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Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality
Organizational Environments Ritual and Rationality Author:John W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott, Brian Rowan, Terrence E. Deal Meyer and Scott are among the leading proponents of the environmental view of organizational theory, which sees organizational structures as primarily determined by environment as opposed to technology.The authors' view and their approach is demonstrated here in a collection of essays, that consider the place of organizations within a wider inst... more »itutional structure, paying particular attention to educational systems and medical services. With reference to America's devolved federal power structure and powerful autonomous bodies they conclude that centralization and organization processes are made to operate for the sake of efficiency.« less