Carolina QuotesBy technology is meant the actions that an individual performs upon an object, with or without the aid of tools or mechanical devices, in order to make some change in that object. The object, or 'raw material', may be a living being, human or otherwise, a symbol, or an Inanimate object. People are raw materials in people-changing or people-processing organizations; symbols are materials in banks, advertising agencies, and some research organizations; the interactions of people are raw materials to be manipulated by administrators in organizations; boards of directors, committees, and councils are usually Involved with the changing or processing of symbols and human interactions, and so on.
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 195
- work
- "A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Organizations", 1967
- year
- 1967
- locator
- p. 195
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