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Peer reviewedIvancevich, John M. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Longitudinal Studies, Management Systems
Peer reviewedMohr, Lawrence B. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1971
The hypothesis that the effectiveness of an organization is determined by the consonance between its technology and its social structure is unsupported. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Organization, Participation
Peer reviewedCarpenter, Harrell H. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Job Satisfaction, Organization
Peer reviewedAstley, W. Graham – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1985
Administrative scientists superimpose analytic frameworks on their observations when trying to make knowledge meaningful. The generation of knowledge should be seen as an essentially interpretive and subjective activity. An awareness of this fact may encourage a view of scientific progress that is reinforced by the social context in which research…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Cognitive Structures, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedGeorge, Julius E.; Bishop, Lloyd K. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Individual Characteristics, Organization
Peer reviewedDarkenwald, Gordon G., Jr. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1971
Examines decisionmaking conflicts between professional and bureaucratic subsystems in colleges and universities. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Administrators
Peer reviewedKiggundu, Moses N.; And Others – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1983
Reviews 94 articles published between 1956 and 1981 on organizations in developing nations, examining the articles' methods, topics, geographic coverage, the author's institutional affiliation, and degree of fit between Western-based administrative theory and the data reported. Found degrees of fit strong for organizational tasks but weak for…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedHackman, J. Richard; Wageman, Ruth – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1995
Total quality management (TQM) has become a U.S. social movement. This commentary analyzes the writings of W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, and Kaoru Ishikawa to assess TQM's coherence, distinctiveness, and likely perseverance. Rhetoric is winning over substance, unrelated interventions are being herded under the TQM banner, and research is not…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Goal Orientation, Industry, Learning Processes
