Carolina QuotesNonroutine tasks:... There are few well-established techniques; there is little certainty about methods, or whether or not they will work. But it also means that there may be a variety of different task to perform, in the sense that raw materials are not standardized, or orders for customers ask for many different or custom-made products.
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
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- Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970
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- 1970
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- p. 75
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