Carolina QuotesChapter Five deals with the messiest problem of all— but the one to which all analytical roads should lead : the nature of organizational goals and the strategies used to achieve them.
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. xi: Preface
- work
- Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970
- year
- 1970
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