlation, Difficulty Level, Environmental Influences

Toward an Integration of Organization Research and Practice: A Contingency Study of Bureaucratic Control and Performance in Scientific Settings.

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Cheng, Joseph L. C.; McKinley, William – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1983

A study of 288 research units in 66 universities in Austria, Belgium, Finland, and Sweden found that bureaucratic control, through national science policy influence on research themes, affected organizational performance positively in physics and chemistry (where paradigms are highly developed), and negatively in biology and geology (with less…

Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Foreign Countries, Models, Organization Size (Groups)