Carolina QuotesRoutine tasks... are well-established techniques which are sure to work, and these are applied to essentially similar raw materials, That is, there is little uncertainty about methods and little variety or change in the tasks that must be performed.
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 75
- work
- Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970
- year
- 1970
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- p. 75
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