The Distribution of Authority in Formal Organizations

by Gene W. Dalton, Abraham Zaleznik, Louis B. Barnes

This study relates two issues of increasing importance to management: authority and change. It also combines two types of research design and methodology: a field experiment and a "natural" experiment with an emphasis on the control and measurement of variables. The field experiment is a case study of the impact and developing effects of a series of changes in organizational structure at the research and development center of a large U.S. corporation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262540215
• ISBN13: 9780262540216
• Release Date: July 1973
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 240 Pages